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International relations are the work of desperate hope, assailed by brutal lessons. For the society of states, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s monstrous rendezvous with history in Ukraine is a trauma, a test and a teaching moment. Turning Russia into a pariah, Putin demonstrates that force does not always do good. …

An international relations expert said that although New Zealand is small, the government’s position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is still of global importance. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to breakaway regions of Ukraine this week, a move that has seen world leaders sanction Russia in hopes of averting …

As US-Iranian relations continue to be adversarial after Trump, any path to reconciliation should involve the US administration engaging directly with and listening to the general Iranian public, writes Kourosh Ziabari. A portrait of U.S. President Joe Biden is taped to a balloon during a ceremony marking the anniversary of …

Relations between Indonesia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are once again tense. On December 1, 2021, some diplomats representing the PRC government sent a protest letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (Kemlu) regarding the exploration of natural resources in the northern waters …

ABU DHABI, 13th February, 2022 (WAM) — The Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) today announced the launch of its admission campaign and calls on all aspiring diplomats to apply before the deadline of March 13, 2022. Renowned for its diplomatic capacity development, research and thought leadership initiatives, the Academy has …

Lisa Ellis has been named executive director of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations, according to the organization. Santa Fe-based Ellis begins in the role Feb. 22 and takes over from acting director James Falk, according to a press release. She was appointed by the organization’s board of directors. …

By Nick Erickson Even the brightest minds at the heart of the conflict or strongly connected to it struggle to understand what is happening and what will come next. Will Russia, with troops stationed on Ukraine’s eastern border, invade? Or is it a highly organized bullying game? Basically, there’s enough …

FILE In this photo released by the State Duma, the press service of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the State Duma, the lower house of parliament in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Lavrov said the US response contained some elements that …

Washington D.C.- When the Biden administration stripped Yemen’s Houthi rebels of the “terrorist” group label last February, it cited the potentially “devastating” effects the designation would have on Yemeni civilians’ access to lifesaving humanitarian aid. But less than a year later, President Joe Biden said the group’s re-naming was “under …

Letter from the editor BY SHAWN DORMAN Welcome to this packed double edition of The Foreign Service Journal to start the new year. In addition to our regular programming, this issue features an exclusive interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as well as a first-person account from Moscow Signal, …

Yantian Port Photo: CFP Chinese diplomat in Germany urged new German government to play an active role in the EU, abide by the one-China principle and not play the “Taiwan card” or send false signals to the forces secessionists of “Taiwan independence”, as Lithuania wants. to hold the EU’s position …

The closing meeting of the 4th session of the 13th National People’s Congress is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 11, 2021. / Xinhua The closing meeting of the 4th session of the 13th National People’s Congress is held at the Great …

Germany’s new government promises a tougher stance on Russia and China, a change in musical mood that will affect the rest of Europe, where Berlin has traditionally been the moderating voice and defined the central pitch. So far, these are just promises, soothing words to members of the coalition’s three …

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Taiwan will participate in a virtual US Democracy Summit this week after countries like China and Russia failed to make the attendees list, another sign of US support for Asian democracy. East. Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan’s de facto Ambassador to the United States, and Digital Minister Audrey Tang, …

Melbourne: With the resumption of nuclear talks between Iran, the United States and other members of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on November 29, a question looms. Is engagement with Iran likely to bear diplomatic fruit or be wasted? Negotiated in 2015 by the Obama administration (alongside Germany, …

NEW YORK – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s strong coalition victory in Sunday’s legislative elections has been hailed in Washington as a sign of continuity. But attention is quickly shifting to the size of Japan’s defense budget, which the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has pledged to increase. As US President Joe …

WASHINGTON (WRIC) – Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-Henrico) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) sponsor legislation that would give Congress increased control over arms deals with countries that violate international rights standards of man. The bill was announced by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on October 20, and a Senate version has …

Ben Scott is Director of Australian Security and Rules-Based Order Project at the Lowy Institute. Unlike previous great power contests, the competition between the United States and China takes place through and on the content of international rules. The victors of World War I sought to reorganize the world in …

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has opened a first ASEAN research center at the Institute for International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. The opening ceremony took place on Tuesday, October 19 and brought together academic leaders and ambassadors from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), …

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said cross-border lines of communication with South Korea would be re-established in early October as part of efforts to improve frosty relations, but warned that it was entirely up to Seoul to determine. the future trajectory of their relationship, according to state media. reported Thursday. …

(Artistic conception: Jean-Dominique Lavoix-Carli) Relations between the two superpowers, the United States and China, dominate the international world. Here we watch the way China perceives American foreign relations. How the United States perceives China and how the former see it as a threat, what this will imply in terms of …

Overview Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflicts and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores the dynamics of national and international foreign policy for an accessible insight into how and why the regional order of the Middle East has changed over time. Highlighting …

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size It’s the evening of November 16, 2016, and Barack Obama and Angela Merkel have just sat down for a private dinner inside Berlin’s chic Adlon Hotel – the place where Michael Jackson once hung his nine-month-old son. on a fourth floor balcony. …

U.S. foreign policy has long focused more on the evocative vocabulary used to describe it than on the geopolitical reality it is meant to address. The vocabulary that politicians and the media use to define foreign policy is part of a web of artificially generated illusions that serve not so …

France has expressed fury at Australia’s surprise decision to quash a massive submarine deal in favor of the United States’ nuclear-powered submarines, describing it as “a stab in the eye.” backs “of Canberra and a strain on its friendly relations with Washington. “It’s really a stab in the back. We …

September 11, 2021 AAFTER AMERICA and its allies overthrew the Taliban in 2001, the enrollment rate of Afghan girls in primary school has risen from 0% to over 80%. Infant mortality has halved. Forced marriage has been made illegal. Many of these schools were broken and many families ignored the …

