TURKEY’S ‘BLUE HOMELAND’ DOCTRINE TAKES SHAPE IN LIBYA
Erdogan's adventurism could precipitate a deeper conflict and crisis in the Mediterranean region, extending north toward Greece, writes Henri Barkey.
CHINA’S RISE AS A MILITARY POWER: A VIEW FROM TOKYO
For a Japanese perspective on China’s ascendancy as a military and maritime power, Jongsoo Lee interviews Narushige Michishita, vice president and professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.
ADDRESSING SYSTEMATIC INEQUALITIES IS CRUCIAL FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
Addressing domestic issues such as those raised by the Black Lives Matter movement is not only crucial for people seeking justice, but are quintessential for enhancing the country’s international legitimacy, credibility, and power, writes Sohaela Amiri
THE UNEXPECTED CONNECTION: SOCIAL UNREST IN THE UNITED STATES AND CHILE
The United States seems to be taking plays out of the South American oppressors’ handbook on its own citizens, something I never thought I’d see in America, writes Samantha Pettigrew.
HONG KONG DEMOCRATS MAY FEEL ‘EXIT’ IS THEIR ONLY OPTION
While Beijing’s most recent threat to Hong Kong will likely end most vestiges of the “one country, two systems” policy, the Special Administrative Region appeared to have already arrived at a critical juncture in its political decline, write Brandon Alexander Millan and Joel S. Fetzer.
COVID-19 AND THE MIDDLE EAST’S ‘COLD WAR’
The term “post-COVID-19 world” has already entered our collective lexicon just as the “post-9/11 world” did more than two decades ago, and the “post-war world” did after the end of World War II, writes Ibrahim al-Marashi.
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