It is hard to understand the smoldering aggressiveness that Vladimir Putin embodies unless one understands the curious combination of hope and humiliation that followed the end of communism and the deprivation that Russians felt in the 1990s.
A conversation on the art and science of communication and its role in U.S. foreign policy.
The Bangladesh crisis makes clear that no subcontinental crisis is ever just a subcontinental affair. There will invariably be wider geopolitical forces which will impinge on the way that the subcontinent acts.
After the end of the Cold War, the U.S. enjoyed a position of unrivaled strength. But as it pulls back from the institutions and alliances that it helped build for decades, vacuums create opportunities for adversaries.
A conversation about American diplomacy in the age of Trump.
America’s diplomatic drift is not an abstract problem. It comes at a real cost, as the United States squanders its alliances and ability to build coalitions at a time when they are more important than ever.
American diplomacy has been adrift through much of the post-Cold War period. President Trump has accelerated that drift and made it infinitely worse.
The delay of elections could push Algerians to continue their peaceful protests.
The state-run media in Algeria was given clear instructions not to cover the protests against Bouteflika.
President Trump’s diplomacy of narcissism led to the failed summit in Hanoi.