Joshua Keating is a writer and analyst focusing on world news and foreign policy. Currently, he is a global security reporter at Grid.Previously, Keating was a staff writer and author of the World blog at Slate. Before that, he was a writer and editor at Foreign Policy magazine.Keating's work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Politico, Smithsonian Magazine, and Roads & Kingdoms. His first book, "Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood," was published in 2018. He has appeared as a commentator on international affairs on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and Al-Jazeera.