Emerging Risks

He is threatening to invade Ukraine because he wants democracy to fail—and not just in that country.

The 'breakout time' is different from the time it would take to build a nuclear weapon. Western officials think Iran hasn't figured out how to build the core of a bomb or attach it to a missile.

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Bits of pro-Russian rhetoric are a far cry from substantive support—or preparations for an invasion of Taiwan.

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Officials say Moscow planning to stage fake attack and circulate ‘propaganda video’ of mock explosion

Airplanes flying into Israel from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea are experiencing navigation problems again. This is reportedly due to a signal spoof...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says even if there is a nuclear agreement with Iran, "it will not bind us."

The complexity involved in planning for such a challenging long-range mission and synchronizing all of the required efforts is enormous, yet fully within the IAF's scope.

A few years after making the [prison] documentary, I began studying critical race theory and the racialist ideologies that are becoming entrenched in American schools. Though the comparison is provocative, frightening parallels exist between the racialist logic of the prison yard and the racialist pedagogy of many public schools.

Putin understands what many in Washington, D.C., refuse to—the future is multipolar.

In a letter to Iran’s supreme leader, the hard-line former chief negotiator reportedly proposed ramping up enrichment to 90%.

The U.S. retains a moral obligation to deny the one country in the world that threatens genocide against Jews the means to carry out that threat.

With an estimated 100,000 Russian troops positioned near Ukraine’s border and President Biden promising to assist Ukraine against a Russian invasion, the risk of nuclear weapons use is once again on the rise. During the Cold War, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), long-range strategic bombers, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) were the primary threat to human […]

A Belgian financial messaging service is once again at the center of an international sanctions fight.

Ambassador’s comments are a rare example of the communist state’s officials talking directly about the possibility of war

China’s Ambassador Warns of “Military Conflict” With the US Over Taiwan: In a rare explicit threat to the possibility of open warfare with the U.S., China’s ambassador to the United States has said the two countries could face a “military conflict” over the future of Taiwan. “Let me emphasize this…the Taiwan issue is the biggest […]

  As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question, in particular, poses itself: How can it be that having defeated the

Foreign journalists in China are facing physical assaults, hacking, and trolling according to a report.

Gulf states have worked overtime to convince the Arab world that Iran, and not Israel, is their existential enemy - and Palestinians have paid the price

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In his first one-on-one interview since assuming his post in Washington, D.C., last July, Ambassador Qin Gang has an unusually blunt message for the U.S.

There is no political goal worth achieving that can be won through a civil war. The costs would be far greater than many seem to imagine.

The world could lose half of its best coffee-growing land under a moderate climate change scenario. Brazil, which is the currently world’s largest coffee producer, will see its most suitable cof

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The real prize in Ukraine is the end of American influence in Europe.

The U.S. foreign policy establishment continues to view the very idea of spheres of influence as a dangerous atavism that must not be allowed a second act.

Human suffering, economic shock and a geopolitical realignment

The question from Western strategists is just how far Russia will go to escalate a nuclear confrontation. Putin certainly has options.

On Wednesday, January 26, the United States’ ambassador in Moscow, John Sullivan, personally delivered a memorandum to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs containing the official US reply to earlier Russian demands on security guarantees. Simultaneously, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) handed over to Moscow its separate written response. Both Washington and Brussels refused to deny countries like Ukraine …