P. K. Balachandran   India and Nepal appear to have a struck a balance on the boundary dispute in an effort to avoid friction at a time when the two countries need to focus on COVID-19 containment and prevention. At...

Denny Roy   Many commentaries discuss a resurgent ideological struggle between China and the United States. Ideology plays a role in the current downturn in US-China relations, but it is easy to oversimplify or misunderstand this dynamic. Importantly, ideology is...

Arul Louis   US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named William Burns, who guided the landmark nuclear deal between India and the United States but is a strong critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to be the director of the...

Peter Fabricius   Edgar Lungu’s government is unlikely to meet International Monetary Fund loan terms in an election year. Many African countries are sinking further into unsustainable debt. Last November Zambia epitomized the problem when it defaulted on a US$42.5...

Hasim Turker   The Trump administration decided to declassify a 2018 document on January 12, 2021, eight days before the new administration takes over: “U.S. Strategic Framework for The Indo-Pacific. ” While the move came as a surprise (it was originally...

Charles A. Ray Most Americans generally have one of two images of Africa: a primitive home of famine, disease, and civil war, or an idyllic motherland. Neither image is entirely correct. While Africa does have more than its fair share...

Kashish Parpiani and Pratnashree Basu   As Biden’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific remains under question, Trump’s legacy of bolstering regional powers could force US policy continuity. US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, recently outlined...