How to Tackle Venezuela’s (and the World’s) ‘Odious Debt’ Problem
Venezuela could be a test case for reforming international finance’s lending to authoritarian governments.
Global North and Global South
Russian Propaganda Finds Powerful Megaphone in India
As it ramps up its media presence in India, Moscow is hardly in need of fabricating negative stories about the US. Washington is doing fine on its own to make itself inimical to New Delhi.
Op-eds
Maritime Protection of Taiwan’s Energy Vulnerability
Memos
Georgian PM’s Visit to China Highlights Beijing’s Growing Footprint in South Caucasus
China is a “role model for modernization” and a “champion of peace,” Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze declared during a visit to Shanghai in early November, where the two countries signed...
Policy Briefs
Russia’s shortage of workers is so severe that it is luring foreigners into sweatshops
Russia’s economy has proven remarkably resilient, despite years of sanctions and economic statecraft. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t deep cracks in Russia’s unstable economic foundation,...
Op-eds
50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled
Memos
America must stop aiding our enemies by enabling the shadowy world of dirty cash
Global corruption has exploded in scale and scope, threatening international stability and American national security. As the Trump administration goes to war against Venezuelan drug traffickers,...
Op-eds
Russia aims to ride the BRICS to AI victory
The United States must firm up its own coalition of AI collaborators.
Op-eds
Carnegie Endowment: “Trusting the Americans Is a Bad Idea”
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an American think tank, believes that “trusting the Americans is a bad idea.” Carnegie’s Michael Young did not qualify what he meant by “the...
Op-eds
Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Security
Legislative Testimonies
Blackout
International Energy Policies Threaten U.S. National Security
Monographs
Biotech Battlefield
Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics
Monographs
How the Left Views Langley
REVIEW: 'The CIA: An Imperial History’ by Hugh Wilford
Op-eds
Science Belongs at Universities, National Laboratories – Not the UN
During a World Economic Forum session, Melissa Fleming, U.N. undersecretary-general for global
Op-eds
Iran’s president backs Palestinians amid spats with UK, Australia
Iranian state media characterized this as support for more “resistance.”
Op-eds
Syria’s Assad Meets With Putin as Russia Draws Closer to ‘Resistance Axis’
Latest Developments Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 24 to discuss recent events in the Middle East and beyond. Russian state media circulated...
Flash Briefs
Syria’s regime holds symbolic legislative ‘elections’
The elections are worth watching for what they may tell us regarding the regime’s attempts to return to regions in Syria illegally occupied by Turkey.
Op-eds
Cognitive Combat
China, Russia, and Iran’s Information War Against Americans
Monographs
From Gaza to Global South: How Russia Weaponizes Neocolonial Narratives
Russia is spearheading a disinformation campaign to portray the US and Israel as a neocolonial villain – all while waging its own revanchist colonial war against Ukraine.
Op-eds
Germany Rejects Nicaragua’s ‘Biased’ ICJ Case
Germany roundly rejected Nicaragua’s accusation that it was facilitating Israel’s purported genocide in Gaza at an April 9 hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)....