China’s Aid to Africa: Monster or Messiah?
…2008, the China Railway Group used the same model to secure the mining rights to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s copper and cobalt mines under the slogan “(Infrastructure) projects for…
As Iran Simmers, the Nuclear Clock Ticks On
…raw control. Whether through sheer repression this system can survive the popular discontent on display recently, or will succumb over time to its loss of legitimacy, will play out over…
The United States and the UN Security Council: Examining U.S. Perspectives and Approaches to Key Issues
…https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NSC-1v2.pdf, pp. 11. 3 The White House, “Interim National Security Strategic Guidance,” March 2021, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NSC-1v2.pdf, pp. 13. 4 U.S. Department of State, “COVID-19 Recovery – Multilateral Approaches,” https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/#multilateral. 5 White…
CORVI Risk Assessment: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
…with 75 percent of the population living in informal housing.3United Republic of Tanzania, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, 2019, Ministerial Annual Budget to 2018/19 Parliament Session. Often…
Testing Assumptions About the War in Ukraine, One Year Later
…the country’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, stated during Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit in January 2023 that “we have continued and will continue to urge…
March West: China’s Response to the U.S. Rebalancing
…relation between the U.S. and China has become increasingly contentious and “zero-sum”. In Beijing’s view, deeply embedded in the rebalancing is Washington’s profound concern about China’s rise in the region…
March West: China’s Response to the U.S. Rebalancing
…relation between the U.S. and China has become increasingly contentious and “zero-sum”. In Beijing’s view, deeply embedded in the rebalancing is Washington’s profound concern about China’s rise in the region…
A New Approach to Old Talks
…productively than in the past, but they will not accept an embarrassing public defeat. Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Akbar Salehi, has emphatically stated that Tehran will not accept…