The attire may have been unusual. But the message was unmistakable. When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov showed up last week at the Alaska Summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, there was no shortage of double takes when onlookers noticed he was wearing a grey sweatshirt with the letters …

For almost everyone involved, the diplomacy around ending the war in Ukraine seems to be an exercise in faking it till they make it. Russian President Vladimir Putin is pretending he wants peace. U.S. President Donald Trump is riding along with him, pretending (or perhaps truly thinking) that Putin is …

Great-power competition once again defines international relations. But the exact contours of today’s contest remain the subject of debate. Some observers emphasize ideological precedents from the Cold War. Others focus on changing military balances. Still others highlight leaders and their choices. In truth, modern conflicts over the international system flow …

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Iraqi Popular Mobilization Committee (PMC) Chairman Faleh al Fayyadh defended the Popular Mobilization Authority Law against domestic critics during an interview with Iraqi media on August 20.[1] This law, which Parliament has yet to vote on, would likely increase Iran’s influence in the Iraqi political and security spheres by formalizing …

La stratégie actuelle de l’OTAN, qui vise à dégrader les capacités militaires conventionnelles de la Russie, risque de provoquer une confrontation future dangereuse, susceptible de conduire à une escalade nucléaire rapide. Affaiblir la Russie n’est ni une voie viable vers la stabilité régionale ni vers la paix mondiale, et n’apportera …

L’Europe discute d’un projet de déploiement de troupes en Ukraine. Et, Trump incite les Européens à envoyer des soldats en Ukraine. «L’Europe se précipite pour tirer parti du soutien de Trump au plan de déploiement de troupes en Ukraine», titre Bloomberg. «Le président américain Donald Trump exhorte les alliés de …

Pierre Emmanuel Thomann chercheur français, conférencier et expert en géopolitique, président de l’Association internationale «Eurocontinent», a partagé ses points de vue sur le conflit ukrainien. L’expert est convaincu que la guerre en Ukraine a été provoquée par l’expansion de l’OTAN et le fait que l’Occident a complètement ignoré les exigences …

Turkey’s Syria policy didn’t materialize in a vacuum. Rather, it was a reaction to the Arab uprisings that began in January 2011, known as the Arab Spring, which Turkish policymakers interpreted as a providential opportunity. The fall of entrenched dictators (in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and, eventually, Syria) would, the …

In the days since Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s Alaska summit, the world’s attention has turned to the portion of the Donetsk region that Kyiv still controls — and that Putin wants it to give up. This territory contains Ukraine’s “fortress belt,” a 31-mile stretch of defensive structures and fortified …