Op-ed

Arshad Khan  If the enduring message of Christmas is of goodwill to all men, then the case for extending this spirit year round is irrefutable. There is a true story from WWI when British and German soldiers began singing Christmas carols and were soon out of their trenches …

Nadia Helmi There are many surprising paradoxes and analyzes that must be stopped when analyzing the American democracy summit, chief among which is the inclusion of the “International Institute for Democracy and Election Aid” in November 2021 of the United States of America for the first time in …

The future of work—with advanced technologies and new working arrangements—is here and is changing economic opportunities and employment relationships. However, according to the 2021 APEC Economic Policy Report, certain economic structures, laws and institutions across APEC remain products of the past. The report highlighted four megadrivers of the future …

Dmitri Trenin Not long ago, a popular Russian joke went: “Those who do not want to listen to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will have to deal with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.” Now it is official. President Vladimir Putin often makes statements on foreign policy. Just last month, he …

Hellmut Koller he Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), adopted in 2017, has entered into force on the 22nd of January of this year and the number of ratifying states continues to grow, with Mongolia being the latest to announce its accession. This positive trend is …

Anosh Samuel Soon after the Internet was founded, half of the world’s population (16 million) in 1996 had been connected to Internet data traffic. Gradually, the Internet began to grow and with more users, it contributed to the 4 trillion global economies in 2016 (Nye, 2016). Today, high-speed …

Ahmad Abbas Weeks after the announcement of the Aukus Alliance, which aims to confront China in the Asia- Pacific region, the United States launched a summit for democracy, aimed at uniting the countries of the region and building more military alliances, which must be based on an ideological …

Giancarlo Valori  The ethos of web culture is based on the principles of: unlimited and unrestricted freedom of information, privacy, general availability, quality of information, no harm, limitation of the excessive use of web resources and the principle of inviolability of intellectual property. The actual implementation of these …

Aladdin Saleh After a decade of disastrous civil war, thousands of deaths and a complete collapse of the political system Libyans have finally seen a glimpse of light in the ongoing chaos – the nation is preparing to hold a general election. Those few with more optimistic expectations …