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Age of Uneasy Peace: Foreign Affairs

February 16, 2019
US Vice President Mike Pence’s 2018 speech at the Hudson Institute, stopping short at inaugurating a new Cold War, bluntly enumerated China’s encroachment on US interests. His words illustrated the Trump administration’s perception of the rising power in the East, one determined to replace the...

Russia, FIFA and the Power of Sport

June 12, 2018
Mega sporting events like the Olympics or the World Cup attract global attention to host countries as well as the athletes. Russia, hosting the World Cup through mid-July, views such events as “a way to prove the world it is a guardian of universal norms,” writes Michal Romanowski, Eurasian expert...

Only China Can Do It?

May 19, 2020
The Chinese Communist Party relies on tone-setting exercises, designed to build appreciation for the authoritarian system and cast doubt on democratic systems. The country’s leaders seek international praise for their handling of the pandemic and reject criticism for delayed reporting and...

Electoral Tsunami for Malaysia

May 22, 2018
Malaysians and overseas observers tentatively welcome election results that have ended 60 years of power for United Malays National Organization, a party increasingly associated with corruption and erosion of the rule of law. But worries are not far behind about “a disparate four-party coalition...

Climate Change Brings Moral Change

July 14, 2015
The world’s major religions urge both respect for nature’s power and gratitude for Earth’s bounty. No one should have been surprised by the encyclical of Pope Francis, rallying believers and non-believers in a global call: “The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring...

US Retreats From Syria and the Middle East

November 5, 2019
By withdrawing troops, the Trump administration quickly reset standing for players in Syria’s civil war. That move displaced Kurdish-dominated Syrian Defense Forces, as US allies in the fight against the Islamic State, and boosted Turkey’s claims to the border region. The greatest beneficiary may...

China’s Tianxia: Do All Under Heaven Need One Arbiter?

October 30, 2014
Some Chinese scholars point to the 5th century BC as possible model that “under a virtuous China one could return to the golden age,” explains political science professor June Teufel Dreyer in her excerpt from a longer paper to be published by The Journal of Contemporary China. As suggested by...

Wrong-Way Bets on Oil

January 13, 2015
Nations are wary about fast-dropping oil prices and just how long those prices could stay low. Some nations are lured into ongoing dependence on fossil fuels while others reduce consumer subsidies and redirect funds into infrastructure development. Will Hickey, associate professor at Linton Global...
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