OPINION

Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh Despite the strained relationship between certain political parties and the state, the realm of Jordanian political thought still struggles to define the concept of political opposition within our political system. The prevailing perception between the state and its critics and dissenters remains one of …

Irdina Adami Quoting from Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, during his plenary speech at the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo (Wednesday, May 10, 2023), which promotes other ASEAN countries to have a joint power grid (based on an article published by Channel News Asia). This statement …

Arshad Khan In our time now, the sheer complexity of the world political matrix, its fluidity of alliances and the absence of straightforward solutions, make the whole pregnant with amorphic ideas much too lacking in form to translate them into positive action. Within the US alone, there is …

Yen Mo On the right side of the Pacific, the U.S. media is eagerly asking as many scholars as possible whether the unipolar moment is over.  On the left side of the Pacific, East Asian think tanks focused on questioning the sustainability of the U.S.-initiated Indo-Pacific Economic Framework …

Situ Bihara G20 has become the epitome of economic governance since its inception. Its existence for 14 years at the summit level shows its practical purpose in the global arena. As a key grouping, G20 has treated Africa as a subject of development rather than as an active …

Measuring BRICS in single decades, in 2001, BRIC started as an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China; Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill claimed that by 2050 the four BRIC economies would come to dominate the global economy. So South Africa was added to BRIC in 2010. The …

Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh In 1976, I was by then a second-year student at the Faculty of Engineering (Ain Shams University) in Cairo. I attended a lecture by the late Muhammad Hassanein Heikal at the Socialist Union Building on the occasion of Earth Day. Attending that seminar were (Kamal …

Bashar al-Assad’s seemingly triumphant return to the Arab Leaguelast week was another sign of the region returning to the status quo ante. A dozen years ago, the world was seized with the idea that Middle Eastern politics and societies would soon be completely different. Now, Arab governments are …

From May 18 to 19, 2023, industry representatives, academics, and government representatives from the United States, Mexico, and Canada gathered in Washington, D.C., for the first North American Semiconductor Conference (NASC). The conference represented the fulfilment of one important pledge that came out of the annual North American …