Giancarlo Elia Valori Currently natural gas is one of the most important US assets in its relations with the European Union. In fact, President Trump and President Jean Claude Juncker spoke at length about it during their last meeting at the White House at the end of July …

Mohammad Bazzi On October 2, Jamal Khashoggi, a well-known critic of the government of Saudi Arabia, walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain paperwork he needed to get married. He never walked out. Since then, Washington’s foreign-policy establishment has begun turning against Mohammed bin Salman, the …

CLAES G. RYN  In order to make sense of the term “populism” as ordinarily used today, we must first take into account that it has been defined almost exclusively by America’s permanent ruling establishment. This establishment is sometimes called the “deep state,” but we should resist a narrow …

Nikolas K. Gvosdev There is a way to break the dysfunctional cycle that hinders Moscow’s relationship with the West. George Beebe’s recent analysis has presented the policy community with a very useful paradigm for understanding recent alleged actions taken by the Russian special services in a number of …

James Dorsey  The fate of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, assuming that his disappearance was the work of Saudi security and military officials, threatens to upend the fundaments of fault lines in the Middle East. At stake is not only the fate of a widely respected journalist and …

Giancarlo Elia Valori A geoeconomic and strategic clash between China and France is currently emerging across Africa, with France supporting the United States in a new bilateral relationship, and China changing its economic penetration into the Dark Continent – in a new relationship with the Russian Federation. Let …

Shehab Al Makahleh America is in relative decline, but this is not attributed to the rise of China, India, Brazil and Russia, but to internal US political, economic and even cultural deterioration. As known through history, the decline of a great power does not necessarily lead to its …

Abdul Bari Atwan The laughter that broke out when US President Donald Trump addressed the UN General Assembly — after his opening remarks in which he spoke about his economic achievements and his commitment to humanity and world-wide prosperity and stability — sums up the view of most …

By Shehab Al Makahleh The Jordanian government has not made any formal request to sit at the negotiating table with the Syrian side to establish a mechanism to reopen the crossing point despite previous statements indicating the readiness of the Jordanian and Syrian sides to reopen the crossing …