These omens of a switch from an era of plenty to an era of scarcity is sending strategists back to the drawing board and shivers down the backbone of policymakers. Like the four horsemen in the book of revelation, climate change and resource scarcities bring disastrous occurrences to …

The United States and China have a problem that is shared by both countries in a similarly spectacular and worrisome fashion – the burgeoning inequality at the heart of their societies. While inequality has also been on the rise elsewhere, the world’s two largest economies suffer from it …

Giancarlo Valori The creation and development of cyberspace has profoundly changed people’s thinking and behavioural habits. Current academic discussions on a range of issues such as web policy, web ethics, web culture and ideology have also become borderline academic topics. Accurately grasping the connotation, characteristics and essence of …

Sajad Abedi Cyberspace, with its attractive and captivating technologies, is penetrating all elements of society without any resistance among the executive elite and individuals. Due to the empowerment of cyberspace, all the vital infrastructures of the country are being cyberbuddy at high speed in matter, form and purpose. …

Cyril Widdershoven   OPEC+ made clear after yesterday’s meeting that it is not going to bend over under pressure of the US Administration and several other consumer countries to open up the taps. With a very strong statement made by OPEC leader Saudi minister of energy Prince Abdulaziz …

Giancarlo Valori In Syria, after the decade-long and still unfinished war, the energy shortage resulting from the loss of control over the main oil fields in the East was replenished mainly by Iran and through smuggling from the Lebanon and Iraq. Nevertheless, due to a collapse in oil …

James Dorsey Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have averted for now further violence by caving in to demands of a militant, supremacist religious group. But in doing so, Mr. Khan is allowing radical ultra-conservatism to fester, undermining social cohesion, threatening economic development, and giving militants a say …

Giancarlo Valori After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last August, Russia warned against the threat from the extremist organisation of the Islamic State (ISIS) and the increase in drug trafficking. The Taliban have decided to cooperate with Russia, China and Iran to maintain regional security. The news …

Denis MacShane The EU-related obstinacy of Poland’s governing party is rooted not just in the desire to rewrite their own country’s post-war history, or even Europe’s. It is all a big-time deflection maneuver. As is becoming clearer every single day, Poland’s PiS government is fully poised to take …