Monday Memo | Healthcare Horrors in the Middle East, GOP Debates Foreign Policy, and NYC’s Migrant Shelter Woes
World In the Line of Fire: Hospitals and Lives at Risk The current casualty count reports 1,405 dead and 5,600...
How is the rise of China reshaping the regional order in South Asia?
South Asia is the geopolitical playground for the competing interests of two major powers, India and China. China’s economic and...
A Climate Perspective: Europe’s De-risking Strategy in Anticipation of a Taiwan Crisis
Geopolitical conflicts, from World War II to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, have always affected energy supplies, natural resource markets, and...
This Is How Football Became a Tool of Modern Imperialism
More than 150 years after the abolition of slavery, human trafficking persists—just in a different form. Two centuries later, European...
Tariffs Do Not a Sanction Make: IEEPA, Congress, and the Limits of Executive Power
Few powers are more jealously guarded by the Constitution than the power to tax, and for good reason. The Framers...
Nationalism and Empire in China: World War I
World War I was not merely a conflict over colonial possessions; it was a global contest between empires governed by...
The 80th General Assembly will be an Inflection Point for the UN
From Fidel Castro’s four-hour anti-Capitalist tirade in 1960, to Muammar el-Qaddafi’s bizarre 2009 defense of Somali piracy, the United Nations...
Richard Gowan (Crisis Group): “Morale at the UN is below zero”
The United Nations has faced an existential crisis over the past year. In a world of increased conflicts and humanitarian...
What the Backlash Against Mamdani Reveals About Islamophobic Panic
Zohran Mamdani’s stunning upset has sparked an intense wave of political outrage, from politicians predicting another 9/11 to referring to...
The Snap That Shook Seoul: Tracking the Tremors of the South Korean Election
On June 3, 2025, South Koreans went to the polls in the throes of a political whiplash. Just weeks after...
DeepSeek Claims to Be a Sustainable AI Tool. But Is It Really?
Have you ever considered the sustainability implications of your artificial intelligence use? If you’re one of the 99% of Americans...
Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Jihadist Past Points to a Russian Future for Syria Unless Europe Acts
The former leader of a Salafi-Jihadist group with prior links to Al-Qaeda is Syria’s current interim president. Once a frequent...
27 Years After “The Troubles,” Northern Ireland Remains at the Intersection of Religion and Politics
Although the April 1998 peace deal known as the Good Friday Agreement was supposed to have resolved the conflict in...