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Taiwan: Just a Phone Call Away
- Analysis
- January 20, 2017
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States brought unexpected attention to Taiwan. One of Trump’s first post-election acts was to exchange telephone courtesies with President Tsai Ing-wen, calling her “President of Taiwan” on Twitter. Since Tsai, of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected in 2016, this was a conversation between
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One Thing Trump is Right About
- Analysis
- January 20, 2017
Throughout the Cold War, the amount of military violence worldwide grew steadily, reaching a peak in 1992. A major reason was interference by the superpowers in local conflicts. The proxy wars that resulted when the United States and the Soviet Union backed one side or the other in any given country dragged wars out longer
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What is Montenegro to NATO Now?
- Analysis
- January 13, 2017
Montenegro’s accession to full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) took a major step forward this week as the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the Balkan country’s membership bid. President-elect Donald Trump has yet to tweet his opinion on this and no comment came for Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State,
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The Liberal Democratic World Order Is Falling Apart
- Analysis
- January 13, 2017
As a new year opens across the globe, the post-Second-World-War order and the global rule of law are losing out to the rule of individual men. From Russia to China to the EU, authoritarian rule is tightening its grip. In some of the most powerful countries in the world, these pillars of international affairs are
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