The next stage of the hot Cold War
WASHINGTON, DC – After a year of big surprises, led by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the global spike in inflation rates, and...
International ‘groupthink’ in a hypothetical Taiwan Strait crisis
THE Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, is tiptoeing into the tricky terrain of “groupthink”, when senior bureaucrats huddle together during war or...
Lagarde, Putin, Biden and the trouble with drawing red lines
CHRISTINE Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), is svelte, urbane and French. She knows better than to show up...
Is it the Cold War all over again?
AGAINST the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, and growing tensions between the United States and Russia (as well as with China)...