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Ukrainian Anti-Oligarch Law Inadvertently Shines Spotlight on Russian-Linked Members of Presidential Entourage (Mykola Vorobiov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 22, someone fired shots at the car of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first aide, Serhiy Shefir. The attack unfolded near the village...

Georgian Government Arrests Former President Saakashvili Upon His Return From Exile (Giorgi Menabde, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 1, one day before Georgia held local elections, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated that the police had arrested former president Mikhail Saakashvili...

Russia’s Four Diplomatic Encounters and a Summit (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

In late September, while President Joseph Biden struggled with a multitude of domestic issues and President Vladimir Putin sought opportunities to score points on...

The role of self-help in Japanese disaster management post-3.11 (Justin Whitney, East Asia Forum)

In the aftermath of the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power disaster (known as 3.11), Japan’s overwhelmed bureaucrats realised that disaster management...

A new logic of cooperation for Japan–South Korea relations (Lauren Richardson, East Asia Forum)

The Japan–South Korea relationship has been in crisis for the past two years. 2019 was widely cited as the lowest ebb in bilateral relations since the...

Will new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida bring change to Japan? (Mireya Solís and Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

Fumio Kishida was elected as Japan’s new prime minister after former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga lost public support and political backing over his handling...

Aligning child welfare with the relational connectedness of ICWA (Jessica Saniguq Ullrich and Jerreed D. Ivanich, Brookings)

As hundreds of unmarked graves of Indigenous youth are discovered in Canada and the United States, the world is made to confront an ugly history, a...

Online behavioral advertising can be discriminatory, so what’s the plan to fix this? (Nicol Turner Lee, Brookings)

Social media companies like Facebook are being called out on the racial discrimination appearing in and resulting from their machine-learning algorithms. Advertising platforms use...

Fulton County, Georgia’s Trump Investigation. An Analysis of the Reported Facts and Applicable Law (Norman Eisen, Joshua Matz, Donald Ayer, Gwen Keyes Fleming, Colby...

On Saturday, January 2, 2021, at around 3:00 p.m., former President Donald J. Trump placed a call to Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad...

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