While facing an uphill political battle at home, Turkey’s recently re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan handily won the diaspora vote. He did so by capitalizing on the resentment and alienation felt by second- and third-generation Turkish immigrants who often feel estranged in the countries where they were born.
explains how displacement can make expatriates and minorities more susceptible to extremist ideologies.
Calls at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore to improve military-to-military communication between the US and China, especially in light of increasingly aggressive encounters at sea and in the air, fell on deaf ears. Despite the best efforts of the US and its allies, China is in no hurry to re-engage.
considers the implications of the complete collapse of defense diplomacy between the US and China.
To think that technology will save us from climate change is to invite riskier behavior, or moral hazard. Whether a climate solution creates new problems has little to do with the solution, and everything to do with us.
offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.
巴黎——2003年致使萨达姆·侯赛因政权倒台的伊拉克战争只有伊朗一个确实的赢家。以美国为首的军事干预削弱了美国在中东的传统盟友逊尼派政权,同时却增强了美国在该地区的主要敌人伊朗伊斯兰共和国的实力。
事隔十年,我们似乎见证了该地区另一个颇具讽刺意味的结果:至少到现在为止,以色列似乎成了“阿拉伯之春”革命运动中唯一确实的赢家。
多数以色列人肯定会强烈反对这样的解释。他们面临着更加动荡且前途未卜的地区环境。就在几天前,以色列的铁穹导弹防御系统刚刚拦截了一枚西奈半岛袭击埃拉特港的火箭弹。
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