China's recent construction on disputed atolls in the South China Sea has accelerated the stop-start cycle of dispute there.

Europe’s ‘frozen conflicts’ have taken on added importance to the Putin government in the new normal of EU-Russia relations.

As Vladimir Putin fights ferociously to keep Western institutions out of former Soviet states in Eastern Europe, mineral-rich Mongolia on Russia’s southeast border faces a similar dilemma with different actors.

The US-Cuba rapprochement represents both a risk and an opportunity for an increasingly beleaguered Maduro government in Venezuela.

With elections due in less than 12 months, Myanmar is at a critical juncture between a path to full democracy and a return to military rule.

Though not necessarily the USSR of old, Vladimir Putin is building up a political culture that will outlast his rule.

Three years after the onset of the Arab Spring, headlines are still focused on the security threat of revolutionary Islamist militant groups. But we may be overlooking the rise of new social forces which are equally threatening to global security: Middle Eastern transnational criminal networks.