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 BY DONG YON KIM (Op-Ed Contributor) While South Korea fights with Japan over the economy and past history, the Sino-Russian alliance — joined by North Korea — is getting stronger, forming

BY ELANUR URAL Turkey’s economy is suffering. Consumer inflation is stuck above a 20% rate, and unemployment has increased by over 30% since 2012.[1][2] The Lira dipped down to one-seventh

BY AUSTEN DOWELL While other man-made disasters like the Chernobyl meltdown or the Deepwater Horizon oil spill often command greater name-recognition, the slow death of the Aral Sea is undoubtedly

BY NICHOLAS FLETCHER India and Russia have enjoyed a relatively amicable relationship since the signing of the 1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, which was spurred by the US-China

BY SEAN CROWLEY Last week, President Donald J. Trump called for the creation of a sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces – the Space Force. As of now,

BY NICHOLAS FLETCHER  Russia and China have had a stable working relationship for some time now, based on mutual economic needs and a “don’t attack me, I won’t attack you”

BY AUSTEN DOWELL Neighbors Tajikistan and Uzbekistan seem to be close to reaching an understanding on one of the issues that has most plagued the relationship between these two countries

BY DAVIT SAHAKYAN (Op-Ed Contributor) This week’s G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec was less about highlighting the common grounds among the world’s leading nations and more about trying to conceal

BY SIDNEY BALABAN A formidable Soviet project, the Farhod Hydropower Plant (HPP), stands immovable on the border of Northern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, in the Spitamen District of the Sughd Province.

BY SIDNEY BALABAN The Kasan-Sai Reservoir is located at the western end of Kyrgyzstan — a little over 3 miles away from the Uzbekistan border — in the Ferghana Valley

BY BRANDON WEICHERT Last November marked President Donald J. Trump’s historic trip to Asia. Upon his return, the president decreed that it was the most successful diplomatic trip of any

BY BRIAN BLONDER  Relations between the People’s Republic of China and the United States have been tense for some time, with the issues of China’s expansionism in the South China

BY WENDY WILSON  The United Nations, through a variety of treaties and conventions like the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), establishes education as a human right that

BY BRIAN BLONDER  China’s military exercise on July 14th in which 6 H-6 bombers flew through the Miyako Strait, a strait very close to Japanese islands through which Chinese military

BY LORETA MATULEVIC In the International Criminal Court’s long history of investigating war crimes, the 2008 five-day Russia-Georgia armed conflict was the first conflict outside of Africa to attract the

BY KEFEI WU Many scholars around the world have been studying China’s currency regime and have labeled China as a currency manipulator. Tracing its history, the RMB “has seen many

BY MATTHEW APPEL  This past June marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, a watershed moment in Middle Eastern history that altered the regional balance of power and dramatically

BY JULIA GABRIEL With populism on the rise across Europe and the globe, there is frequent talk of how to restrain extremism on both the left and the right. Amid

BY KEFEI WU U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently accused China of manipulating its currency, the Renminbi (RMB), during his presidential campaign and after his inauguration1. Indeed, through manipulating their

BY LORETA MATULEVIC Geneva talks began with the 1954 Geneva Conference, which aimed at a peaceful dialogue and communication for conflict settlement and resolution. The initial disputes that spurred the

BY GAYATHREE DEVI K. T. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Initiative helmed by the People’s Republic of China proposes an array of infrastructure projects that connect the territory of the

BY DAVIT SAHAKYAN (Op-Ed Contributor)  With America implementing its newly adopted economic nationalism by withdrawing from multilateral agreements as well as imposing new barriers to trade and the UK mired

BY WILL HAMMER  On May 6, Zoran Zaev, the leader of Macedonia’s Social Democratic Union (SDSM), finally received a mandate to form a new government from President Gjorge Ivanov after

BY RICK LIPMAN  As governments across the Middle East have toppled or been plunged into bitter wars over the last several years, the few that have escaped such fates have

BY RICK LIPMAN  The expansion of Iranian influence and Iran’s role as a state sponsor of terrorism are evergreen topics of concern in the U.S. security community, but the Islamic

BY KEFEI WU Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is an affiliated system of the United States’ Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS)1. On July 8, 2016, South Korea and the

BY MATTHEW APPEL  Throughout much of post-Communist Europe, the prospect of EU membership and integration has always been a driving force behind political reforms. In the absence of this external

BY JACOB MERKLE Since the fall of the Soviet Union in December 1991, international institutions in general, and the European Union in particular, have grown in influence. EU countries have

BY STEWART KATO The Kurds are an ethnically distinct people in the Middle East playing a prominent role in pushing back the influence of the Islamic State (IS), but while

BY CASEY MADDEN On January 22, 2009, United States President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13492, calling for the prompt closure of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GTMO).

BY STEWART KATO The Syrian Civil War that erupted in March 2011 continues to disrupt the international community as an increasing number of foreign nations become involved including Russia, the

BY ARMEN V. SAHAKYAN ***This article was originally published by the European Affairs 11/16/2016 at https://goo.gl/N7rjqc On November 13, the Republic of Moldova, a member of the EaP (EU’s Eastern Partnership),

BY ALEXANDER OSADTA The “Red Notice” is Bill Browder’s personal experience in dealing with Russia. In the early days of his financial career he, like no one, saw big opportunities

BY BABKEN MATEVOSYAN, PHD  From Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen to Hungarian Jobbik Party, Geert Wilders’ Dutch Party for Freedom and UKIP in Great Britain, many of the Western

BY BABKEN MATEVOSYAN, PhD We asked ERA Institute experts what to expect from the upcoming July 8-9 NATO Summit in Warsaw and how it may affect relations with Russia and

BY HAIK TER-NERSESYAN  “When partners can’t agree Their dealings come to naught And trouble is their labor’s only fruit. Once Crawfish, Swan and Pike Set out to pull a loaded

BY MICHAEL ZELLER One-hundred years ago this summer the continent of Europe was in the grip of the bloodiest conflagration in centuries. On days like this, when the people of

BY MARIYA PAK FEUER On April 17th, during National Army Day celebrations, Iran displayed part of its new S-300 missile defense system. Delivered this year from Russia, the mobile, long-range, missile

BY LAUREN KAO The Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) is a territory under dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan that has recently erupted in fighting after a 20 year truce. During the April 1

BY VAHE BOGHOSIAN On February 7 North Korea launched a long range rocket to much international criticism. The incident has already begun to cause ripples in global domestic policy, with

BY MICHAEL ZELLER  It is a tumultuous time in British politics; intra- and inter-party forces are wreaking havoc on the previously durable ‘two-and-a-half-party system’ of the United Kingdom. The Scottish

BY ADAM SIMPSON (Op-Ed Contributor)  This article was originally published by Gulf State Analytics: http://goo.gl/wC33aT The Yemeni crisis is entering a new phase. A conglomeration of forces ostensibly linked to exiled

BY AKHIL SHAH (Op-Ed Contributor)  This article was originally published by Gulf State Analytics: http://goo.gl/2WZKZ6 Recent reports suggest that officials in the Sultanate of Oman and the Islamic Republic of

BY TAIMUR ALI (Op-Ed Contributor)  This article was originally published by Gulf State Analytics: http://goo.gl/xrYYeJ Not long ago Qatar was known merely as a micro-state in the Middle East. Despite the Persian