Giancarlo Valori The CIA, MI6 and the Russian Security Council have recently pointed out that India is emerging as a global hub for the development of intelligence operations on Afghan soil, while also becoming the vital sponsor of the military opposition to the Taliban. A joint working group …

Supporting separatist movements in Tibet or East Turkestan could backfire, but Washington has other options. The People’s Republic of China and its communist dictator Xi Jinping often depict their country as united and monolithic, even though in reality it is anything but. As Xi doubles down on efforts …

It’s of course too soon to know anything definitively on 2024. But as modern fundraising forces presidential campaigns to start much earlier, it’s never too early to start analyzing. Former President Donald Trump is acting like he’s running again. He has numbers well above every other potential Republican …

These omens of a switch from an era of plenty to an era of scarcity is sending strategists back to the drawing board and shivers down the backbone of policymakers. Like the four horsemen in the book of revelation, climate change and resource scarcities bring disastrous occurrences to …

The United States and China have a problem that is shared by both countries in a similarly spectacular and worrisome fashion – the burgeoning inequality at the heart of their societies. While inequality has also been on the rise elsewhere, the world’s two largest economies suffer from it …

Giancarlo Valori The creation and development of cyberspace has profoundly changed people’s thinking and behavioural habits. Current academic discussions on a range of issues such as web policy, web ethics, web culture and ideology have also become borderline academic topics. Accurately grasping the connotation, characteristics and essence of …

Sajad Abedi Cyberspace, with its attractive and captivating technologies, is penetrating all elements of society without any resistance among the executive elite and individuals. Due to the empowerment of cyberspace, all the vital infrastructures of the country are being cyberbuddy at high speed in matter, form and purpose. …

Cyril Widdershoven   OPEC+ made clear after yesterday’s meeting that it is not going to bend over under pressure of the US Administration and several other consumer countries to open up the taps. With a very strong statement made by OPEC leader Saudi minister of energy Prince Abdulaziz …

Giancarlo Valori In Syria, after the decade-long and still unfinished war, the energy shortage resulting from the loss of control over the main oil fields in the East was replenished mainly by Iran and through smuggling from the Lebanon and Iraq. Nevertheless, due to a collapse in oil …