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Nuclear options in Ukraine

Will Russia use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine? It’s a question Western intelligence services are working on around the clock and that Western leaders are carefully weighing. President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia reserves the right.

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15.09.2022 / 22:07

The threat to Brazil’s democracy

Brazil’s presidential election campaign is in full swing after officially kicking off on August 16, pitting leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (“Lula”) against right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

30.07.2022 / 18:29

America’s dysfunctional politics

Thirty years ago, the Soviet empire collapsed, in large part because many within its orbit believed Western-style democracy and rule of law were superior to Soviet Communism.

14.06.2022 / 02:31

Russia has already lost the war

Russia continues to make gains on the ground in Ukraine, particularly in the Donbas region where the war’s fighting is now most intense.

12.05.2022 / 01:22

What next for China?

Over the next decade, will China become stronger or weaker?

15.04.2022 / 21:15

China vs Covid, and its collateral damage

China’s leaders have a story to tell. The Communist Party, they say, leads the nation on behalf of the Chinese people, and it does so far more effectively than American and European leaders govern their own countries.

10.03.2022 / 18:18

A new, riskier Cold War

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created tremendous uncertainty for tens of millions of people, but there is one thing we can be sure of: Russia and the West are now at war.

16.12.2021 / 20:45

No one wants war in Ukraine, but caution is critical

Russia has moved nearly 100,000 soldiers into position near its border with Ukraine over the past several weeks. If that weren’t ominous enough, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his security services have uncovered evidence of a Russia-backed coup plot against his government.

28.10.2021 / 21:52

Measuring national and political stability in the US

The J curve describes the relationship between a country’s openness (both the openness of its political processes and the free movement of people, goods and information within and across its borders) and its stability (the ability of its institutions to absorb shock).

05.09.2021 / 17:34

The insidious threat of spyware

An Israeli company called NSO Group has created a spyware tool called Pegasus that gives its users an extraordinary ability to surveil and steal secrets from anyone who carries a smartphone.

26.08.2021 / 10:30

Collapse in Afghanistan

The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is the first major foreign policy crisis of the Biden administration.

11.08.2021 / 12:00

US relations with Russia and China

The conventional wisdom in the United States was that President Donald Trump was extremely tough on China, but suspiciously soft on Russia.

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