The Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security is rooted in the principles articulated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that emphasized the need to for peace and security, especially in the Indo-Pacific region, against rising authoritarian and revanchist powers, and for...
I was drafting a little Four Pillars article on some statements and proclamations made over the week, but a notable event just had to happen in the Middle East again. Not to make a mockery of a death, but Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is confirmed dead following a...
In a plea that's unlikely to be respected by Turkey's increasingly dictatorial president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, European politicians and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have called on Turkey to respect the rule of law amid a purge of state institutions in...
The United Kingdom's new prime minister, Theresa May, pushed for U.K. unity in Edinburgh on July 15 on her first visit as Britain's premier. While 51 percent of voters in the U.K. as a whole backed its exit from the European Union, 62 percent of Scots voting favored...
Jason Burke, writing in The Guardian, discusses why France is such a target for Islamic mass murderers. He observes, among other things that: "Undoubtedly, the role France has historically assumed as standard bearer of Western secular liberalism has put the...
Container ships in world trade. Despite Brexit and rising pressure for protectionism across the West, ''anyone who thinks globalization is dead misreads what's really happening,'' writes Michael Schuman in Bloomberg News. "While there are pockets of resistance, much...
The skyline of booming Shanghai. China has reported a higher-than-expected annualized growth rate of 6.7 percent, the same rate as in the first quarter. As with most dictatorships, it's difficult to know how accurate that number us. However, in any case, most...
Claims in the South China Sea. Note that China claims everything within the red line. The ruling last week by an international tribunal in the Hague against China’s claims over most of the South China Sea has raised uncertainty and tension amongst those in shipping...