Relations between the reigning superpower and the aspiring one will be antagonistic and the rest of the world will have to navigate — sometimes delicately, sometimes openly.
The Taliban haven’t held up their side of the bargain — the intra-Afghan dialogue is stuck and a ceasefire is nowhere in sight.
The United States should reset expectations in line with India’s preferences for continuity, reformation, and new equilibria
The rise and fall of a social media handle that went up in smoke, less than 12 years old.
As Biden’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific remains under question, Trump’s legacy of bolstering regional powers could force US policy continuity
This year, more than any other in recent memory, we experienced a public health emergency in the shape of charts and data which told the stories of the dead and the living while we imagined our lives in the cracks in between.
After the end of the Cold War, we did not realise that two different and contrasting ambitions were at stake: the transnational purpose of the Western Europeans and the reaffirmation of national independence of the Easterners, after almost half century of Soviet control.
Europe will have to build on the promising trends and deliver quickly in 2021.
In some ways, Joe Biden’s election victory will reverse many of the trends from the past four years, including on multilateralism, democracy promotion, and immigration.
David Petraeus is a retired United States Army general. ...
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