It’s been a week since a military junta detained State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, ending a decade of quasi-civilian rule and marking Myanmar’s first coup since 1988. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets, demanding a restoration of a government that won a landslide re-election last November, the largest...
Much like Middle East peace, improving U.S.-Russia relations has been an elusive goal of presidential diplomacy for decades. President Bush spoke warmly of the trust between himself and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2001, President Obama memorably sought a “reset” with Russia in 2009, and the election of President Trump in 2016 engendered hopes of a...
The long-awaited regulatory approval of Covid-19 vaccines has opened a new debate about their distribution. Fraught politics on the national level are fueling a contentious geopolitics of global health – marked by dramatic inequalities as powerful countries balance between domestic and international needs. The decisions of the nations most engaged in ‘vaccine diplomacy’ have closely...
The new Biden administration argues that only through close cooperation with its transatlantic partners can the United States effectively confront rising geopolitical challenges, such as an increasingly aggressive China and democratic backsliding in the western world. Recent developments, however, show that President Biden’s goodwill is unlikely on its own to rejuvenate transatlantic ties. In late...
