Amidst the mammoth article inventories of think tanks and geopolitical institutes, one can quickly find writings tackling almost any global issue. The most constructive of these proposals offer tangible strategies with which governments may pursue a variety of foreign policy objectives and it is here where the most cunning, successful strategists apply one of the…

Handling a nuclear-armed Russia is like playing a game of chess. It is rarely void of faultless moves: each player carries the consequences of difficult decisions. It is emphatically a game of risk, but what it takes to win is unclear in this case.  While the fall of the Berlin Wall saw politicians shelving nuclear…

Western vaccines have made headlines across the world with Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna leading the way. Yet their Chinese counterparts have gone largely unnoticed. There are four main producers working on five separate vaccines in China who all face the same issue: that China, using swift and strict lockdowns, among other measures, has effectively dealt with…

Introduction: Beyond Borders, Bodies and Law In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, ‘too big to fail’ became a viral catchphrase to indicate that modern corporations overwhelmingly operated at a scale that made them institutions in the modern political economy with one important caveat. Their market functions, roles and operations were beyond the…

One of the most overused moral tropes, the eternal battle between the dark and the light, served as the overarching theme during Joe Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and continued through his victory speech. Biden employed religious iconography, often associated with the evangelical right, to paint America as “shaped by the constant…

When Joe Biden assumes the presidency in January 2021, American foreign policy will undergo a reset. This will include returning to diplomatic norms, reestablishing America’s unwavering commitment to democracy, underscoring US fidelity to NATO, and strategically reengaging China. With more than four decades of foreign policy experience, Biden will bring a level of reassurance to…

Heading into the 2022 midterm elections and beyond, the Republican voter base will likely count among the most impassioned and indignant voting blocs in recent memory. This suggests that the Biden administration’s climate policy efforts, however bold and progressive, must be able to withstand potential regressive efforts by future Republican legislative majorities and administrations. I…

February 2014, somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea, between Turkey and Greece: two gunshots ring out from a Greek coastal guard vessel. Passengers on a smuggler’s boat headed for the Greek island of Chios begin to panic. Through loudspeakers a Greek coastal guard screams “Stop!” repeatedly, like a mantra. But the smuggler doesn’t stop the boat….