Tbilisi is hoping to progress toward European integration while resisting genuine reform. In deliberating Georgia’s possible EU membership, Brussels faces an uncomfortable choice between geopolitical calculus and adherence to its own democratization criteria.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia actively borrowed Western—primarily European—legal and bureaucratic practices. Now that the European path appears to be closed off entirely, the Middle East is fast emerging as an alternative route.
Over the past five years, Congress has achieved a great deal for U.S. national security in its debate of and legislation on China, but there is a risk of overshooting a well-reasoned policy response and generating costly escalation.
Digital infrastructure projects in Brazil are helping bridge the access gap, connecting people, businesses, and the government in unprecedented ways.
Shared support for Hamas likely means better diplomatic relations between Moscow and Ankara. But any warming of ties will only be situational.
The increasing ubiquity of encryption as a tool for protecting communication has led to increasing calls for developing technical solutions to weaken it for law enforcement and national security purposes. This paper examines different solutions that have been proposed in the context of India’s specific imperatives for seeking access to encrypted communications.
The summit is a chance for Californians to consider their place in the world.
Southeast Asian capitals would prefer that the U.S. and PRC manage their relationship, if not get along.
Just the appearance of a body like the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly after the elections will legitimize conversations about succession within the ruling elite.
The ‘mosquito navy’ is successfully punching above its weight in the Black Sea.
Author Sergei Chuprinin teases out historical parallels in his book, Thaw: Characters, which explores the relative freedoms enjoyed under the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
The G7 was created fifty years ago in a different geopolitical era. Now is the moment to expand the core group.
Driven to action by the rapid advancements in AI, summit delegates began to map the long road to balancing risk management with innovation in machine learning.
From COVID-19 misinformation to authoritarian crackdowns on democratic protests or hybrid warfare involving information manipulation, the negative impacts that crises have on the information environment can be challenging to reverse, threatening the physical safety of civilians and the democratic stability of societies.
These trends, including the rise of China as an electric vehicle exporter and the recent innovations in battery chemistry, could emerge as drivers of change over the next decade.
As Indonesia joins the ranks of Asia’s rising powers, it will avoid alignment with either the United States or China.
MexLucky Politika podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Dr. Hanna Notte, director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and a senior non-resident scholar at CSIS, to discuss Russia's position on the conflict in the Middle East.
In matters ranging from trade, economy, and climate change to entertainment and education, California and South Korea are uniquely situated for strong collaboration to help both partners adapt to the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Ukraine is reluctant to risk its hard-earned ties with the Global South, but it certainly cannot afford to lose irreplaceable Western assistance, leaving Kyiv with very little room for maneuver.
As the world undergoes a new round of fragmentation and major power rivalry that includes the advancing of divergent visions of global order, Singapore is discovering that its interests are increasingly being pulled in different directions.
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