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Hungary's President Orbán in Helsinki, November 2018. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EPP_Helsinki_Congress_in_Finland,_7-8_November_2018_(45053885904).jpg>European People's Party (CC)</a>.

MAR 31, 2020 Article

Hungary and the Values Test

In the wake of the Hungarian parliament's vote to allow the executive to rule by decree, Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev reflects on the call by ...

Tehran's Azadi Tower lights in support of China against coronavirus, February 2020. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Azadi_Tower_lights_in_support_of_China_against_coronavirus_2.jpg">Amin Yari (CC)</a>

MAR 18, 2020 Podcast

The Coronavirus Pandemic & International Relations, with Nikolas Gvosdev

With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting all aspects of daily life around the world, what will be the effect on international relations? Will it increase cooperation ...

Taiwan, February 2020. CREDIT: <a href=“https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:蔡總統視導33化學兵群_02.jpg“>Military News Agency Zhou Lihang (CC)</a>.

MAR 17, 2020 Article

Does COVID-19 Change International Relations?

Does a global pandemic change the nature of international affairs? Is it likely to foster international cooperation, or will it promote disintegrative tendencies within the ...

Health checkpoints at an airport in Milan, Italy on February 7, 2020. CREDIT: <a href= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emergenza_coronavirus_(49501382461).jpg> Protezione Civile (CC)</a>.

MAR 14, 2020 Article

Peace By Poison: How the Coronavirus Could Fix Globalization Problems

How is the COVID-19 pandemic stress-testing the international system? Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev writes that the virus is accelerating a series of disintegrative processes, which ...

U.S. representative Zalmay Khalilzad (left) and Taliban representative Abdul Ghani Baradar (right) sign the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar on February 29, 2020. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present)#/media/File:Secretary_Pompeo_Participates_in_a_Signing_Ceremony_in_Doha_(49601220548).jpg">U.S. Department of State/Public Domain</a>

MAR 10, 2020 Podcast

The U.S.-Taliban Agreement & the Future of Afghanistan, with Jonathan Cristol

On February 29, the United States and the Taliban reached an agreement that could potentially end the longest-running war in American history. Jonathan Cristol, author of "...