The political shock of a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in 1999 brought the AKP to power. The current government’s mishandling of this earthquake may now lead to Erdogan’s downfall in the elections anticipated later this year.
Join us online for a conversation between Katherine Blunt, author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid, and Noah J. Gordon, acting co-director of Carnegie's Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program.
Andrew S. Weiss, former NSC Russia expert and current VP of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, takes on the person and psychology of Vladimir Putin in a new way.
Whatever America was left would have a rump military. As the most populous state, California supplies the largest number of U.S. service members, but Texas and other Southern states provide the bulk of the military force. The South hosts a disproportionate number of bases. Who would get what?
More Asian Americans are turning out to vote than ever before, but to what extent do they participate in other civic and political activities? A survey of Asian Americans in California provides some answers.
With Gareth Smyth’s death, the Middle East has lost one of its most penetrating foreign journalists.
Previously, one word from the presidential administration or the government was enough to quash dispute within the power vertical. Now they too are mere participants in discussions, leading to administrative chaos.
The inherent submission of the Russian people to their political leadership has its roots in fear, generational trauma, and extreme socioeconomic dependency on the state.
Yascha Mounk and Rachel Kleinfeld discuss the threats to American democracy.
The earthquake of February 6 has affected the path of Turkish-Syrian relations in multiple ways.