Op-ed

Can Biden’s approach succeed where other U.S. approaches have failed? NY Attorney General: Trump Probe Now Criminal The Biden administration’s initial approach to Russia contrasts sharply with that of every other American administration since the end of the Cold War, all of which began by calling for improved …

Giancarlo Elia Valori Japan is a long and narrow island country from North to South and narrower from East to West. Its land surface (377,975 square kilometres) is little larger than Italy’s. It borders the Pacific Ocean to the East and looks across the ocean to the United …

Ivan Timofeev The US and the EU have imposed new sanctions against Russia because of the so-called “Navalny case”. The European Union has activated the human rights sanctions mechanism approved by the EU Council in December 2020. On March 2, the EU added four Russian security officials to …

Giancarlo Elia Valori As usual, with a view to understanding what is happening in the Middle East, we need to rewind the common thread that links the great issues on the table, from the origins to the present day. Also the new flare-up of war, which has been …

The world is witnessing the worst human miseries due to the Israeli attacks in Gaza which has killed at least 200 Palestinians(according to the official data) in a week including 59 children. The real picture on the ground would be much higher. According to Israel, Hamas killed ten …

Giancarlo Elia Valori On April 14, the United States of America announced that it would withdraw all its troops stationed in Afghanistan from May 1 to September 11, 2021. On the same day, NATO also said it would coordinate with the White House military to initiate the withdrawal. …

Mohamamd Kabar How the US is seeing the future world is revealed in a recent report, Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World, published by the National Intelligence Council of the US. This report of political, social and economic estimates is prepared through an integrated process for every …

Pourya Nabipour Although the recent China-Iran deal prompted extensive debates in international media, Iran is not the only country in the region to keep up a strategic partnership with China. The GCC states such as Saudi Arabia (since 2016) and the United Arab Emirates (since 2018) do as …

Abdul Wasay Ajmal Afghanistan has for a greater part of her history seen conflict of various types and magnitudes. From warring warlords fighting to gain dominance, to foreign intervention bent on achieving their political objectives. The people of Afghanistan divided along the lines of ethnicity, class and sect …