The question is whether both leaders appreciate each other’s security fears.
- Professor of International Relations Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
- Non-Resident Senior Fellow, BASIC
Taiwan looms as an area for possible misunderstanding and potential conflict.
Iran feels that the US has repeatedly betrayed its trust in the diplomatic process.
If the nuclear bomb was born out of fear, then ensuring it is never used again requires replacing fear with trust.
After being attacked by both Israel and the US, Iran is likely to feel that it has no option to redouble its efforts to develop its own nuclear deterrent.
India and Pakistan have engaged in 4 wars since 1947. Tensions over the disputed region of Kashmir have often been the source.
The Cuban missile crisis showed the virtue of communication between leaders. India and Pakistan need to heed the lesson.
The very public falling out will be very difficult for the leaders to recover from.
When Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meet in Geneva, what will they learn from their predecessors more than 30 years ago?
When diplomacy is done online, it’s hard to pick up on the gestures and micro-expressions that help create trust.
The goal of the summit should not be the nuclear disarmament of North Korea.
30 years ago, Reagan and Gorbachev ushered in a new era of cordial relations. It’s time to recapture that spirit.
Latin America’s two biggest players spent much of the 1980s in a low-grade arms race – and they both had nuclear aspirations. How did they manage to diffuse the tension?
Talks begin in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss with Iran the thorny issue of its nuclear program, an area that has previously proved to be a stumbling block in normalising relations between the Islamic Republic…
The Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has announced it is sending a second team of weapons inspectors to Syria where, director-general Ahmet Üzümcü reports, destruction of al-Assad’s…
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