Diplomacy & Crisis News

Insights from Wayne Tan.

Mounting resistance and ethnic tension are testing Taliban rule in Afghanistan’s north.

The agreement is not directed against India, but it alters the strategic environment in which India-Pakistan relations play out.

Whether or not Japan’s nuclear policy is actually revised, the very fact that such a revision is being openly debated is a striking development.

Moscow will soon have to redirect a growing share of its exports to Asia.

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.