As the largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East advances an aggressive anti-Israel agenda bordering on anti-Semitism, Chile is facing constant attacks on its democracy and its heritage of inclusiveness.
The world has turned its attention to the events unfolding on the Korean Peninsula. A spark of interest first ignited during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics has now evolved into a full-on charm offensive from North Korea (DPRK) and a puzzled group of foreign policy experts across the globe. Ahead of the U.S.-DPRK summit, which is scheduled to take place in either late May or early June, and to form a better picture of what we may expect to see in the coming months, we have asked four of our advisors to respond to the following prompt:
President Trump’s recent comments, suggesting some openness to revisiting the decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is potentially good news for U.S. economic and geopolitical interests.
Religion is playing an increasingly pervasive role, threatening Indonesia’s national ideology, a tradition of pluralism, inclusiveness, moderation, and tolerance that is known as Pancasila. This trend is displayed most dramatically when terrorists strike at churches, but has been manifest in the political realm for some time, and very clearly in the important 2017 Jakarta local election.
After a bipartisan, coast-to-coast outcry, President Trump signed an executive order maintaining the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy toward asylum-seekers and immigrants but – in a welcome move – terminating the practice of separating children from their families. While seemingly a win for a bipartisan approach to the issue, such a view is in truth a sadly superficial reading of the situation.