In Georgia, an up-and-down road to justice for victims of the August War Since Russia invaded Georgia in the South Caucasus in 2008, the victims of the conflict have found little in the way of justice — until now. Developments at the International Criminal Court (ICC), along with recent strides in the European legal world and in the United States, suggest that meaningful progress may finally be underway…
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:02:12 +0000 Why and how the National Security Strategy should address fragile states The Biden administration’s initial foreign policy priorities are coming into focus: combating climate change, competing with China, and reversing the spread of authoritarianism, all through the prism of U.S. domestic renewal. As the White House puts pen to paper on its first National Security Strategy (NSS), these themes will feature prominently. But so too will…
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:19:07 +0000 In the Middle East, poverty is down but economic grievance is up. Why? The political economies of the Arab world present a fascinating but puzzling paradox. On the one hand, the region’s trajectory over the past decade has reflected growing anger and frustration among Arab publics in societies wracked by economic stress and deepening economic precarity. On the other hand, these widely-held economic grievances co-exist with the lowest…
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:59:45 +0000 10 reasons the US and China should cooperate now to stop the pandemic If the history of the COVID-19 pandemic were written today, the narrative would not be dominated by the global common cause that has characterized past pandemics, but rather by handwringing and finger pointing. Nothing encapsulates this storyline more than the absence of governmental cooperation between China, which was first struck by the virus outbreak, and…
