Op-ed

Giancarlo Valori While trying to understand the prerequisites for the epic clashes for the conquest of space – towards which Artificial Intelligence today stands as an alternative of sharing responsibility for the downward curve of resources still available on planet Earth – I am reminded of a book …

It has finally been confirmed that the authority and its national ally in Turkey want to hold parliamentary and presidential elections before their supposed date of June 2023. President Erdogan has set the date of May 14 as “appropriate” for holding them, just as his ally, Devlet Bahceli, …

The recent visit of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Beijing (Feb 14-16), marked the first of any Iranian President to China in 20 years. The visit has generated much discourse over the further deepening of Iran and China’s bilateral relations. China’s geoeconomic presence in Middle East has increased …

Ankara is paying great attention to the security problems germinating in the southern borders of Turkey. This issue has become especially important for Turkey, given that it is on the eve of its presidential and parliamentary elections, which are to be held in June this year. Interestingly, President …

Those who are aware of Feminism would understand that it is not just a cozy club of women, where only conversation related to women’s issues talks place. Some would even contest that it is a club, feminism is like a school with a different department, focusing on a …

What a difference a century makes! Global economic recovery demands economic intellectualism to embrace futurism where tectonic shifts of power start moving from ‘knowledge-rich-nations’ to ‘population-rich-nations’ to change economic behavior across the world. How will all this unfold and what preparations are needed for positive results? Study the population-rich-nations and …

While not primarily useful for telling the time, nuclear clocks could allow scientists to test humankind’s fundamental understanding of how reality works. Thorsten Schumm is a clockmaker, but not the kind who sits at a workbench covered with springs and cogs, a magnifying loupe jammed into one eye. …

It doesn’t take one to be a Nostradamus to predict the general trends in international affairs for 2023 with certainty. This year will be difficult, turbulent and dangerous for all the actors in global politics. In what particular ways, though? What risks are most likely to transpire? Looking …

The recent rise in the value of the U.S. dollar against the Iranian rial has come against the backdrop of renewed efforts by many non-Western countries to reduce U.S. financial hegemony over international institutions. In a political statement on the first anniversary of the Ukraine war on Friday, …