U.S.-China Relations: From Constructive Stability to Thin Ice
The recent summit between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump inaugurated a period of stability that will be modestly constrictive. That is a significant improvement on much of the Biden presidency, when ties were more confrontational. But at the same time, the two sides are eroding the economic foundation of the relationship—pulling away from […]
The Greater Middle East: The Party is Over
When the concept of the Greater Middle East was being actively debated at the 2004 G8 summit at Sea Island, in the United States, the project drew broad criticism. Many saw it as an instrument for interfering in the domestic affairs of sovereign states in order to impose Western models of development—something that could, in […]
Punching Above its Weight: The Long Reach of the Cuban Revolution
After the American extraction of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela this January, the bell began tolling for the main recipient of his oil-based generosity: the Castro dictatorship in Cuba. A disastrous economic downturn had already devastated the island’s welfare since the beginning of the second Trump administration, but the end of the Caracas-based oil subsidy made […]
Does Albania Have a Foreign Policy?
The question that is the title of this article arises at a time of profound geopolitical transformation, in which the norms of the previous world order, norms from which we Albanians benefited, are increasingly being disregarded. The world is no longer predictable. Power politics has returned, and security is once again at the center of […]
Predictability is the Asset: Tanzania, Cooperation, and a Fairer Global Order
A fragmenting world is pushing every country to pick sides. Tanzania’s argument runs the other way: the answer to disorder is more cooperation and a fairer set of global rules, and for a country like ours that’s an investment strategy as much as a foreign policy. In 1970, the governments that would carry the Non-Aligned […]