Leadership
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Japan’s Suga crawls but needs to sprint
TOKYO – Japan needed a bang. What it got was a whimper. Case in point? Yoshihide Suga. William Pesek Asia…
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Belarus opposition prepares mass strikes after Alexander Lukashenko ignores deadline to quit
Eleven weeks after a disputed presidential election, the crisis in the former Soviet republic entered a new phase with the…
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Celebrations as Chile votes by huge majority to scrap Pinochet-era constitution
Chile has voted overwhelmingly in favor of rewriting the the country’s constitution to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago…
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Georgia and Russia: Why and How to Save Normalisation
But whoever wins at the polls should not abandon dialogue, but rather build on it to frankly discuss these problems.…
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Vatican rebuts US protests over China deal
ROME — The Vatican has renewed a controversial agreement with China despite intense opposition from the U.S. government. Hannah Roberts…
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Too Much to Lose: Steering the U.S. Away from Election-Related Violence
As U.S. elections approach, extremist activity, the potential for contestation and President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to transferring power…
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Ibrahim Omer spent five years in a refugee camp.
With shoot-to-kill orders in place at the border in Eritrea, Ibrahim Omer had a tough choice to make when he…
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Majority Rules in Myanmar’s Second Democratic Election
The next test will be whether the result entrenches minority grievances that fuel armed conflict or revives reform efforts to…
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Online Symposium: George Bizos & his Odyssey to Freedom
This symposium is free and open to the public. Details: 1) The Online Symposium can be accessed via Zoom /…
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‘The tyranny of merit’ is tearing America apart
The meritocracy are the elite, the richest, most privileged of Americans who have a stranglehold on power and wealth. Stan…
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Ardern wins landslide in New Zealand election
With two thirds of the vote counted, Ardern’s center-left Labour Party was on 49.2 percent and forecast to take around…
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Hot takes on Gladys Berejiklian’s ‘sex scandal’ abound — but it’s worth digging deeper than the reactions
It might, at the beginning of the week, have been difficult to imagine that ICAC would be capable of genuine…
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Renewing a Stoic philosopher’s Cypriot passport
Born in the 4th century BCE of Phoenician descent he was known as Zeno of Citium the Hellenic kingdom on…
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Behind Bangkok’s Wave of Popular Dissent
In this Q&A, Crisis Group’s senior analyst for South East Asia, Matt Wheeler, explains how this crisis over political legitimacy…
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What developing countries can teach us about how to respond to a pandemic
The other ten are in the Americas. Authors The Conversation This includes the US, which has the highest number of…
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Ten thousand protesters defy Thai crackdown after emergency decree and arrests
Some 10,000 Thai protesters have gathered in defiance of a sweeping crackdown after authorities moved to crush months of pro-democracy…
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