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July 20, 2020

A financial crisis has swept the globe, creating socio-economic tensions and political divisions that divert governments’ attention from important global issues. In the preceding years of chaos, flashpoints emerged in Africa and Asia that pitted revisionists, allies and institutions against one another. Japan installed a puppet government in Manchuria in 1931 before fully invading the […]

Daily Memo: Iranian Protests Are Back

July 17, 2020

Welcome back, Iranian protests. After a several-month hiatus due largely to the coronavirus outbreak, protests have broken out again in Iran, this time in...

The Geopolitical Importance of the WHO

July 17, 2020

In 1958, the Soviet Union proposed a global effort to eradicate smallpox, a disease that kills roughly a third of those it infects, including...

Daily Memo: Russian Protests, Egypt’s Options

July 16, 2020

Russian protests. Unauthorized protests took place in St. Petersburg and Moscow on Wednesday against constitutional amendments that were approved in a referendum earlier this...

Daily Memo: Clashes in the Caucasus, Pre-election Protests in Belarus

July 15, 2020

Clashes in the Caucasus. Azerbaijan said it destroyed an Armenian military facility along the Azerbaijan-Armenia border as cross-border shelling, which began on July 12...

Moscow Under Stress on Its Periphery

July 15, 2020

Two weeks ago, Russia concluded a constitutional referendum meant to shore up the power of the Kremlin and especially of Vladimir Putin. Under the...

Daily Memo: Beijing’s South China Sea Claims, Europe’s Posture Toward Russia

July 14, 2020

Washington rejects Beijing's claims. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expanded the U.S. condemnation of China’s expansion in the South China Sea,...

The Truth About the US-China Thucydides Trap

July 14, 2020

We remember Thucydides as a historian thanks to his documentation of the Peloponnesian War, but we often forget that he was also a philosopher....

Daily Memo: Protests in Eastern Russia, Clashes in Azerbaijan

July 13, 2020

Russian protests. Protests broke out in Russia’s Far Eastern territory of Khabarovsk after Gov. Sergei Furgal was arrested and accused of organizing the murders...

Turkey’s Defense Industry and the Projection of Regional Power

July 13, 2020

Turkey’s relations with the West have never been smooth, not even when it adopted secularism and became a member of NATO. This has had...

Daily Memo: A Japan-Russia Peace Treaty, a New EU Budget

July 10, 2020

Japan and Russia talk peace. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Russia has presented Japan with a conceptual framework for a World...

Europe Is Still Waiting for a Recovery Fund Breakthrough

July 10, 2020

Earlier this month, the European Commission released its midyear assessment of the state of European economies. The so-called summer interim report was a lot...

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