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Strategic Rethinking Nearly 50 years after the Vietnam War, and more than 25 years since the US and Vietnam established diplomatic relations,…
Mel Gurtov
Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University.
Ideas about how to end the Ukraine war abound. None come from Ukraine. None have gained traction. Here, nevertheless, are three examples…
In his pathbreaking 1971 book, The Closing Circle, Barry Commoner proposed four laws of ecology: Everything is connected to everything else; Everything must go somewhere;…
Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, has passed the first law to scale back judicial independence, in line with the ambitions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
China’s economy is going through some of the same growing pains that Japan once experienced: lower consumer spending, overbuilding on homes and…
“I believe that my bilateral meetings — which totaled about 10 hours over two days — served as a step forward in…
China on Their Minds President Biden welcomed India’s prime minister Narendra Modi with much pomp and ceremony the other day. One senior…
What’s Going On? I’ve reported on the worrying signs of a large gap in communications between the US and China. But I’ve…
Among the many troubling trends in US-China relations these days is the lack of high-level diplomatic engagement. Until a few weeks ago,…
The US-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance began in 1953, at the end of the Korean War. Now 70 years later, President Biden…