Putin Draws a Line in the Kurils — and Opens a New Era of Cold Relations with Japan

Japan Turns Toward Azerbaijan: Oil, Logistics, and a New Eurasian Strategy The first official visit to Tokyo in seventeen years by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov may have received relatively restrained coverage in the Japanese press,...

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has departed for Japan on an official visit. It is the first official visit by an Azerbaijani foreign minister to Japan in the past 17 years. When Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov traveled...

The official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China on May 19–20 was far more than another demonstration of Sino-Russian partnership. Talks between Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping revealed that Moscow and Beijing are steadily shaping their own model of global order — one designed as an alternative to the Western-led international system dominated by the United States and its allies.

Every time tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz, global markets react almost instinctively: oil prices surge, governments grow anxious and investors rush toward safe-haven assets.