Op-ed

The geopolitical maneuvering emanating from the Coronavirus (Covid19) outbreak has taken its toll on international relations. The world order is witnessing an esoteric transformation with the possible development of a ‘unipolar moment’, but not for the United States this time. The United States did enjoy it in the …

Attacking Biden over China is not the president’s best bet to win in 2020. Despite—or because of?—his daily press conferences, President Donald Trump’s popularity ratings have been steadily sinking. A Gallup poll has his approval at 43 percent and his disapproval rating at 54 percent. As former Vice-President …

 James Jay Carafano Make no mistake: The global struggle with China is about to go to the next level. Or two. Or three. By triggering a global disease outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party’s reprehensible behavior crossed the last line, leaving other nations no recourse but to push back. …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Senior Researcher and Analyst of International Affairs The beginning of the Turkish-Saudi goes to 1932. Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have had embassies and consulates in the opposite country. Both countries are members of joint organizations and institutions such as the Organization …

Giancarlo Elia Valori Today, April 16, 2020, the negotiations between Gantz, former IDF Chief of Staff – who had been entrusted by the old Speaker of the Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, with the task of forming a government – and the current Prime Minister Netanyahu have broken off. In …

Mohammed Ayoob The Chinese culpability in the global spread of the coronavirus, which is now a proven fact, has provided the United States the opportunity to put China in the dock in the hope that it would substantially erode the prestige and soft power that China has accumulated …

Cameron Macgregor The pandemic may turn out to be the clarion call that prefigures long-overdue changes that no emergency fund of “helicopter money” can delay much longer. The Antonine Plague in 165 ACE killed five to ten million people over a decade and marked the end of political …

Anna L. Jacobs Could such a move give a boost to Donald Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’? Morocco could be the next Arab state to establish formal diplomatic relations with Israel, becoming the third to do so after Egypt and Jordan. The move could have far-reaching implications for …

Pankhury Harbansh   INTRODUCTION: Brazil is seen as a portentous economic and political power in the region of Latin America. In addition, Brazil also is a key player on the world stage given its role in BRICS and BASIC.  Brazil’s emergence in the international arena as a unique …