Events
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Whither Hungary?
On April 12, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party won a projected two-thirds supermajority in Hungary’s parliamentary elections, ending Viktor Orbán’s sixteen-year tenure as prime minister. This “regime change” of sorts heralds a Western pivot in Budapest’s foreign policy, with the incoming government indicating a willingness to cooperate with the EU on anti-corruption reforms and aid for
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Gyeonggi Province: The Engine That Leads U.S.-Korea Partnership
On October 29, 2025, the Center for the National Interest, the Gyeonggi Research Institute, the Korean Association for Policy Studies, and the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) held an international conference on the evolving dimensions of U.S.–Korea relations. The conference highlighted the
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Natural Gas Markets: Disruptions, Infrastructure, and Security (w/ Mel Ydreos)
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has abruptly severed a fifth of global oil and LNG supply. Far from simply spiking energy prices, a supply chain shock of this magnitude will have cascading impacts across the entire global economy. The current crisis threatens to halt as much as 30% of global fertilizer production, for
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Has World War III Already Started?
Some experts have noted that World War II began as a series of separate conflicts in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and that it did not become a “world war” until cross-regional linkages among allies and adversaries made it one. This raises many questions about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine and U.S.-Israel-Iran wars, the connections between these
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Can Operation Epic Fury Transform the Middle East for the Better?
The Iranian regime is in free fall, with the leadership devastated by targeted strikes and different security forces appearing to act without coordination. American and Israeli forces have dominated Iran’s airspace and decimated large parts of its missile program. Operation Epic Fury is moving at a rapid pace with surprisingly few casualties, as the Islamic
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