Geopolitics

When Mark Carney took the job as governor of the Bank of England in 2013, he negotiated a five-year term rather than the traditional eight-year tenure. The sense was that he was eager to get back to Canada to run for office in the next federal election. But …

If the Arab world acts decisively to sideline Hamas, the organization’s financial, logistical, and public support may erode significantly. The highly anticipated Egyptian vision for the future of Gaza was announced in Cairo yesterday, broadcasting consensus across the Arab world against U.S. president Donald Trump’s “Riviera” plan for …

While the region remains a powder keg in many ways, it is clear that regional elites are ready to focus on cooperation and development. A substantial amount of ink and blood has been spilled throughout the many failed attempts to create a “new” Middle East. Yet the region’s …

“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.” –T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion (1939) Normally, geometry and chaos are mutually exclusive. Still, when applied to complex considerations of American national security and foreign policy, this juxtaposition could make perfect sense. …

Trump has made many grand promises: annexing Greenland to the United States, making Canada the 51st state, bringing the Panama Canal under American control, peacefully relocating two million people of Gaza and placing it under U.S. administration, expelling millions of illegal immigrants, imposing heavy tariffs on China, Mexico, …

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday expressed concern over Iran’s increased uranium stockpile and enrichment levels of up to 60%, saying they “cause me serious concern.” “Following my last report, Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched up to 60% U‑235 has increased to 275 …

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that five cryptocurrencies will be added to the country’s strategic reserves. Five cryptocurrencies are Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), Ethereum​​​​​​​ (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC), he explained on the social media platform Truth. Mentioning his promise before the US presidential election …

Maintaining any further support from Washington requires the Ukrainian president to rise to the heights of diplomatic mastery. On Friday afternoon, watching the coverage of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting in Washington, we witnessed a harsh lesson in realpolitik—and a crash course in applied psychology. A few …

In a shocking turn of events, the US has twice supported Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This first-ever move in decades on the part of the US not only included opposing a European-drafted resolution that …