Diplomacy & Crisis News

Insights from Jieun Baek.

Vietnam is deeply committed, for strategic and historic reasons, to respond to uncertainty and global geopolitical tensions by hedging. And it's working.

The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.

North Korea, already receiving Russian drone technology, could eventually gain access to more advanced capabilities like autonomous AI‑enabled and jet‑powered drones.

In addition to sanctioning 27 Iranian airlines, the U.S. designated Turkish, Kazakh, and Malaysian companies for serving as general sales agents for long-sanctioned Iranian airline Mahan Air.

Focusing strictly on China’s anxieties misses a far more urgent reality: South Korea faces an existential threat from North Korea.

The war in Ukraine has produced a much longer-term transformation of the institutional and political environment in which migration takes place.

South Korea and France agreed to advance defense cooperation and coordinate on Hormuz Strait security following a summit in Paris.

Indian laws never specified any single document as proof of citizenship, but the Modi government’s citizenship screening drive has turned it into a big question.

Japan and South Korea share more than enough to work together on North Korea — but less than is often assumed.

The real question is not simply how many provinces Pakistan needs, but whether its political system can make smaller units more accountable, representative and effective.

A far-right state election victory is ushering in the end of the country’s postwar political system.

The 46th World Chess Olympiad is being held in Samarkand.

An erratic United States and a rising China have the region recalibrating.

How to survive in a world without rules.

Self-help is becoming more vital in a vicious world.

The importance of a “common good” compass.

The era of easy growth is over, but rich and poor countries can still join forces.

How Europe can disrupt Moscow’s oil windfall.

Terrorists sometimes defeat themselves.