Analysis

Victor Gilinsky There is a risk of a nuclear cascade across the region. The United States can stop it by enforcing the gold standard of nonproliferation. If Washington is serious about blocking the further spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, it must apply a firm rule: …

Giancarlo Elia Valori From 1618 to 1648 Europe was shattered by the violent and relentless conflict between Protestants and Catholics. After the end of the crusades cycle that had seen the first conflict between Christians and Arabs breaking out, what historians later called the “Thirty Years’ War” was …

Brian Raymond If the U.S. government wants to win the information wars, Cold War-era tactics won’t cut it anymore. A “misinformation newsstand” aiming to educate voters about disinformation ahead of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as seen in Manhattan on Oct. 30, 2018.  ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images On …

Giancarlo Elia Valori In Europe, in the United States and in South America, the feared second wave of Covid-19 epidemic is spreading. It is generating not only panic among the public and the institutions, but it is beginning to put health systems and economies under stress. They were …

Amna Shaukat “When adherents of one faith take to the extreme and force their religious views on those of other faiths, religious conflicts emerge” It is evident that prejudices arising from adherence to religious forms and imitation of ancestral beliefs  have hindered the progress of humanity thousands of …

  James M. Dorsey Political scientists Alan Chong and Quang Min Pham bring with their edited volume, Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), originality as well as dimensions and perspectives to the discussion about the Belt and Road that are highly relevant but …

Nassem Javed Pandemic may be over within the next 1000 days but the economic recovery may linger another next 10,000 days. Across the world, the future workers desperately seek “occupationalism” any occupational activities, like upskilling and reskilling to see their future clearly, otherwise, sluggish economies only headed towards …

Harish Thakur  Death toll has risen to thousands since the two ex-Soviet republics battle over the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) region. The war over the Caucasus region of NK has invited the global attention over its myriad dimensions and colossal possibility of breaking into a global conflict or World War …

For the second time, the rate of extreme poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region jumped again, nearly doubling between 2015 and 2018, according to a new World Bank report. The World Bank’s biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity report finds that the rate of extreme …