Diplomacy & Crisis News

A Bangkok visit by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing reinforced the two countries’ ties.

Tehran’s proxy risks pushing a newly consolidated Saudi Arabia into an all-out ground war.

Why high productivity could still lead to a crash.

The perverse incentives for presidents to use military force.

What’s behind the defense pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.

The technology is far less divisive than in the United States.

President Abelardo de la Espriella took office mere days before a major earthquake struck the country.

Adopting a new mindset for peacebuilding on the peninsula requires preserving what works while targeting individual issues that remain unresolved. 

The latest gathering of Central Asian leaders, plus Azerbaijan’s president, saw the signing of a declaration, but the “C5” have not quite become a “C6.”

Tehran has long called for greater cooperation among Muslim states. The Mecca pact is not what it had in mind.

Mark Carney’s vision has gone unrealized, but that doesn’t mean states should give up.

Changing an alphabet involves more than just replacing letters; it requires a profound transformation of the state’s institutional and cultural fabric.

The manga-turned-anime serves as an important pop cultural piece in understanding Japan’s place in the world, most specifically its historic role with Russia and their Northeast Asian borderlands. 

The Trump administration is following in the footsteps of authoritarian regimes by weaponizing global banking rules against its enemies.

Seldom before has the U.S. government intervened so actively in the economy.

Beijing’s choice moves Washington’s leverage from tariffs to currency.

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The waters east of Taiwan sit within a strategically integrated maritime space stretching from Northeast Asia, through Micronesia and Melanesia, to Polynesia. 

Myanmar’s latest pledge to repatriate 300,000 Rohingya refugees cannot be viewed as a credible commitment. It’s yet another iteration of a well-established diplomatic pattern. 

Erosion of U.S. influence could, in the long run, impact arms sales, the negotiation of military basing rights, and the management of regional crises.