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Sep 16, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Bruce Jones
A signature accomplishment of Secretary Lloyd Austin’s tenure at the U.S. Department of Defense has been a meaningful tightening of America’s alliances in Asia. Yet even against that backdrop—the strengthening of U.S.-Japan operational ties, the easing of Japan-Korea tensions, the reopening of basing facilities in the Philippines, and the tightening of U.S.-Japan-Korea trilateral diplomacy—the U.S.-Australia relationship stands out.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Bruce Jones
The topic of the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council—its performance, and its membership—is once again on the international agenda. High visibility debates, vetoes, and failures over Russia’s reinvasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Gaza crisis have drawn international attention back to the body, and to the U.N. Charter itself.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
theunion.com | Bruce Jones
As a voter in Nevada County’s Supervisor District II, I just received a mailer from the Coalition for Literacy in Torrance, California. It masquerades as a voter guide for liberals, recommending Democrats in the March primary, until our Board of Supervisors race, where it recommends Robb Tucker. However, Tucker is an extreme conservative.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Bruce Jones
The Red Sea might just be history’s most contested body of water. It has been the site of imperial or great-power competition for at least 500 years, from the Portuguese search for the sea route to Asia all the way to the Cold War. It remains the most important trade link between Asia and Europe.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Peter Schroeder |Jim Townsend |Bruce Jones
During the past several weeks, a string of attacks on critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea has highlighted the challenges NATO faces in protecting itself against hybrid threats. After the discovery of damage done to a gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, news soon broke that a data cable connecting Estonia and Sweden had also been damaged.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Bruce Jones
While tough fighting continues in Ukraine and the world’s attention is riveted on the dramatic and dangerous developments in the Middle East, a very worrying set of developments is unfolding further north. On October 15, Finnish authorities noticed a significant drop in pressure in a major natural gas pipeline that connects Finland and Estonia. They later confirmed that the pipeline had sustained significant damage, taking it offline for several months.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Bruce Jones |Adrianna Pita
The 2023 U.N. General Assembly featured increased calls from countries of the “Global South” for a greater role in global governance and the major multilateral institutions. Bruce Jones explains how the U.S., China, and Russia are competing for the global South’s attention, why calls to reform of the U.N. Security Council may now have a chance, and highlights a new multilateral framework called the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Bruce Jones |Daniel Hamilton
Not all eyes are trained solely on Ukraine or the western reaches of the Pacific. For the past 16 months, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s have also focused closer to America’s own shores, on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
thepressroom.info | John McArthur |Anthony F. Pipa |Bruce Jones |Landry Signé
World leaders are gathering in New York this week for the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to discuss the biggest global challenges and how to address them. Below, Brookings experts share what they will be watching for and highlight critical issues that deserve leaders’ attention. A summit of renewal for the SDGs? By John W.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | John McArthur |Anthony F. Pipa |Bruce Jones |Landry Signé
World leaders are gathering in New York this week for the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to discuss the biggest global challenges and how to address them. Below, Brookings experts share what they will be watching for and highlight critical issues that deserve leaders’ attention. A summit of renewal for the SDGs? By John W.
