Security
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How the World Enables China’s Legal Gamesmanship
More specifically, I suggested that the official delegates of the 160-plus national governments who will convene later in 2020 for…
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Greece on alert as Turkey sends survey ship to disputed waters
The search for potentially rich oil and gas deposits is to take place south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo.…
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Traditional council frees Taliban setting up peace talks
The declaration read out in both of Afghanistan’s official languages of Pashto and Farsi calls for an immediate start to…
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Guns v giving: the trend that says everything about our priorities
We’ve always spent more on arms than aid, of course. Matt Wade The Sydney Morning Herald But the amount allocated…
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Moscow and Ankara will continue uneasy cooperation
Moscow also touts possible space cooperation with Turkey amidst tensions with the US on this issue. Anna Borshchevskaya Middle East…
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Peter Dutton confirms Australia could spy on its own citizens under cybersecurity plan
Peter Dutton has confirmed the government’s $1.6bn cyberstrategy will include capability for the Australian Signals Directorate to help law enforcement…
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Somalia-Somaliland: A Halting Embrace of Dialogue
The parties should cooperate on technical issues, pending a shot at deeper dialogue. ICG Somalia and Somaliland, which have been…
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Raising the Stakes in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmiri militancy is growing, often with Pakistani encouragement. ICG Allies should urge New Delhi to relax its clampdown and Islamabad…
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Pandemic’s economic fallout will worsen conflicts: U.N. diplomats
COVID-19 is hampering aid programs, diverting the attention and resources of major powers battling the deadly virus at home, and…
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Salvaging the Security Council’s Coronavirus Response
Their appeal has fallen flat. ICG Council members should use their August downtime to look at how it might still…
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Turkish Aggression Is NATO’s ‘Elephant in the Room’
BRUSSELS — The warships were escorting a vessel suspected of smuggling weapons into Libya, violating a United Nations arms embargo.…
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Peace in Ukraine (II): A New Approach to Disengagement
If this facilitates peacemaking, so much the better. ICG What’s new? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to power in 2019…
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With borders closed, our lifelines to family overseas have been cut. The isolation is suffocating
Τhe first exhibition I visited when I arrived in Sydney in 2010 was called On Their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants.…
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China and Iran are about to Become Allies—Here’s What We Should Do about It
”Two ancient Asian cultures, two partners in the sectors of trade, economy, politics, culture and security with a similar outlook…
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The African water wars are here: Egypt and Ethiopia could go to war over river Nile
Away from the chatter of a global pandemic, in the long-lost areas of the African continent, there is a war…
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UK has ‘poisoned’ relations with China, says ambassador
LONDON — The U.K. has “poisoned the atmosphere” of its relations with China and is putting the post-Brexit vision of…
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