Category: World
The Tale of Two Countries: Elite Stake and Development
Philippines was the most advanced Southeast Asian country with the highest per capita GDP until about the early 1960s. Its per capita GDP…
Obama has a lot to say about everything but his foreign policy
Opening his new Presidential Center in Chicago, Barack Obama once again gave eloquent expression to his faith in the fundamental American values of…
Happy birthday to the ever-expanding national security state
Seventy-nine years ago this month, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, which quickly morphed into today’s metastasizing, often abusive, national security…
Tucker Carlson’s left-right, third party dream
As the establishments of both major parties remain firmly wedded to Washington’s foreign policy consensus, particularly on U.S.-Israel relations, hard ideological factions on…
From the Nuclear Age to the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Can Humanity Build a New Architecture for Peace?
More than eight decades after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered humanity into the nuclear age, the world is confronting another…
UN Raises Alarm Over A Sharp Rise in Human Rights Abuses and Cholera-Related Deaths in Sudan
Throughout 2026, the humanitarian crisis in Sudan has deteriorated significantly, prompting the United Nations (UN) to raise alarm over the escalation of human…
Women Peacebuilders: The Missing Voices at the Negotiating Table
For most individuals, the process of peace starts with the signing of a ceasefire or an agreement among politicians. However, those who live…
Europe’s Funding Question Puts Tanzania’s Fragile Democracy on Trial
Every evening just before sunset, Salima Kitwana hobbles into her backyard holding a photograph. In the picture, her son Hemedi, wearing a green…
A new US-Iran war would end where the last one did
For all practical purposes, the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of (Mis)Understanding is over. The dispute over how to manage the Strait of Hormuz in the…
Does India’s Women’s Reservation Bill Shortchange Women Yet Again?
To say that the men scored over women yet again would be an understatement. To say that the women lost and men have…
