How China and the US Are Spawning a New Great Power Naval Rivalry The rise and fall of empires has long been a story at the heart of history. Since the Europeans first burst out of their then-marginal region on wooden sailing ships mounted with cannons in the fifteenth century, the planet seldom has had a moment in which several …

By: David Brewster Putting ‘String of Pearls’ Theory into Practice As per the recent reports from Pakistan, China is about to construct a naval and air base near Gwadar. This would be China’s second base in the Indian Ocean and indicates that it may be moving fast to establish a network of military bases across the region. China’s first overseas …

An Ambassador’s Views on Trump’s Decision President Trump’s decision to suspend almost all security aid to Pakistan, which quickly followed his accusation that Pakistan had “given us nothing but lies and deceit,” suggests that his administration is carrying out the hard-line approach that the president foreshadowed in August. On January 04, the State Department confirmed the suspension of security assistance …

Interconnectedness does not threaten sovereignty For much of the 20th century, ideological discussions and debates have centred on liberal versus conservative, left versus right. No longer. The ideological divide of the 21st century is emerging as globalism versus nationalism. Since the end of World War II, global integration and technological progress have fuelled a new world order centred on free …

The present-day world is characterized with digital means of communication, and social media is the most important of them. In fact, the twenty-first century has placed us in a world where we can connect with people across the globe with just one click. Although the social media impacts all fields of life, the most conspicuous one has been on political …

Managing migration is one of the most profound challenges for international cooperation in our time. Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies. The majority of migrants live and work legally. But a desperate minority are putting their lives at risk to enter countries where they …

By: Mireya Solís The APEC Leaders’ summit meeting, which took place in Da Nang, Vietnam, crystallized the new geopolitics of trade in Asia. The leaders of the three largest economies in the world – the United States, China and Japan – each redefined the roles their nation will play in sustaining, torpedoing or adjusting the postwar trading order. Little is …

By: Anders Fogh Rasmussen A no-deal would aid terrorism in the UK and across Europe The United Kingdom has begun to contemplate the prospect of no Brexit deal by the March 2019 deadline. The economic impact would be significant, but with contingency plans under preparation, there are ways to try to mitigate the worst aspects. However, in the fight against …

By: Robert D. Kaplan The nineteenth-century Germans focused so much on philosophy; partly in order not to compete with the protean genius of Goethe, who had dominated all the other literary genres in Germany for so long. And so we have Hegel, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer defining, among other things, the concept of tragedy. But it is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel …

Will they continue in 2018? There is no doubt that nationalist populism will remain an important driver of Europe’s debates. As shown in the 2017 Chatham House research paper on the future of Europe, elites across the EU identify populists as their number one challenge. Thus, as we enter 2018, it seems that many observers were too optimistic about the …