The West sees two geostrategic questions regarding China: adapt to its growing strength or confront it? Future historians might see recent Western behavior toward China as something else entirely.
By Ian Morris
It's geopolitics, not business opportunities, that makes Asian leaders seek meetings with Vladimir Putin.
By Artyom Lukin
For years, Turkey's ruling party has marginalized Kurdish voters. Now, Istanbul's new mayor and his political party sense an opportunity to reach out to the community.
By Sinan Ciddi
The country's prosperity and growth depend on a critical resource it increasingly mismanages.
Georgia's neo-Nazi movement is growing fast, whether thanks to indifference or connivance on the part of the country's political and ecclesiastical authorities.
Worries about nuclear war increase whenever tensions between India and Pakistan heat up. Perhaps an answer to such concerns lies in a rarely posed query: What do the people of Kashmir want?
A transition is underway as digital currencies move slowly into the mainstream. Some case studies offer clues where the shift is headed and what threats bitcoin, Libra and other systems might pose or what benefits they might bring.
The loss of trust between the United States and Turkey is real and will be hard to reestablish in any substantive form in the near future.
By Sinan Ciddi
For decades the U.S. and Canada have agreed to disagree about sovereignty over the far-north shipping lane. But what was once largely abstract is now becoming a practical reality.
Unwilling to confront Beijing in the South China Sea, Washington is remaining vague about what a recent Chinese assault on a Philippine fishing boat means for a U.S.-Philippine defense treaty.
By Lino Miani
Marriage allows those who enter into it to pool resources, labor and genes. But as societies shift, perceptions of the costs and benefits of marriage change, too.
By Ian Morris
With few available options or resources, the winner of the country's Aug. 11 runoff election will face corruption and security issues and have to weigh the temptation of Chinese promises amid deteriorating relations with the United States.
By Lino Miani
