Carnegie Moscow Center
A rising China, instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and weakening global institutions present both opportunities and obstacles for the future of the U.S.-India partnership.
While tensions exist in the relationship between China and Europe, enhanced bilateral cooperation would be beneficial to both sides and valuable for promoting global stability and development.
Recent developments in Russia's foreign policy reflect the country's struggle to preserve its status as a “great power” through modernization.
Morocco has made notable progress in fighting poverty over the last decade. However, its successes have not been enough to sustainably reduce national poverty levels.
The Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) poses a major threat to India, regional stability in South Asia, and is a growing threat to U.S. security interests.
Located in an important economic and transport corridor, the countries of the South Caucasus are grappling with the challenges of post-Soviet independence, internal and external tensions, and unresolved conflicts in three breakaway territories.
After the New START reduced U.S. and Russian deployments of strategic nuclear arms, Russia has decided to rely even more on relatively fast-flying ground-launched missiles to deliver the strategic nuclear weapons that remain.
In order for Japan to address the spectrum of regional and global challenges it faces, it must establish national objectives and a trajectory that preserves and reasserts Japanese identity.
Russia’s current push for economic modernization coincides with growing political activism and concerns, both among domestic groups and in the West, about the absence of political liberalization.
The growing imbalance between high-growth economies—led by China—and low growth ones will have increasingly profound implications for trade and investment patterns and the global distribution of power.