Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization will likely become less functional and coherent as the group gets bigger. Form will start to drive function, and the group will begin to search for a purpose.
Is it time to think of China less as a trading partner and more as a threat?
Bill Burns is the former deputy Secretary of State and former U.S. Ambassador to both Russia and Jordan. Burns discussed his career in government and his current role as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
As the armed conflict escalates in the Donbas, the West finds that it has run out of ideas on how to help settle the Ukraine crisis.
Social media can both play a role in the dispersion of power and is itself a consequence of that dispersion.
With tensions between the West and Russia running high over Ukraine, China and Japan still wrangling over the Diaoyu islands, and America and China fighting over the same old stuff, it’s easy to be cynical about APEC. But this year’s summit seemed to accomplish quite a lot.
At various turns in the crisis in Ukraine, when it looked like Russia’s status on the ropes, Putin has chosen to escalate the situation.
From the perspective of Putin and his associates, Ukraine is a red line and the West, in the form of NATO, was crossing it.
A second Cold War is emerging because of the mistakes that were made by both Russia and the West at the end of the first Cold War and during the inter-Cold War period.
There is a mismatch of expectations between America and Iran in terms of what a comprehensive deal should look like. The United States expects Iran to drive its nuclear program further in reverse, while Iran expects America to lift all of the sanctions.