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Georgia’s Parliamentary Election and Its Implications for the West Georgia’s parliamentary election on October 26 is expected to be the country’s most consequential in recent memory. The Quincy Institute recently released a policy brief, The West and Georgia’s Crisis, that seeks to unpack the nuance behind the Georgian political imbroglio and challenge the conventional wisdom on Georgia in the U.S and Europe. With the Ukraine war on Georgia’s doorstep, the ruling Georgian Dream party appears to be seeking to walk a tightrope between Georgia’s pining for European Union membership and the state’s interest in balancing relations with all centers of power, including Russia. Meanwhile, the diffuse, yet staunchly pro-Western, opposition has sought to frame this election as a binary choice between a pro-European or pro-Russian future as they accuse the Georgian Dream of pushing the country into Moscow’s authoritarian embrace. To discuss the results…

Prior to joining the Quincy Institute as a research fellow in the Middle East program, Annelle Sheline, PhD was working as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Office of Near Eastern Affairs. But after a year of service, and having followed the devastation in Gaza, she decided to resign. As Dr. Sheline explained to AJ+, "I’d done what I could on the inside. I just couldn’t walk through the door anymore." https://lnkd.in/gqCXCTVB

What Is the Future of the Axis of Resistance? The so-called Axis of Resistance, which includes Hezbollah, Iran-aligned militias in Iraq, Assad-led Syria, the Houthis, Hamas, and others, has faced some of the most significant setbacks in its history. Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel in Tehran, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and most of the senior leadership were killed by Israel, and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who held considerable influence, was killed in Gaza. It remains unclear if Israel will target IRGC commanders within Iran as part of its promised retaliation for an Iranian ballistic missile attack, which followed strikes on Axis leaders. Political scientists have long debated the long-term effectiveness of leadership decapitation in terrorist groups, with mixed results. What lies ahead for the Axis of Resistance? Can it recover from the loss of high-profile leaders who had strong personal follow…

Book Talk: Neutrality After 1989 Neutrality in the growing hostility between the US on the one hand and Russia and China on the other is the ardent wish of most states around the world. During the Cold war, neutrality worked out very well for certain states including Finland and Austria; just as since then, it has worked well for states like Singapore and Vietnam. Washington’s policy however has been to try to pull states firmly into the US orbit. Partly for that reason, neutrality is an under-studied subject, both intellectually and practically. A rare and very valuable book on neutrality in recent decades, Neutrality Since 1989: New Paths in the Post-Cold War World, was edited by Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom. He will be joined by Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute, to discuss the book and the advantages and problems of neutrality for states today. The conversation will take place on …

This week, several non-Western nations met in Russia for the Brics summit. So who are the Brics nations and what is their relationship to the West? As Quincy's Director of the Global South Program, Sarang S., explained to the BBC: “Brics is made up of two prongs: there is the Global East, which is Russia and China, and there is the Global South, which is largely the developing world. And they have somewhat different motivations in forming the club.” What his full appearance here:

U.S.–China Science and Technology Exclusion: Pressures Building Toward C… Leaders in both the United States and China claim to have stabilized a relationship that recently seemed headed for open conflict. Yet actions on both sides bely the calming words. In particular, the realm of science and technology—which both sides see as crucial to their own nations’ future power and prosperity—has quietly become a pivotal field of battle as each side restricts the other and jockeys to dominate the key sectors. What are the flashpoints in the struggle for science and tech preeminence? How did the two countries move so quickly from robust science and tech cooperation to intense competition and damaging exclusion? How might tensions in this realm push toward geopolitical conflict, and what policies are required to limit that danger? Is there a path back to open exchange or is restriction the only prospect? Join us in addressing these questions with Kendra Schaefer,…

Israel’s Invasion of Gaza: One Year Later On October 13, 2023, Israel began ground operations in the Gaza Strip, less than a week after the Hamas attack on October 7. A year later, Gaza has been reduced to rubble: 90 percent of the population is displaced, over 42,000 people are confirmed dead, with thousands more likely dead or dying, and Israel now having invaded Lebanon on October 1st. Israel continues to occupy Gaza and is engaged in “systematically emptying” northern Gaza; while at the same time, Israel has escalated the conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon and may launch new strikes on Iran, potentially dragging in the U.S., the broader region, and even possibly Russia and China into a global conflagration. Where is the Middle East – and US policy toward the Middle East – a year after the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and Israel’s ensuing atrocities in Gaza? Is the region moving towards even greater conflict, or is …

A New Leader in Indonesia: What Are the Implications for the United States? Prabowo Subianto will take the helm on October 20 as Indonesia’s president after his big election win earlier this year at a time of both national optimism and global crises. The previous president Joko Widodo delivered strong economic growth, and Indonesia is projected to overtake Germany and the U.K. to become the world’s seventh largest economy by 2030. However, the growing U.S.-China rivalry continues to roil the region including the South China Sea. Washington would like to enlist Jakarta in its self-proclaimed global battle against autocracies. The escalating crisis in the Middle East is another stressor – Indonesia, along with many Global South states, has taken a different approach from the United States toward the ongoing war. How could U.S.-Indonesia relations shift with Prabowo as president? How will Jakarta and ASEAN respond to any further escalations in Taiwan or the Sou…

Book Talk – The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order The response of most of the international community to the Ukraine War has illustrated the greatly weakened ability of the US, and the West in general, to shape the policies of states around the world. Global economic architecture is being reorganized as the world diversifies away from excessive reliance on Western technologies, industries, transportation corridors, banks, payment systems, insurance systems, and currencies. A multipolar system is coming back into existence, though its future contours are unclear. Dr. Glenn Diesen is a leading analyst of these global trends. He will be joined by Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute and Artin DerSimonian, junior research fellow at the Quincy Institute. They will discuss Dr. Diesen’s just-published book, The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order (Clarity Press 2024). The conversation will take place on T…