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Kissinger was right: statesmanship in the digital age
Treston Wheat, Global Security Review The former Secretary of State offers an essential guide for both technologists and policymakers-...
Australia's diplomatic spat with China over coronavirus investigation approaches farce
Stephen Dziedzic, ABC Australia An extraordinary diplomatic dispute between Australia and China over the COVID-19 outbreak has laid bare...
Taiwan's Coronavirus Moment — And Delicate Balancing Act
John Ruwitch, NPR An analysis of Taiwan's response to COVID-19 and its geopolitical implications. Read the full article HERE #WHO #Taiwan...
Identity and relationship-building in China’s Arctic diplomacy
Marc Lateigne, The Arctic Institute China’s Arctic engagement has increased considerably during the past decade, which has not only...
China’s protest of India’s revised FDI Policy: A process of de-globalisation begins opine experts
Huma Siddiqui, Financial Express Anticipating greater control of Chinese investors or eventual hostile takeover, the government of India...
U.S. Adversaries Are Accelerating, Coordinating Coronavirus Disinformation, Report Says
Jessica Donati, Wall Street Journal An echo chamber fed by China, Russia, and Iran feeds denigrating information about the U.S.,...
Too much oil: How a barrel came to be worth less than nothing
Stanley Reed and Clifford Krauss, New York Times One oil price went negative on Monday, signaling that there is no place to store all the...
America, China and saving the WHO
Kevin Rudd, The Economist The crisis exposes realities for what they are. The uncomfortable truth about the current coronavirus crisis is...
Why Chinese Embassies Have Embraced Aggressive Diplomacy
James Palmer, Foreign Policy Beijing is trying to maintain its narrative as diplomats spread misinformation about the rest of the world’s...
A ‘my country first’ contagion is threatening Europe
Sigmar Gabriel, CNA We are currently witnessing the consequences of fair-weather multilateralism: European and international cooperation...
A Most Lonely Union
Henry Farrel, Foreign Policy In September 2019, two months before officially taking office, the new European Commission president was...
Zoom climate diplomacy: ‘Technology doesn’t help build trust’
Chloé Farand, Climate Change News The coronavirus pandemic has pushed climate diplomacy online, greening much of UN Climate Change’s...
The Western Balkans in Times of the Global Pandemic
Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group, Policy Brief In its emergency response, the EU needs to include all Western Balkans countries in...
Lesson No 1 from pandemic – we’re all interdependent
Vesko Garcevic, BalkanInsight The coronavirus outbreak is a wake-up reminder to all of us that states can’t deal with global challenges...
Narendra Modi’s Sisyphean Quest for Global Coronavirus Cooperation
Michael Kugelman, Foreign Policy On March 13, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted about convening with the members of the South...
EU diplomats give green light to Albania and North Macedonia
EUObserver EU states' ambassadors have provisionally agreed to open accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia, ending months of...
The Mandera Triangle Crisis: Somalia and Kenya Diplomatic Faceoff
Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy, Modern Diplomacy While the COVID-19 was morphing from an epidemic into a catastrophic global pandemic,...
India’s growing engagement with the South Caucasus
Emil Avdaliani, Modern Diplomacy Throughout decades the South Caucasus has played a relatively minor role in India’s foreign policy....
Urgent need for multilateral action and global leadership
Chan Heng Chee, The Straits Times The pandemic has brought home three hard truths about the impact of megatrends that have been...
The Coronavirus Is Killing Globalization as We Know It
Philippe Legrain, Foreign Policy As late as the end of February, most wrongly assumed that it would have only a brief, limited,...
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