Good to Know: Collective security Stacie Goddard - January 9, 2024 An explainer on collective security agreements like NATO.
Biden hopes sanctions will deter Putin. It may not be so easy. Bruce W. Jentleson - February 18, 2022 Steep economic costs may not significantly change Russia’s behavior
Nobody can go to the Tokyo Olympics. So why is the government going ahead with them? Phillip Y. Lipscy and Daniel Smith - July 18, 2021 The political stakes are high, as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga must face voters in a general election this fall
Great powers have always dictated the terms of ‘global’ tax deals. This time may be different. Martin Hearson - June 29, 2021 Lower-income countries now want to have their say in global tax politics.
Germany acknowledged colonial atrocities in Namibia as genocide. Victims’ groups want more. Franziska Boehme - June 8, 2021 Descendants of the victims want a presidential apology and further reparations.
Mitch McConnell once knew all about the filibuster’s racist history. What changed? Saladin Ambar - March 29, 2021 We know from his own writings that McConnell is aware of the filibuster’s ‘racial history’
‘The Shadow King’ is a must-read on Ethiopia’s history Laura Seay - July 16, 2020 This is a story about fascists and freedom fighters, and emperors and common people.
The Treaty of Versailles was signed June 28, 1919. So why don’t countries formalize peace today? Tanisha Fazal - June 26, 2019 Here’s how peace treaties have changed in the past 100 years.
The League of Nations — the U.N.’s predecessor — was born 100 years ago this month M. Patrick Cottrell - June 10, 2019 It’s hard to imagine the U.N., and much of today’s international order, without it.
Because China isn’t ‘Caucasian,’ the U.S. is planning for a ‘clash of civilizations.’ That could be dangerous. Steven Ward - May 4, 2019 The United States tried that with Japan. It didn’t end well.