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Time to End Ethiopia’s Unwinnable Civil War (Crisis Group)

Federal forces have recorded gains in recent weeks but Ethiopia’s brutal civil war may well grind on without a winner. Addis Ababa must let...

Mali: Enabling Dialogue with the Jihadist Coalition JNIM (Crisis Group)

Authorities in Mali seem to be considering negotiations with Jamaat Nusratul Islam wal-Muslimin, the country’s largest Islamist insurgency. Pursuing talks will be a tall...

AUKUS and Japan (Nobukatsu Kanehara, JIIA)

The sudden announcement of AUKUS's establishment was for the most part greeted favorably by Japan, although France was furious that a seventy billion USD...

Supply Chains Survived COVID-19 (Fukunari Kimura, JIIA)

Despite widely-shared concern about their fragility, supply chains survived the COVID-19 shocks. In particular, the sophisticated international production networks (IPNs) in East Asia...

Japan’s foreign and national security policy under Kishida: challenges and opportunities (Yuki Tatsumi, JIIA)

Prime Minister Kishida intends to build on his predecessor's foreign policy efforts over the last nine years, to include advocating the Free and...

The external dimensions of India-Russia relations (Amb P S Raghavan, VIF)

In the two decades since India and Russia declared a new strategic partnership, the global geopolitical landscape has undergone major transformations. While the partnership...

The Geopolitics of Energy Transition: A Guide for Policymakers, Executives, and Investors (Alexis A. Crows, Samir Saran, ORF)

As the price of natural gas reached record highs in the UK and Europe—trading at the equivalent of $200 per barrel of oil, and as...

China’s tech sector eyes advances in 2022 with more policy support, amid US sanctions (Xie Jun, Global Times)

As the US continues to crack down on a growing list of Chinese technology companies in areas such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI) and...

Doubling down on ‘stability’ sets stage for quality growth (Global Times)

China's tone-setting Central Economic Work Conference came to a close on Friday in Beijing, in which top officials sent a clear signal that stabilizing...

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