The US withdrawal from Afghanistan will likely clarify the Gulf’s security options. Are Russia and China alternatives?
Sudan: Justice for Darfur Genocide Finally in Sight?
Domestic peace at long last? Sudan’s fraught path to the ICC in The Hague.
Afghanistan: A Bellwether for Saudi-Iranian Rivalry?
Afghanistan could emerge as a venue for Middle Eastern rivalries.
South Sudan’s Fragile Peace
The peace accord to end the civil war in South Sudan remains fragile and needs international support.
Immunizing the World: Can We Do It?
Global governance on immunization against COVID 19 has failed quite badly so far. The West will experience a blowback.
Alexei Navalny: The Freest Man in the World
The recurring question of what freedom means in the political and the everyday world.
Why Was I Ever Born? Yemen — A Poem Article
While tens of thousands of Yemeni men, women and children are dying from starvation and disease, the world is shamelessly watching with deafening silence.
Goodbye, Right-Wing Populism
A Trump defeat signals the beginning of the end of nationalist populist politics worldwide.
Lebanon: The Return of Hariri — Tragedy, Farce or the Only Hope?
With Hariri’s return to power in Lebanon, the old guard’s political maneuvering intended to outflank the public has worked.
India: Gender Inequality Seriously Harms Women and Girls
The problem of abuse of women in India will only be solved by changing entrenched culture norms that allow the abuse and degradation of women.
























