Giancarlo Elia Valori In Europe, in the United States and in South America, the feared second wave of Covid-19 epidemic is spreading. It is generating not only panic among the public and the institutions, but it is beginning to put health systems and economies under stress. They were …

Amna Shaukat “When adherents of one faith take to the extreme and force their religious views on those of other faiths, religious conflicts emerge” It is evident that prejudices arising from adherence to religious forms and imitation of ancestral beliefs  have hindered the progress of humanity thousands of …

  James M. Dorsey Political scientists Alan Chong and Quang Min Pham bring with their edited volume, Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), originality as well as dimensions and perspectives to the discussion about the Belt and Road that are highly relevant but …

Nassem Javed Pandemic may be over within the next 1000 days but the economic recovery may linger another next 10,000 days. Across the world, the future workers desperately seek “occupationalism” any occupational activities, like upskilling and reskilling to see their future clearly, otherwise, sluggish economies only headed towards …

Harish Thakur  Death toll has risen to thousands since the two ex-Soviet republics battle over the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) region. The war over the Caucasus region of NK has invited the global attention over its myriad dimensions and colossal possibility of breaking into a global conflict or World War …

For the second time, the rate of extreme poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region jumped again, nearly doubling between 2015 and 2018, according to a new World Bank report. The World Bank’s biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity report finds that the rate of extreme …

Michael Young  Much attention in recent weeks has been focused on the aborted formation of a new government according to a road map laid out by French President Emmanuel Macron. Yet in his press conference on September 27 related to the situation in Lebanon, Macron said something else …

 James M. Dorsey Public opinion polling in the Arab world suggests that autocratic leaders like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed, have gotten some things right. Both men have to varying degrees replaced religion with nationalism as the ideology legitimizing their …

Adomas Abromaitis Sanctions are used as a tool of foreign policy by many governments. This month such restrictions were imposed on Belarus in order to force Belarus leader Alexsandr Lukashenko to leave office. Political and economic situation in this country has been remaining complex for about two months since …