Words Matter: Rhetoric and the Iran Nuclear Deal
It’s not the decision to decertify that will doom the Iran nuclear deal, but the rhetoric that comes with it.
China Securing Access to Middle East Oil
Dubai recently announced its partnership with China in the creation of a billion dollar investment fund. Saudi Arabia recently announced its commitment to double oil exports to China by 2010.
Using Digital Democracy to Energize Thailand
A wealth of youthful activism is bubbling under the surface of Thailand’s establishment politics, and digitization remains the best way to give it a voice.
China’s Xi Pushes New Anti-Corruption Agency
The proposed National Supervision Commission will widen President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign and supplant the country’s legal system in the process.
Bi-Oceanic Railway Upping the Ante in China-Latin America Cooperation
A look at the ambitious bi-oceanic railway project agreed between China, Peru, and Brazil, which intends to boost trade and economic development by linking Brazil’s Atlantic coast with Peruvian ports on the Pacific.
Blame Belgium! How France Ignores Its Homegrown Terror Problem
Blaming Belgium won't change the fact that France has a homegrown terrorism problem.
America, Meet ‘Berlustrump’
The similarities between Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi reflect a rising wave of populism in Western democracy – one that could sweep Donald Trump into power.
Western Military Power to Wane
The sovereign debt crisis in Europe, and soon America, will exert tremendous pressure on national defense budgets, resulting in a re-alignment of global military power from West to East.
The Undeniable Folly of the Iran Nuclear Deal
Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan’s own policies were the height of ‘folly.’
Germany’s Geopolitics at a Crossroads
Can Germany continue its historical balancing act between East and West amid growing bifurcation of the global system?