Commentary / World May 25, 2022

Europe’s soft-power problem

What is most off-putting is the way that Europeans tend to universalize their own experience, often assuming that what is right for them is right for others.

Commentary / World Jan 13, 2022

Beijing becomes a rising star in the global rule-maker race

In the coming decades, the biggest global threat will not be China the rule-breaker, but China the rule-maker.

Commentary / World Dec 30, 2021

In an ‘age of unpeace,’ civilians become new pawns of war

While migration has become a political football in Western Europe, it has been fully weaponized in an obscure strip of land between Belarus and Poland.

Commentary / World Nov 3, 2021

Why the COP26 climate summit will fail

From Brazil and Australia to China and the U.S., countries are trying to game climate negotiations in order to shift the costs of adaptation onto others.

Commentary / World Oct 6, 2021

The false promise of AUKUS

AUKUS comes hot on the heels of the U.S.' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, and thus is being held up as evidence that the Biden administration is competent on foreign policy.

Commentary / World Sep 5, 2021

The end of the 'forever war' in Afghanistan will not bring peace

Many in the West who attack Joe Biden’s Afghanistan policy are in fact upset about the return of brutal geopolitical competition.

Commentary / World Jul 28, 2021

Germany’s patriotism paradox

As German public sentiment in the EU collapses, its leaders could come under public pressure to go it alone on policies ranging from vaccine procurement, migration, trade and energy.

Commentary / World Apr 4, 2021

The new China shock

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s new strategy centers on the concept of “dual circulation.” Behind the technical-sounding phrase lies an idea that could change the global economic order.