Why Putin Has Not Yet Launched a Total War in Ukraine On September 21, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his large-scale mobilization of fighting-age men, it was seen as a dramatic move toward total war. No longer could the Kremlin downplay the war in Ukraine as a mere …

In 2007, the year Apple first started making iPhones in China, the country was better known for cheap labor than for technological sophistication. At the time, Chinese firms were unable to produce almost any of the iPhone’s internal components, which were imported from Germany, Japan, and the United States. China’s …

The events in Georgia related to the new laws are not over, but are just beginning. Attempts to adopt the law “on foreign agents” at least in some version will be made again, and then, if the Georgian authorities have time and opportunity, norms (or existing ones) related to the …