Diplomacy & Crisis News

Learning to live in a post-American world.

The real history of Beijing’s rare-earth dominance.

A quarter century before 9/11, an upsurge in global terrorism prompted the historian David Fromkin to examine its purpose and method. Terrorism was a strategy of the weak, Fromkin wrote in these pages, but modern technology had enabled it “to enter the political arena on a new scale.” And its surprising success seemed to be due, in large part, “to a miscomprehension of the strategy by its opponents.”

How to make government work again.

War with Thailand pushed Cambodia to enact a sweeping scam crackdown. Now the ruling elite is leveraging the same crackdown to consolidate its political control.

Neither region can compete directly with China and the United States, but together they have the potential to show how middle powers can shape the AI economy.

The trip would be the former general's sixth, and third to an ASEAN member state, since his appointment as president in April.

The United States scales back joint military drills with Seoul to appease Pyongyang.

A last-minute order to scale back Ulchi Freedom Shield may have a limited immediate military effect. Its deeper cost is the precedent.

With Tajikistan's main supplier of oil, Russia, under pressure, Dushanbe has turned to another partner: Iran.

The Han Kuang drills are a useful step, but it should lead to more measurable questions for Taiwan’s ability to weather a crisis.

Caribbean laborers report rat-infested rooms and abusive bosses.

Soldiers told survivors that the massacre in Byain Phyu was retaliation for the defeat and casualties the military suffered at the hands of the Arakan Army in the Battle for Kyauktaw.

Aliza Marcus’s “Resurgence and Revolution” sheds light on the past and future of the Kurdish cause.

The shape of the Kazakh legislature may have changed, but the politics of Kazakhstan have not necessarily been transformed. 

The U.S., South Korea, and Japan are pursuing different AI-driven combat systems. That will lead to different recommendations on the same battlefield.

These disputes all involve India and the Himalayas – but in these three cases, the other claimant isn’t Pakistan.

Beijing is systematically countering U.S. and European sanctions efforts by expanding its jurisdiction.

The former prime minister defeated incumbent chair Jung Chung-rae 54.1 percent to 45.9 percent in the party’s chairmanship election.

Until 2022, the DAP had spent six decades in opposition – but gaining a foothold in government has been a mixed blessing.