In recent years China has become a more central and dominant actor in the international arena at large and in the Middle East and Mediterranean region (“Mid-Med”) in particular. China’s current flagship project, the Belt and Road Initiative (“BRI”), in many ways, posits the Mid-Med as a focal area and hub.
Despite rapid intervention and a high level of community engagement, the scale of the damage suffered by the city of Beirut goes beyond the scope of the humanitarian response.
The dysfunction of the US health care system, dramatized during the current COVID-19 pandemic, is a strong indicator of a failed state.
Andrea Ghiselli (T.wai & Fudan University) is the author of the book “Protecting China’s Interests Overseas”, the first scholarly book-sized study that explores and pinpoints in a systematic way the origin and evolution of China’s approach to defending its interests overseas, and the use of its military to do so.
Armed non-state actors (ANSAs) are today’s new front lines of global peace and security. To deal with this, we will need political rather than military solutions. And we will need greater international cooperation – not another Cold War.