First it was North Korea. Then came Myanmar. It is now Afghanistan. The three ongoing crises in China’s neighborhood seem to have little in common. But for Beijing, they pose the same question: how to deal with strategically important but failing states at its border, and how China’s response will …

Vietnam Updates Sign up for myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about news from Vietnam. When Kamala Harris landed in Vietnam last week, she had already been eclipsed. Just hours before his plane landed, the Chinese ambassador in Hanoi met with the Vietnamese prime minister to pledge …

Jawaharlal Nehru was not only the architect of modern India and the country’s first prime minister. He also played a central role in the discrediting of European imperialism and gave voice to the peoples of Asia and Africa struggling for self-determination and racial equality. An unlikely revolutionary, Nehru was born …

The coup attempt in 2016 fueled mistrust of Turkey’s western allies at the same time as Russia became a potential ally Faced with a decline in the economy and its poll numbers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently trying to reconnect with Washington, five years after his government and …

The Black Sea has been the scene of frequent and close clashes between Russian and Western military forces in recent weeks. In a major incident in late June, Russia said one of its warships fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs to force a British destroyer out of an …

China Europe Photo: IC Editor’s Note: “China has shown no military hostility towards the EU. Most Europeans see China as a necessary ally or partner. The EU spends more on militarization than China. Where is the proof that China is the aggressor? This was recently tweeted by Clare Daly (Daly), …

Editor’s Note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and graduated from Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics relating to China, the DPRK, Britain and the United States. The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of CGTN. This week marked …

MOSCOW, July 28. / TASS /. The West promotes a totalitarian regime in world affairs through expanded sanctions and other methods of unlawful pressure on other states, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote in his item published Monday in the daily Kommersant and the newspaper Russia in Global Affairs. “By …

Iranian chief justice Ebrahim Raisi was due to win the country’s presidential election on Saturday morning, after the remaining candidates in the race conceded, including his politically moderate main challenger. Many Iranians feel sidelined by Iran’s authoritarian religious establishment. Millions of people boycotted the elections. The country’s election watchdog, the …

NEW YORK / GENEVA / MOSCOW – US President Joe Biden held his first summit in Geneva on Wednesday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, agreeing to put in place new frameworks for dialogue on arms control and cybersecurity. The two sides also agreed to allow their respective ambassadors to …

Fri 11-06-2021 23:09 ABU DHABI, June 11, 2021 (WAM) – Saqr Ghobash, Chairman of the Federal National Council (FNC) said that the election by the United Nations General Assembly of the United Arab Emirates today as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for 2022-2023 reaffirms global …

In the sixties, India became the begging bowl of the world. Famine had left the country unable to feed its own people. Indira Gandhi was not one to tolerate global insults. She started the green revolution because of which the granaries of the country are full today. India aspires to …

Stronger convergence in the Indo-American partnership will need to be built in order to maneuver the strategic interests of like-minded countries to create a stronger deterrent against China’s patterns of behavior that prove detrimental to peace and stability. global. The deadly pandemic engulfed the rest of the world in general …

PHNOM PENH – US diplomat Wendy Sherman has said Washington has “serious concerns” about China’s “military presence” at an expanding Beijing-backed naval base on the Cambodian coast. Sherman, the Deputy Secretary of State, made the remarks during a two-hour meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday in Phnom …

It is widely accepted that the pursuit of “strategic autonomy” is a unique attribute of Indian foreign policy. The point, however, is that all countries, large or small, try to maximize their room for maneuver within the constraints in which they find themselves. Take the case of Pakistan. During the …

SEOUL – When South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait alongside his American counterpart Joe Biden in Washington, it may have appeared as an unexpected drift towards the American position. Yet their May 21 summit statement elicited relatively little recoil from China for …

May 25, 2021 (Washington, DC) – US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) led a bipartisan resolution with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in the Senate condemning the recent devastating attack on a girls’ school in Kabul that has made more than 85 dead and 150 injured. people, and also expressing U.S. solidarity …

One of my favorite quotes is from former Secretary of State James Baker, who wryly observed that “foreign policy is like your plumbing; you don’t think about it until something goes wrong and that’s all you think about! This truism is again evident with missiles flying between Gaza and Israel, …

This article is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ blog series on Women’s Leadership in Peacebuilding and Nonviolent Movements, in which CFR scholars, scholars and practitioners highlight new security strategies. This post was written by Habiba Sarabi, a member of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan negotiating team engaged in …

“Yemen was already the poorest country in the Middle East before the war, but the conflict and the resulting blockade tactics made the situation exponentially worse.” “The United States must make it clear that these cruel and senseless blockade tactics endanger millions of innocent Yemenis and are counterproductive to peace.” …

UN Security Council diplomats and Muslim foreign ministers called emergency meetings over the weekend to demand an end to civilian bloodshed as Israeli warplanes carried out the attacks. deadliest in nearly a week of Hamas rocket barrages and Israeli airstrikes. President Joe Biden has given no sign of escalating public …

German voters will go to the polls on September 26. As the country’s general elections quickly approach, there is every chance that Annalena Baerbock will become the next German Chancellor at the end of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16-year term. For several weeks now, the Baerbock party–the Greens–takes first place in …

The KP Sharma Oli administration last week made what has been the country’s biggest ambassadorial recommendation in the past two and a half years, appointing envoys to 11 countries. The recommended names have been sent to the Parliamentary Secretariat for nomination hearings, but experts are already sounding the alarm that …

China is Australia’s main trading partner and Xi has clearly identified the mutual benefit for the two countries. But in recent years, China has increasingly been viewed by Canberra as a security threat. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization first warned in 2017 of an increase in attempts by China to …