Geopolitics

Understanding power distribution in purely “zero-sum-game” terms is not the best approach to a multipolar world. The idea of an emerging multipolar world order has become a buzzword in the post-pandemic global geopolitical discourse. Politicians, strategic experts, diplomats, and business leaders from diverse backgrounds solemnly intone that multipolarity …

To build a more strategically coherent approach to the Mediterranean region, the West must expand and deepen its relationship with African partners. In just under two months, the heads of state and government from the Group of Seven (G7) countries will convene on Italy’s southeastern coast near Fasano, …

Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh The recent political developments in Jordan have raised concerns about the state of consciousness and rationality among some individuals. French novelist Jean Cocteau once said, “The tragedy of our time is that foolishness thinks!” These words resonate strongly as we witness a series of …

The spread of protests against policies that have generated the current humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has been remarkable. Initiallycentered at Columbia University in New York, the protest movement quickly lit up other college campuses in the United States and has now inspired similar actions around the …

Are Israel’s ties with the United States starting to resemble the relationship between the old political and economic elites and the Jewish community in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Political philosopher Hannah Arendt pointed out in her classic study of European anti-Semitism that it was …

Dramatic campus protests are injecting an inflammatory new element into an election year that is already threatening to stretch national unity to a breaking point. Tensions spiked late Tuesday following an operation by New York Police Department surge teams to reclaim the Columbia University campus from pro-Palestinian demonstrators …

President Joe Biden won a decisive Electoral College victory in 2020 by restoring old Democratic advantages in the Rust Belt while establishing new beachheads in the Sun Belt. But this year, his position in polls has weakened on both fronts. The result is that, even this far from …

US President Biden was sharply critical Thursday of aspects of protests that have swept across college campuses nationwide in response to the war in Gaza, condemning vandalism and trespassing even as he defended the right to peacefully demonstrate. “In moments like this, there are always those who rush …

Democrats are increasingly anxious about their party’s internal divisions over the Israel-Hamas war, which are threatening to hurt their chances in November. The eruption of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses and the ensuing clashes with police portend bad times ahead. While the demands of student protesters vary somewhat from school to school, they are …