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Dr. Shehab Al Makahleh The Parliament of Turkey approved on March 30, 2023 Finland’s accession to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in a unanimous vote. In a quick turnaround in less than a week, NATO deal was struck and on April 4th, 2023 Finland became a full-fledged NATO …

The Biden administration called off Blinken’s planned trip to Beijing in February after a Chinese spy balloon traversed U.S. skies, but has since been trying to restart high-level talks, POLITICO writes. That includes rescheduling the Blinken visit, and setting up other trips by top U.S. officials and a …

Power struggle is not an unfamiliar concept in the international political world order. The history has witnessed, how the actors have changed yet the struggle for power continues, heedless of time and space. In every era, political entities have always endeavored to gain maximum power to get other …

By Shehab Al Makahleh Over 30 heads of state, senior politicians, military officers, diplomats and 110 ministers and business representatives conferred have taken part in the 59th Munich Security Conference, to discuss security challenges the world is undergoing. The current conference comes a week before the first anniversary …

The Marine Corps and Navy remain at odds over the number of Light Amphibious Warships the Corps should acquire. The U.S. Marine Corps will rely on the Light Amphibious Warship to shuttle Marines and supplies throughout the Pacific in support of Marine operations in the world’s largest ocean. …

By Amy Sherif The US Navy (USN) is adopting a new path, solidifying a strategic move towards Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) to conduct enduring sea control and power projection missions.  The Navy is shifting into the building and maturing its Overmatch program and providing Joint All-Domain Command and …

Yaroslav Lissovolik As new trade barriers and restrictions are emanating from the advanced economies there is a stronger case for the affected emerging economies to compensate these adverse effects via greater openness of markets across the Global South. Developing countries have in fact proceeded to liberalize their markets …

Hanna Eid What we are seeing is the USA-NATO nexus reacting to the new reality of multipolarity in the world system by desperately attempting to control the flow of information. The instantaneity with which the entire western political spectrum was whipped into line during the ongoing conflict between …

Michael Hudson  The MIC, OGAM and FIRE Sectors Conquer NATO My old boss Herman Kahn, with whom I worked at the Hudson Institute in the 1970s, had a set speech that he would give at public meetings. He said that back in high school in Los Angeles, his …