The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference is scheduled for January 2022. Since its ratification in 1968 and the end of the Cold War, the nuclear landscape has changed dramatically.…
In 2001, the signing of the Bonn Agreement marked the beginning of a major Western investment in the cultural, economic and political reshaping of Afghanistan. Twenty years later, a weakened…
After being ruled by Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its junior coalition partners since 2005, Germany is set for Vice-Chancellor and Finance minister Olaf Scholz to become its…
Pierre Morcos, "After the AUKUS Crisis, Are France-U.S. Relations Back on Track?," Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies, November 16, 2021.
When acts of violence against civilians are widely publicized, Canada is frequently rushed to join its allies in public denunciation campaigns aimed at raising the political cost for an actor…
The South China Sea (SCS) disputes are among the world’s most sensible and complex geopolitical questions. Three reasons render such disputes particularly complex: the number of stakeholders involved, the conflicting…
While the 20th anniversary of September 11 terrorist attack is a reminder of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and the beginning of the War on Terror, it also marks the…
Highlights The U.S. pivot to Asia strategy, launched by the Obama administration in 2011, comes in response to the significant structural change represented by China's economic and military rise. This…
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Yf Reykers, John Karlsrud
- October 14, 2021
- Time to Read: 8 min
International organisations (IOs) are created with the aim of solving collective action problems when a crisis arises. Yet, member states have repeatedly established ad hoc crisis responses in situations where…
Without turning away from counterterrorism, U.S. defense seems to be increasingly orienting its focus on China in an era of great power competition. Yet China is not the only challenge…
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