Seven of the eight Arctic nations are members of NATO yet collectively, they trail Russia's ice-breaker capacity. This was even before adding in the icebreakers China has built as it proclaims itself ...

After a half century, Islamism has become the single most disruptive force—both politically and militarily—in the Middle East. It evolved from cells of political activists in the 1970s into mass ...

The Kissinger Institute is pleased to present Bradley Jardine’s Great Wall of Steel, China’s Global Campaign to Suppress the Uyghurs, the culmination of over two years’ work. Since 2018, global ...

The expansion and persistence of slums in Mumbai is primarily a function of failed housing policies combined with other political factors, writes Fellow Yue Zhang. Urban Sustainability Laboratory From ...

The growth of renewable energy in recent years -- particularly wind, solar and hydroelectric power sources -- has been dramatic. Nevertheless, as noted by the International Energy Agency, fossil fuels ...

Since achieving independence from Britain in 1948, Myanmar has experienced the world’s longest running civil war. Despite its exhortations as to being the country’s stabilizer, Myanmar’s military, ...

NOTE: This is an excerpt from a policy brief on the data-centric national security risks associated with reliance on satellite segments in 5G telecommunications networks. For a more in-depth ...

The Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act this July, leading many to discover this organization for the first time.

China just signed its fourth free trade agreement in Latin America, this time with Ecuador, a country with close ties to the United States that had fruitlessly tried to negotiate a similar deal with ...

Russia’s recruitment of soldiers to fight in its war in Ukraine has disproportionately drawn from the country’s Indigenous peoples. Individuals from these communities—most notably Buryats, Tuvans, ...

The Ethiopia's Tigray war was an armed conflict that lasted from November 2020 to November 2022. The war was primarily fought in the Tigray region of Ethiopia between the Ethiopian federal government ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) models continue to improve and become more accessible, the harms stemming from their misuse also continue to grow. Some of the most heinous misuse includes ...