The BRICS is not a strategic threat to the United States
By George Monastiriakos Two weeks ago, the BRICS announced that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates…
Rich in Resources-and Instability: Exploring Africa’s resource mismanagement and global power dynamics
Editor’s Note: In this article, Senator Iroegbu, Maureen Okpe and Global Sentinel team, analysed in comprehensive fashion, the Geopolitics Series…
Russia’s menacing mix of religion and nuclear weapons
•In the Kremlin, faith and force go hand in hand By Dmitry Adamsky The first week of the Russian-Ukrainian war demonstrated…
Ukraine Crisis: Putin to oversee nuclear drills
By Tom Balmfort Summary Drills to test readiness and reliability of weapons Kremlin denies they are meant to increase tension…
The West – united on Ukraine, divided on Russia
•Western disagreements on the Russian military escalation in Eastern Europe play into Putin’s hand. By Marwan Bishara After months of…
The US sanctions toolkit can no longer hold off global challengers
By Howard W. French On Christmas Eve in 2002, I was suddenly dispatched from my base in Tokyo, where I…
Ukraine: Western countries sceptical as Putin announces troops withdrawal, conditions for peace
•Putin says Russia does not want war with Ukraine •Russian president, German chancellor meet in Moscow •US has not verified…
War: Putin’s mixed signals on Ukraine keep the West guessing
•Russia offers an olive branch, but still wields the sword •Vladimir Putin signals a readiness to keep negotiating with the…
Ukraine: Russia says dialogue with West to avoid war ‘not exhausted’, NATO agrees
•Russian foreign minister proposes to continue and expand talks on security guarantees •Defense minister says some of exercises closing to…
Nonstate armed actors in 2022: Alive and powerful in the new geopolitics
Editor’s Note: This piece is part of a series titled “Nonstate armed actors and illicit economies in 2022″ from Brookings’s Initiative…