For the CCP, the Century of Humiliation from 1839-1949 represents not just a shared memory, but a perpetual justification for aggressive, revisionist foreign policy

The idea of a civilization can be used to bind disparate peoples into a shared political project. But in Iran, Turkey, India, and China, civilizational rhetoric increasingly serves to marginalize religious minorities.

States like Iran, Russia, and China are increasingly turning to “civilizational state” rhetoric as a means to delegitimize democracy and human rights as Western imports

What does Christian realism have to say about competition with China for economically critical rare earth minerals?

India’s outreach to the Taliban since 2021 reflects the tragic decisions all nations must face between bad and worse actors

To understand China’s longterm strategy of undermining the West, we must look to Antonio Gramsci, the neo-marxist thinker known for popularizing the concept of a “long march through the institutions”