Uncategorized

Australia must learn to navigate the economic realities of China relations (James Laurenceson, East Asia Forum)

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg warned in September that Australia was on the ‘frontline’ of ‘strategic competition’ between the United States and China. ‘Exhibit A’ was the...

Around the halls: Built environment issues that could define 2022 (Dr. Newsha K. Ajami, Alex Berke, Rushaine Goulbourne, Noah Kazis, Elizabeth Kneebone, Anika Singh...

For the nation’s infrastructure and built environment, 2021 felt like a year of extremes. Extreme weather events such as Hurricane Ida, western wildfires, and...

Germany holds the key to deterring Russian moves against Ukraine (Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings)

Thirty years after the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars, the Western alliance is once more facing the possibility of a major armed conflict at...

Russia’s draft agreements with NATO and the United States: Intended for rejection? (Steven Pifer, Brookings)

Russia maintains the world’s largest nuclear arsenal and the most powerful conventional military forces in Europe. Russian military units currently are deployed — uninvited...

Biden can still salvage his Build Back Better bill if he settles for a piece by piece strategy (Elaine Kamarck, Brookings)

When Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) withdrew support for President Biden’s signature Build Back Better legislation, he not only killed hopes for its passage and...

Russia-US escalation: How did we get here? (Leonid Ragozin, Al Jazeera)

Over the past year, tensions between Russia on one side and Ukraine and the West on the other, have flared, fuelling fears of another...

Guatemala massacre victims’ community defies state of siege (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of Indigenous people defied a state of siege on Tuesday and blocked a major road in Guatemala’s west for the second successive day, demanding the...

Mexico’s lithium and the global race to lock in ‘white gold’ (Ann Deslandes, Al Jazeera)

This year’s political moves surrounding Mexico’s lithium reserves have tested the limits of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) pledges to keep the country’s...

Mexico says refugee requests tripled in 2021 (Al Jazeera)

Applications for refugee status in Mexico have roughly tripled this year compared with 2020, the government has said, in the face of a significant...

Latest articles