by Asia Pacific Task Force | Apr 19, 2021 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The US policy toward China has come under the spotlight after the first high-level talks between the two countries in Alaska. This was the first serious US contact with the country since election of President Biden. On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden was officially...
by Nour Moufed Aldahabreh | Apr 16, 2021 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Policy Brief
1. Background: The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi on 21 March announced that Jordan made a defence agreement with the United States that allows free entry of US forces, aircraft, and vehicles onto the kingdom’s territory. The...
by Fatima Abo Alasrar* | Apr 1, 2021 | Commentary
On Monday, March 22, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, proposed an initiative to end the war in Yemen in an offer that addressed various long-standing issues that the Houthis wanted to resolve, including lifting land and sea...
by Gamal Gasim* | Mar 31, 2021 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management
When a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states launched a military intervention against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on March 26, 2015, the Yemeni people had no idea that they were witnessing the beginning of the costliest conflict in their country’s long and...
by Tuba Yalinkilic* | Mar 11, 2021 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The one-China principle asserts that there is only one sovereign state under the name of ‘China’. Both People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC or Taiwan) claim that sovereignty should belong to one power. The roots of the principle go back to...
by Maaike Verbruggen* | Mar 9, 2021 | Commentary, Disruptive Technologies, Political & Hybrid Warfare
The world got a sneak peek at the future of war last fall when two former Soviet republics in the Caucasus Mountains launched a high-tech barrage of loitering munitions as well as Turkish-, Israeli-, and locally-made drones at each other during a six-week fight over a...
