Eurasia

Amid a big Russian military buildup near Ukraine and on the Russian-controlled Crimean Peninsula, the Kremlin has kept a lot of people guessing about its plans and intentions. It did the same after President Vladimir Putin’s video call with U.S. President Joe Biden on December 7, issuing a statement about …

Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, sworn in as Germany’s new chancellor on Wednesday (8 December), will already be embarking on a series of inaugural visits across Europe, accompanied by his foreign minister, Green co-leader Annalena Baerbock. The future “traffic light” coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the liberal …

U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not order the deployment of American troops to Ukraine to counter a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. “That is not on the table,” Biden told reporters on the White House South Lawn. “The idea the United States is going to unilaterally …

A failure to prevent further Russian advances into Ukraine will have ramifications across the South Caucasus and Central Asia. A war scare in Ukraine is a pivotal moment for the West. It tests transatlantic resolve, unity, and the very foundations of NATO. Failure to prevent potential Russian military advances or …

According to the popular narrative, the role of the central bank is to navigate the economy along the so-called path of economic stability. By this way of thinking if various shocks cause the economy to deviate from this path, then it is the role of central bank policy makers to …

With the world still reeling from the global COVID-19 pandemic, nearly two years in the making, few know what to expect terrorism trends to look like heading into 2022. However, certain trends from previous years seem likely to continue and may grow more severe. The terrorist threat is arguably more …

In cutting interest rates amid spiralling inflation, the Turkish government under President Erdogan has thrown economic orthodoxy out the window. The poor face getting poorer. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plan to turn around the Turkish economy has a new victim in Finance Minister Lutfi Elvan, who resigned on December 2. But …

Necesitamos una coalición de democracias que establezca un marco de gobernanza en internet frente a las amenazas de Rusia y China y la arbitrariedad opaca de los gigantes tecnológicos que controlan la red “La democracia no ocurre por accidente. Tenemos que defenderla, luchar por ella, fortalecerla, renovarla”. Es lema de …

Der Umgang mit autoritären Staaten wie China und Russland muss robuster werden. Ein Weiter-so machen weder die Grünen noch die EU-Partner mit. Aus Raider wird Twix, sonst ändert sich nix. Und auf Angela Merkel folgt Olaf Scholz, aber die Außenpolitik bleibt, wie sie ist? Man kann verstehen, warum der neue …

Iran has been insisting on its conditions and demands, including that Washington and the Western powers release frozen Iranian funds before reaching an agreement, according to Tariq Alhomayed, a Saudi journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. He added that Iran was refusing to discuss ballistic missiles, …