Charlotte Lawson is a reporter at The Dispatch and currently based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Prior to joining the company in 2020, she studied history and global security at the University of Virginia. When Charlotte is not keeping up with foreign policy and world affairs, she is probably trying to hone her photography skills.
The African nation faces an internal power struggle with external influence.
A soft-spoken civil servant is challenging the Turkish leader's 20-year rule.
Saudi Arabia eyes diplomacy while Israel prepares for confrontation.
Benjamin Netanyahu delays his judicial reform package, but his fragile governing coalition stands on a precipice.
Russia and China’s leaders claim to reject a ‘Cold War mentality’ while escalating their anti-Western rhetoric.
Russia’s ‘hybrid occupation’ of Serbia threatens to derail its peace plan with Kosovo.
A Beijing-brokered normalization deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia may lack staying power, but it signals China’s long-term strategy.
In the face of threats from China and North Korea, can America’s East Asian allies find ways to cooperate despite a painful past?
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