Diplomacy & International Relations

US-Iran: What is next? (David Hale – Middle East Institute)

While most international media are focused on what will happen today or this week between America and Iran, the real story is much bigger—the...

Pezeshkian’s overtures: Cosmetic change or real shift in power? (Alex Vatanka – Middle East Africa)

Where is Ali Khamenei? That is the question on the minds of many Iranians and foreign observers in the aftermath of the 12-day war...

Press Briefing: A Fragile Ceasefire? (Middle East Institute)

MEI hosted a virtual briefing on Wednesday, June 25, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and...

NATO allies agreed to a 5 percent defense spending target in a low-drama summit. Now what? (Atlantic Council)

In Dutch, haag, from which The Hague gets its name, means hedge. It’s perhaps fitting, then, that when NATO leaders met in The Hague...

PLA Purges Provide Opening for Xi’s Rivals (Brandon Tran, Eric Liu, Gerui Zhang – The Jamestown Foundation)

New evidence suggests that a faction within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aligned with former president Hu Jintao and former premier Wen Jiabao could...

Russia Future Watch – II. Decolonization for Security: Ukraine’s Strategic Policy Toward Indigenous Peoples Colonized by Russia (Yaroslav Yurchyshyn – The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia’s full-scale invasion against Ukraine has revealed that the Russian Federation is not a true federation but an empire sustained by repression, colonization, and...

Moscow’s Nationality Policy to Promote Ethnic Russians and Counter Threats From Others (Paul Globe – The Jamestown Foundation)

(Paul Globe - The Jamestown Foundation) The newly released draft of Moscow’s new nationality policy strategy document devotes far more attention to ethnic Russians...

NATO summit overshadowed by cyber threats (DigWatch)

NATO’s 76th summit opened in The Hague amid rising tensions in Europe and the Middle East, overshadowed by conflict and cyber threats. Leaders gathered...

Pashinyan Escalates Tensions With Armenian Apostolic Church (Onnik James Krikorian – Jamestown Foundation)

Armenia faces a deepening power struggle as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan openly attacks Catholicos Karekin II, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, intensifying...

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