Geopolitics

Mansoor Ahmad The world witnessed major conflicts in 2025, with one of the most alarming escalations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, India and Pakistan. If it had not been stopped in time, there was a potential threat of a nuclear war. Donald Trump is taking credit for stopping …

US President Donald Trump on Monday said negotiations with Iran to end joint US-Israeli strikes were progressing, but warned that the country’s crucial energy infrastructure would be destroyed if talks do not soon bear fruit. “If for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably …

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday that discussions are ongoing to find a diplomatic solution to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, emphasizing that a military resolution is not on the table. Speaking to French broadcaster BFMTV on the sidelines of a G7 foreign affairs …

The Economic Sentiment Indicator declined by 1.5 points to 96.7 in the EU and dropped by 1.6 points to 96.6 in the euro area during March, official figures showed on Monday. The European Commission reported that the Employment Expectations Indicator also fell by 1.3 points to 97.3 in …

Raphael Dosson The Iranian conflict is falling, predictably, into the escalation trap—from what began as a vertically limited, regime-targeting air campaign to a horizontally expanding regional war, with the potential to become one of the most consequential geostrategic crises of the century, carrying far-reaching implications for the global …

Remote work is no longer the emergency patch it looked like in 2020. The latest Global Survey of Working Arrangements, which covered more than 16,000 college and university graduates across 40 countries in late 2024 and early 2025, found that average work-from-home time has settled at 1.27 days …

Paula Krugman For much of the past century and a half, oil markets have followed a familiar script. A geopolitical shock erupts, prices rise—often sharply—but the initial reaction tends to understate the depth and duration of the disruption. Only later, as physical constraints bite and expectations adjust, does …

Mohammed Ayoob President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran arose from a severe misunderstanding of US interests in the Middle East. President Donald Trump had long been opposed to US military involvement in wars in the Middle East. He had excoriated previous administrations for their military involvement in …

Frank Vogl Just recently, a “bomb” exploded in downtown Frankfurt when it finally became apparent that the Hilton Hotel there is part of the overseas investment network of the Iranian regime. Booking.com has suspended the hotel from its reservation service on news that a major investor in the …