International affairs
The Pandora Papers. Jessica Brandt explores how Moscow is handling a massive data leak of offshore financial records exposing misbehavior by powerful Russians as well as others, amplifying some findings and trafficking in disinformation.
U.S.-Mexico security cooperation. Vanda Felbab-Brown welcomes the restoration of a top-level U.S.-Mexico security dialogue, but warns the overlap in preferred security policies is minimal and inadequate for reducing fentanyl flows across the border and strengthening rule of law in Mexico.
German politics. Domestic tensions are likely to act as constraints on the foreign and security policy of Germany's next government, Constanze Stelzenmüller writes — but neither the country nor its allies can afford that.
Digital divides. Cheng Li warns of growing digital divides in least developed countries in the wake of COVID-19, as frictions worsen between the United States and China.
A reflection on General Odierno. In the Wall Street Journal, Michael E. O'Hanlon pays tribute to retired Army General Raymond Odierno, a "master carpenter" instrumental in the Iraq "surge."
