In the world we find ourselves in, the international system increasingly demands certainty. Not clarity of purpose, but clarity of alignment. States are expected to signal loyalty loudly and often.

Kathmandu, Aug. 13 -- At the height of the Cold War in 1961, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) emerged from the 1955 Bandung Conference of Asian and African nations. The Bandung moment was a ...

Vietnam’s goal since the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia has thus been to avoid the polarization that had plagued Indochina between 1977 and 1991, and led directly to its dual-front war with ...