Leadership
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Portuguese court orders ex-PM Sócrates to stand trial for money laundering
LISBON — A Portuguese judge on Friday ordered ex-Prime Minister José Sócrates to stand trial for money laundering and falsifying…
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Myanmar on the Brink of State Failure
In a briefing to the UN Security Council’s 9 April 2021 ‘Arria-Formula’ Meeting on the situation in Myanmar, Crisis Group’s…
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Joint Declaration of the Southeast Asian People-to-People Region Hall on the Crisis in Myanmar
Convened by President José Ramos-Horta and Dr Dino Patti Djalal, Chairman of Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia Thursday, 8 April…
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Why America Must Lead Again
By nearly every measure, the credibility and influence of the United States in the world have diminished since President Barack…
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Janet Yellen pledges greater US international co-operation
“America first must never mean America alone,” she said in her first major speech on its overseas economic policy. BBC…
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What Joe Biden Can Learn from the Greek War of Independence
We need to find the right balance for today. Paul Glastris Washington Monthly Few presidents have entered the White House…
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Joe Biden’s Ukraine Policy: A Repeat of George W. Bush in Georgia?
Biden’s administration is going out of its way to assure Ukraine’s government that the United States and the North Atlantic…
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Pope Francis slams ‘scandalous’ military spending and conflict while the world battles coronavirus
Pope Francis has urged countries in his Easter message to quicken distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly to the world’s poor,…
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Jordan’s ex-crown prince says in a video he’s under ‘house arrest’
Jordan’s former crown prince said says he is under house arrest, but has denied being part of any conspiracy against…
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China’s Hong Kong crackdown was decades in the making
The Iron Lady has been proven right. Stan Grant ABC News Today, the Chinese Communist Party has a stranglehold on…
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Why Jordan’s Apparent Coup Attempt Could Throw the Middle East Into Turmoil
On Saturday, Jordanian authorities arrested nearly twenty people and placed the kingdom’s former crown prince under house arrest. Adam Lammon…
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Politicians need to be held to the highest principles
Two millennia later, they are still a source of ethics and a point of critique in our own day. Philip…
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Myanmar protesters hold ‘flower protests’ to honor dead
Hundreds turned out on Friday morning and laid flowers in public places to remember victims of a brutal crackdown by…
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The Cost of the Coup: Myanmar Edges Toward State Collapse
The military seems bent on imposing its will, using draconian tactics that are only strengthening demonstrators’ will to resist. ICG…
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Brazil plunges deeper into crisis with record monthly COVID-19 deaths and trio of military chief exits
Brazil closed out its deadliest month of the coronavirus pandemic by far on Wednesday as a surge of COVID-19 patients…
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Why Even Well Prepared Countries Failed the Pandemic Test
In May 2018, U.S. leaders met at a Washington hotel to discuss their response to a crisis: a malign actor…
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