International Relations and Security

The resumption of direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in May after a three-year hiatus was never about peace.

Both Koreas have shared the goal of reunification despite decades of ups and downs in inter-Korean relations. This long-held goal is now in grave peril.

The U.S. once believed it could liberalize China — the opposite may have happened.

Read and listen to an interview between HKS SPR and Taiwanese Diplomat Charles Liao, Director-General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) of Boston.

Security institutions can no longer afford to relegate climate-induced migration to the periphery of strategic considerations.

For decades, the transatlantic alliance has rested on two pillars: a deep trade relationship and Europe’s near-total dependency on U.S. military protection. But recent moves from Washington have shaken that foundation.

Fifty years ago today, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, officially rendering the United States’ decades-long misadventure in Vietnam a failure.[i] The troubling reality of wartime decision-making is that it was not based primarily on whether the United States could feasibly win, or even whether Vietnam was strategically important. Rather, policymakers in Washington escalated the […]

“The impacts of climate change on Africa’s development are increasingly evident across the continent. Given the need for collective regional solutions, an essential normative framework is ‘extraterritorial solidarity.'”

In the turbulent theater of global geopolitics, Kazakhstan – sandwiched between two major regional powers, Russia and China – occupies a unique yet precarious position.

“Given the severe danger whistleblowers face in exposing their governments, it is surprising that the international community has not built more solid protections. Proposing frameworks for creating such a protection system using the treaties, bodies, and laws already on the books offers a feasible pathway that considers the current stalemate in geopolitics.”

“Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there has been a wave of speculation in U.S and other media about the rise of new technologies in warfare. However, many policymakers are drawing the wrong conclusions: that due to the rise of robotics, drones, and artificial intelligence, warfare will be radically smaller. Instead, the evidence from Ukraine points to the fact that while technological change is occurring, mass remains an essential component of modern warfare and U.S. national security policy needs to adjust accordingly.”

Japan is closely watching the early days of the Donald Trump presidency.