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The Inevitability of the Taliban’s Resurgence in Afghanistan

Benjamin Cole

With the Biden Administration poised to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan a criticism and worries that Biden’s decision is a mistake because it will end up in the Taliban resurging…

Defense & SecurityChina, Iran, North Korea, Russia, United States

Bio-Security in the Age of Global Pandemics

Joanna Rozpedowski

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, the United States held an unparalleled political, economic, and military position in the post-communist era. For nearly three decades,…

Defense & SecurityArctic, China, Russia, United States

Arctic Great Power Competition: The United States, Russia and China

Gabriella Gricius

As the Arctic grows warmer, so too does the potential for great power competition amongst the United States, China, and Russia. While a historic Arctic power like Russia is militarizing…

Government & PoliticsAfghanistan, India, NATO, Pakistan, Taliban, United States

An Interim Government Could Cause Chaos in Afghanistan

Ghulam Farooq Mujaddidi

Speculation over the formation of an interim administration with a new political roadmap for Afghanistan is nothing new. It has been the talk of the town ever since the Trump…

Defense & SecurityUnited States

The Sun Never Sets on Postwar America

Christopher Mott

Stephen Wertheim, Tomorrow The World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy, Belknap Press Press, 2020. “And what, I said, will be the best limit for our rulers to fix when…

Defense & SecurityCyber Security, Russia, United States

Déjà Vu: Hacked Again

Matthew J. Fecteau

This is getting old. Yet again, Russian-backed agents have hacked the United States. The United States can only sanction and indict so many people before discovering that this alone will…

Government & PoliticsEuropean Union, Turkey, United States

Turkey’s Faltering Democracy and Western Interests

Anwar Alam

In mid-November, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. Although brief, the call between the two leaders is likely the start of a markedly different U.S.-Turkey…

Defense & Security

Cyber World War: The People’s Republic of China, Anti-American Espionage, and the Global Cyber Arms Race

Joshua E. Duke

"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you, we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands." - Sun…

Defense & SecurityAl Qaeda, COVID-19, Iraq, ISIS, Syria, Terrorism

COVID-19 and the Increasing Risk of Terrorism

Mohamed ELDoh

There is no doubt that the global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of life. From how we interact with one another to how we commute and work, people…

Government & PoliticsTurkey

Turkey Uses Medieval Score-Settling to Justify Its Hagia Sophia Conversion

Philip Kowalski

Europe is now home to one of the world’s strangest paradoxes. The continent’s most prominent mosque, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, has served as a church since the year 1236.…

DevelopmentAfrica, Angola, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Liberia, Mauritania, Sierra Leone

Africa’s (Modern) Slavery Problem

Joanna Rozpedowski

From rubies in Mozambique to emeralds in Zambia, opals in Australia, and Jade in Myanmar, the mining industry is undergoing an extraction renaissance that is as profitable as it is…

Defense & SecurityNATO, Syria, United States

Are The U.S. And Its Partners Losing Their Grip On Syria’s North East?

Ahmad al-Khaled

The oil-rich province of Deir ez-Zor, located in Eastern Syria, has witnessed another escalation between the local Arab populace and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Unexpectedly for the SDF…