China’s intelligence agencies are now powerful and well resourced. They are adept at exploiting the vulnerabilities of open societies and growing dependence on China’s economy to collect vast volumes… Read more »
With its courage in battle, Ukraine is rewriting the history of the 21st century. In stopping a dictator’s brazen invasion, it has become a symbol of the values that the… Read more »
The Ukrainians are going to continue to rout the Russians. It’s hard to know exactly how long it’s going to take. But I think it’s going to happen sooner rather… Read more »
The Taliban’s centralization of power is alienating those who were key to the movement’s success — similar to how President Ghani’s exclusionary politics alienated the republic’s natural allies, argues Sayed… Read more »
Though Putin had the reputation of a strategic genius when he started this war 6 months ago, the #Ukrainians have exposed him as a plodding and unimaginative thinker who miscalculated… Read more »
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is adopting more covert and aggressive tactics in a multibillion-dollar drive to shape global opinion and consolidate its domestic power in China and its priority… Read more »
USAID today released its Dekleptification Guide, a new handbook for uprooting entrenched corruption and seizing windows of opportunity to dismantle kleptocracy: The Guide brings together lessons learned based on groundbreaking… Read more »
Afghanistan was not Albania’s war, and Albania was not an obvious destination for fleeing Afghans, The Washington Post’s Abigail Hauslohner writes: Yet Albania was one of the first nations to… Read more »
Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the… Read more »
A U.S. Congressional delegation has reaffirmed a pledge to support democracy in Tunisia, while expressing concern over the government’s authoritarian drift, the Washington-based Arab Center reports. Senators Chris Coons (D-Delaware)… Read more »