Carnegie Moscow Center
With popular protest movements engulfing the Middle East, Iran’s opposition movement hopes to rekindle the momentum that brought millions of Iranians to the streets in the summer of 2009.
Ever since the 2009 release of the U.S.-China Joint Statement pledging bilateral cooperation to promote “peace, stability and development” in South Asia, the role of these two countries in the subcontinent has come under increased scrutiny and criticism.
The divergent views held by China and the United States on maritime security have recently been on display in the Yellow and South China seas and it remains unclear whether the maritime realm will become an arena of cooperation or conflict.
In 2001, analysts at Goldman Sachs came up with the acronym BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) as a way to promote investment in emerging markets. But the acronym has taken on a new meaning since then, and the four countries have started using it to pursue their own political ambitions.
After decades of apparent stability, recent popular uprisings in the Arab world have changed the regional landscape dramatically. From Egypt to Libya, the region seems to face dramatic and varied political change and challenge.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was founded in 2001 by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, but the nature of the organization and its role remain somewhat unclear.
In the wake of India's successful test of a ballistic missile defense system, India's civil space program is coming under increasing international scrutiny.
India is often described as an emerging economy, yet adequate linkages are rarely made between the domestic and foreign drivers of its growth and how those drivers shape Indian foreign policy.
Despite the Egyptian revolution’s historic scope and achievements thus far, building a democratic and transparent society free from authoritarianism and corruption will require both reconstruction and institutional reform.
The recent presidential election in Belarus, followed by a crackdown on the opposition by President Aleksandr Lukashenka’s government, has strained relations between Minsk and the West.