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Manshuk Kassymzhanova The Six-Party Talks (SPT) launched in 2003 with the first round held in Beijing. They continued through six rounds until 2007 but completely broke down in 2009 with Pyongyang’s statement about its unwillingness to participate in any further talks. Despite the fact that all six countries …

Alice Johnson The choice of military escalation in the conflict with Iran is an important juncture in modern geopolitics. However, while the conflict is justified in the context of demonstrating power and deterring future threats, early evidence suggests that the long-term implications may differ significantly from the initial …

Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh I. Introduction: War Beyond Reason In the evolving landscape of great power competition and regional conflict, few phenomena are as destabilizing as the gradual erosion of strategic rationality. What begins as a calculated intervention, framed within the lexicon of deterrence and preemption, can rapidly devolve …

By Lama Al-Rakad In today’s world, Western discourse often takes center stage as the global defender of human rights and minority protections. From the Middle East to other conflict zones, it speaks in the language of justice—championing “self-determination” and “the protection of minorities” as universal, non-negotiable principles. Yet …

Iran’s missile attacks have alienated the Hashemite Kingdom, but the chances of Jordan joining the war are still slim. Aaron Magid On Christmas Eve 2004, a suicide truck bomb headed to Jordan’s Embassy in Baghdad exploded, killing nine people. King Abdullah II later blamed a Shia group with …

Charbel Antoun The killings of Ali Khamenei and Ali Larijani have pushed the Islamic Republic into its most acute crisis since 1979. The assassination of Ali Larijani on March 17 has shattered what remained of Iran’s fragile leadership, accelerating its descent into a fractured autocracy—defiant in ideology but …

Alon ben Meir Three weeks into launching the war of choice with Iran, the Trump administration still has no plausible exit strategy. Four scenarios Several scenarios are being debated: First, a prolonged air and naval campaign ending in a unilateral U.S. declaration of “victory”. Second, a ceasefire mediated …

Jian Lu Bi The United States currently finds itself in a state of strategic paralysis, caught between an administrative push for military confrontation and a wall of resistance that spans from its own halls of power to the capitals of its oldest allies. These synchronized failures—one institutional, the …

Hani Abu Hassan For decades, globalization wore a Western face. It was shaped by the principles of free markets, privatization, and political conditionality—an architecture often associated with what became known as the “Washington Consensus.” But that era is no longer uncontested. Today, China is not merely participating in …