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 Saskia Glas and Niels Spierings September 11 attacks in New York City: view of the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty. Source: US National Park Service, Wiki CC In reaction to the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, public debates droned an ongoing refrain …

Giancarlo Elia Valori Syria’s current prospects are no longer a return – albeit a laborious one – to an old pre-2015 unitary State, but the persistence of a very fragmented territory. This, however, responds to a logic of various countries’ future participation in the great reconstruction business. The …

Paul R. Pillar The political careers of President Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have become increasingly linked. The linkage goes well beyond the parallel personal interests they have in such things as the hyping of recent diplomatic developments involving Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. …

J. Michael Cole Without a doubt, we have entered the most dangerous phase in cross-Strait relations since 2003-2004, if not the Taiwan Strait Missile Crisis of 1995-1996. It was a line at sea, separating two sides locked in a decades-long conflict. A gentleman’s agreement rather than an official …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Senior Researcher and Analyst of International Affairs Finally, after two years of consultations and negotiations, the peace agreement between the US and the Taliban was signed in Doha, Qatar. But regarding the negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban, this is the first time …

Giancarlo Elia Valori The issue of the new relationship between Israel and Bahrain, following the agreement already signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, is particularly interesting. It marks a realignment of the Sunni world with the Jewish State, clearly against Iran, and hence indirectly with the …

Giancarlo Elia Valori The issue of the new relationship between Israel and Bahrain, following the agreement already signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, is particularly interesting. It marks a realignment of the Sunni world with the Jewish State, clearly against Iran, and hence indirectly with the …

Eric Zeusse On March 10th of this year, there were 290 daily new U.S. cases of Covid-19(coronavirus-19). On March 13th, U.S. President Donald Trump declared a pandemic national emergency, because the number of daily new cases was now suddenly doubling within only three days. However, no lockdown was …

Carice Witt  What will it take to rescue the global economy in the wake of COVID-19? Are adjustments, improvements or amendments enough? Haven’t we done this before? Maybe it’s time to rethink this with a mindset, not of ‘starting again’ which would tend to invite ‘again’ thinking, but …