Thailand’s Crisis: A Longer View
…crucible of financial crisis, and the political rise of Thaksin Shinawatra, billionaire telecom tycoon-cum-populist prime minister. Since the 2006 coup that ousted him from power, former Prime Minister Thaksin’s jabs…
Afghanistan Under the Taliban: Findings on the Current Situation
…was to open schools to all. When schools opened in March, however, at the last minute the leader issued an order rescinding the decision by the acting minister of education…
Create a Channel for a U.S.-China Dialogue on South Asia
…Minister Narendra Modi might act very differently to provocations than Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and A. B. Vajpayee did. The strategic personalities of the American and Chinese presidents as well…
Testing Assumptions About US Foreign Policy in 2026
…predicted last year that the legacies of the War on Terror would continue to be felt at home and abroad; from Minnesota to Nigeria, that has been shown to be…
Foreign Policy Priorities in the September 2024 Presidential Debate
…to finalize the negotiations, a scuttled episode that would have seen the Taliban welcomed to one of U.S. diplomacy’s most revered sites just days before the anniversary of 9/11. In…
Soviet Collapse and Nuclear Dangers: Harvard and the Nunn-Lugar Program
…risks, the implications for American interests, and the options for minimizing dangers and promoting desirable outcomes.8Kurt M. Campbell, Ashton B. Carter, Steven E. Miller, and Charles A. Zraket, Soviet Nuclear…
Trump’s 2026 State of the Union in Focus
…campaign pledges never to embroil U.S. forces in another war of choice in the Middle East. A Triumphalist Tone on Venezuela By Benjamin N. Gedan, Senior Fellow and Latin America…
2025 in Focus
…2,400 unregulated mining sites across mainland Southeast Asia, revealing heavy metal contamination risks in 43 river systems and sparking a global media conversation. The publicly accessible data empowered citizen scientists…