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Nations are increasingly ‘playing the field’ when it comes to US and China – a new book explains explains why ‘active nonalignment’ is on the march

Five years after first putting forward the notion of ‘active nonalignment,’ former Chilean ambassador Jorge Heine returns to the subject.

07.07.2025 2

The Conversation

Jorge Heine

Turkey’s BRICS Balancing Act

This week’s BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, features a new participant: Turkey. A Kremlin official leaked last month that Ankara had applied to join...

23.10.2024 5

Foreign Policy

Jorge Heine

East is East, West is West − and Turkey is looking to forge its own BRICS path between the two

Turkey tends to march to its own drum in international affairs. Take the United Nations vote on Dec. 14, 2022, when the body’s General Assembly...

12.09.2024 2

The Conversation

Jorge Heine

In ‘bamboo diplomacy,’ late Vietnam leader Nguyen Phu Trong left a path for smaller nations to navigate great-power rivalries

As a rule, the U.S. secretary of state does not attend the funeral of the general secretary of a Communist party. Yet that is exactly what...

05.08.2024 4

The Conversation

Jorge Heine