US military exercise brings Libya’s rival factions together

The initiative runs alongside an agreed budget and political discussions on power-sharing facilitated by an American envoy, but Washington is concerned about the presence of foreign fighters

Rifaat Balkhair

How to Hit Russia Where It Hurts

Russia’s 2014 annexation ofCrimea, its war in easternUkraine, its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and other aggressive acts againstthe United Statesand its allies demand a…

Peter Harrell

The Crisis of Peacekeeping

In nearly 50 conflict zones around the world, some one and a half billion people live under the threat of violence. In many of these places, the primary enforcers of order are not police officers or…

Séverine Autesserre

The Age of Uneasy Peace

By Yan Xuetong In earlyOctober 2018,U.S.Vice PresidentMike Pencedelivered a searing speech at aWashingtonthink tank, enumerating a long list of reproaches againstChina. From territorial disputes…

Yan Xuetong

2018 Year in Review

JANUARY With signs pointing to the civil war in Syria entering its final stages and Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring victory over ISIS there in December 2017, we took a look at the…

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