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Alexander Langlois The fortunate reality is that neither actor desires a major escalation on their disputed border. In a turbulent year for both Israel and Lebanon, one would assume the two countries would work to avoid additional crises at all costs. Rather, Tel Aviv and Beirut are opting …

David Goldman It is simply too late to try to suppress China. The United States must either spend seriously on research and development, along with industrial policy, or it will lose the race for twenty-first-century technological supremacy. Western media, for the most part, has ignored a remarkable array …

Gregg Priddy  It simply does not make sense for the United States to make huge concessions to Saudi Arabia in the form of a formal security guarantee in response to concerns about China or the desire for Saudi-Israeli normalization. While President Joe Biden termed the idea of Saudi-Israel …

The creation of a BRICS currency has become throughout the past year one of the headline themes related not only to BRICS, but also the global financial markets. Along with the skepticism coming from most of the pundits from the developed world there is also an enormous number …

Sarah Neumann In the midst of the conflict over redefining the world order among the great powers, intensified by the Ukraine war, China’s changing role remains obscure in the dust of the war. Although no end to the bloody war in Ukraine is on the horizon, the idea …

Mohammad Imad Samuel P Huntington, in his book, “Clash of Civilizations”, explained that the “culture and cultural identities” would be shaping up the cohesion and conflict in the post-cold War period. Fast forward to the 21st century, we are witnessing many structural and ideological changes in the international …

Nadia Hilmi US President Joe Biden’s statements against his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping describing him as unsuitable for diplomacy come days after US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to China aimed primarily at helping repair relations between Beijing and Washington. In my opinion, these irresponsible statements by …

Nadia Helmi Perhaps it was a painful and shocking surprise in the first place for the members of the banned terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt and the region and its entanglements around the world, by declaring myself for the first time globally that I was the closest …

Andrey Kadmestov The recession in the Eurozone continues for the second quarter in a row now. Even though the decline in terms of economic dynamics remains small – just about 0.1 percent of GDP, realistically-minded experts believe this is the beginning of hard times waiting ahead. With foreign …