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Tensions have eased slightly on the Korean Peninsula, but after years of playing international powers against each other to enhance its own position, Pyongyang may not be receptive to calls from the United States, China, and South Korea to return to six party talks.
Khodorkovsky's conviction illustrates the dead-end road that Russia is on and underscores the personalized nature of Russia’s regime, despite attempts to don a “human face” over the past two years.
To solve the problems of the North Caucasus, Moscow needs to stop the trend toward de-modernization and de-industrialization of the region, as well as to help raise local elites and support the closer integration with the rest of the Russian Federation.
The level of education among job seekers in Tunisia has improved, yet, the government still fails to make policies that guarantee enough job creation to absorb new entrants to the labor market, causing the country's youth feelings of frustration and despair.
After New START, the next step to reduce nuclear arms must deal with two major issues: tactical nuclear weapons and other nuclear weapon states.
Russia’s GDP is expected to grow at low rates the next two years and the country's budgetary outlook remains uncertain, while recent riots and violence suggest that the country’s political situation is deteriorating.
The presidential elections in Belarus were marred by serious irregularities in the voting process, which led to violence on the streets of Minsk. The key question at this point is why, despite moderate improvements over previous elections, things went wrong.
Alexander Lukashenko may have won a fourth term as president of Belarus, but he now faces both an opposition capable of mass mobilization and international partners in Europe and Russia that are growing tired of paying to maintain his status quo.
The economic and social conditions of Egypt’s youth require the government to take concrete actions to reform the education, labor, and credit markets.
The mass unrest in Moscow this December has demonstrated the failure of the authorities to maintain stability in a multi-ethnic and multi-faith country.