Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The US record on humanitarian intervention to stop or prevent mass killings is consistent with that of the international community. Nations naturally follow their own interests; even in this globalized world, mass killings happen in faraway places and generally don't involve vital US interests.
But criticism comes in all shades and nuances. The case of China is unique. Its media supports Russia’s entire case for the "special military operation" and even relays Russian propaganda and fake news.
The EU and NATO—and their efforts to support Ukraine—would immediately feel the effects.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has significant economic, geopolitical, and social implications that reach African countries, too. Without swift action to shore up African economies, debt defaults, hunger, and instability could ensue.
It has immersed itself in an anti-utopian delusion.
Once atrocities begin, sanctions, tough rhetoric or political isolation will not work. If the international community wants to stop mass killings, use of force is the only effective action.
A collection of perspectives on NATO, the decision to proceed with its enlargement, and its impact on European and global security.
Both Russia and China have evolved a form of personalistic authoritarianism that gives untrammeled authority to a single individual at the top. There are very few checks on that individual’s power, and no easy way of the system reversing course in the face of evident failure.
The last time Russian forces tried to topple an internationally recognized government it was in a country far from Eastern Europe and on a far smaller scale than today’s war in Ukraine.
For the moment, the regime has Russian public opinion on its side, and it may continue to delude itself, just as it is deluding the people, that it can turn Russia into a self-sufficient, self-isolating, expansionist rogue state, based on the idea of Russian superiority over other nations.
Earlier this month, the lead U.N. representative for Yemen announced a two-month cease-fire, the first major breakthrough since 2015 in the conflict between the Houthi rebels and Iran on the one side and the Yemeni government and its Gulf backers on the other.
A prolonged state of war in Ukraine is Ankara’s biggest nightmare and unfortunately, an increasing likelihood. Turkish Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin recently made the latter point by stating that the war in Ukraine is deepening and we are at the beginning of a new cold war that will have long lasting implications.
On April 10, Imran Khan’s three-plus years as prime minister of Pakistan came to an unceremonious end. His government fell after losing a no-confidence vote, a standard procedural tool in parliamentary democracies for ousting prime ministers who have lost their majority in the legislature.
Our research suggests that in a free and fair referendum held throughout the Donbas — under international supervision and with impartial, transparent and inclusive voting rules that allowed those displaced since 2014 to vote — the majority would be likely to vote to remain in Ukraine.
The ubiquity of artificial intelligence systems in modern organizations all but guarantees that regulators or the parties they oversee will make use of learning algorithms or novel techniques to analyze data in the process of defining, implementing, or complying with regulatory requirements.
One of Russia's main military objectives in the ongoing war in Ukraine is to either make the Donbas independent or to annex it. However, if a free and fair referendum were to held in the area, the majority of those living in the two regions would be likely to vote to remain in Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine calls for more caution, not less.
Based on a comprehensive review of publicly available sources, this paper examines China’s mainstream thinking and general practice on arms control verification.
Algeria and Egypt pressed China’s telecom national champion Huawei for more value-added manufacturing and technology transfers. The company responded, but it ultimately improved its brand image without engaging in meaningful capacity building.
It will take a while for China to digest this meeting and the fact that the West appears united. But a growing negative European sentiment vis-a-vis China (including in business circles, in the media, and among certain politicians) might start to hurt Chinese interests in Europe.