Op-ed

Dr. James Dorsey China is leading the charge in a bid to undermine accepted concepts of human rights accountability and justice. The Chinese effort backed by autocrats elsewhere has turned human rights into an underrated, yet crucial battleground in the shaping of a new world order. China is …

Ekaterina Entina and Dejan Novakovic Presently, an extremely unstable situation has developed in the Balkans, with a potentially adverse effect both on the Balkan countries and on the system of international relations as a whole. Intraregional actors are not able to cope with problems that have befallen them. …

Hanif Ghaffari In her remarks, the United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asserted that Trump’s border wall campaign has nothing to do with border security. She said it’s one of the US President’s plans for energizing his conservative base, and in this way, he aims to distract the …

Dr. Shehab Al Makahleh No country in the world has so far realised complete gender egalitarianism. Arab states are still lagging behind and many of them rank at the lowest levels, according to the 2018 Global Gender Gap Report.  In the past few years, Jordan has set a …

GIANCARLO ELIA VALORI  If we want to study Israel’s political and military positions, we must at first analyse Syria.  For Israel the problem in Syria is Russia, although it is apparently Iran.  In fact, one of the de-escalation areas is in the Golan Heights  and certainly the Jewish …

Giancarlo Elia Valori Syria is the great rotating platform of the Middle East. Paraphrasing the statement by Mackinder, the well-known British geopolitician of the early twentieth century, “who  rules Syria commands the Middle East, who rules the Middle East controls Europe and Africa”. This is the profound meaning …

The refusal of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to receive visiting US National Security Advisor John Bolton — who left for home with his head bowed in humiliation — raises many questions about the unexpected crisis that has erupted in American-Turkish relations. How serious is it? What steps …

Tom Clifford Making predictions, as common as they are at this time of year, are notoriously unreliable. Add China into the mix and fate will be tempted to a dangerous degree. An inconvenient anniversary But there is one thing we can say about China in 2019 that is …

Andy Duncan Are we beginning to witness more of a sea-change in the world? We see President Donald Trump in the United States attempting to roll back some of the American state. We see Chancellor Sebastian Kurz attempting to roll back some of the Austrian state. And now …