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- Adm. Sir Tony Radakin is no average naval officer. Having studied law alongside his Royal Navy career, he qualified as a barrister and was subsequently called to the bar. Despite reaching the lofty rank of first sea lord, a title which predates that of prime minister by two centuries, this most...
- Seven years into the Syrian conflict, a messy proxy war involving global and regional powers, the opening of a new front this week was in some respects a most worrying development....
- The last time protesters amassed along Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia was in the throes of a revolution that unseated strongman Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and dismantled his fearsome police state. Last weekend, as people gathered in front of parliament, dissatisfaction with the ruling En...
- In the tumultuous decade following the so-called Arab Spring, one of the few glimmers of hope was Tunisia’s fledgling democracy, in which the aspirations of the many had supplanted the decrepit kleptocracy of the few. The developmental challenges that picked apart the “ancien regime” have, howe...
- In a series of curt letters sent to the leaders of Germany, Belgium, Norway and Canada last month, US President Donald Trump singled out NATO allies for spending too little on defense and failing to meet the alliance’s shared security obligations. The letters, on the back of a tense G-7 meeting...
- French President Emmanuel Macron talks to a resident as he visits a devastated street in Beirut, Lebanon, August 6, 2020. (Reuters) The explosion that tore apart the port of Beirut and its surrounding areas last month has not only left Lebanon’s capital crippled, but it has also ...
- Despite the customary anti-Western rhetoric and character of Iran’s foreign policy, the chief calculation of its government since 1979 has been the export of its revolution. Specifically, this has meant the exportation of Velayat-e faqih — or guardianship of the jurist — in an effort to extend ...
- The UK’s departure from the EU has created fear and anxiety over its economic impact. Responsible for 43 percent of UK exports and 53 percent of its imports, the bloc constitutes a key trading partner for the country. Their parting has, however, invigorated London’s efforts to strengthen ties w...
- UK Prime Minister and Conservative Party Leader Boris Johnson. (Reuters) Preoccupied with the current pandemic, policymakers and the media alike took little notice of this month’s decision by the Equality and Human Rights Commission not to conduct an inquiry into a...
- Author, spy, explorer, soldier, diplomat, governor, minister, and Conservative Party leadership candidate. Accumulating accolades seems to have been Rory Stewart’s preoccupation throughout his adult life. Of his many achievements, however, an eye on the top job was never one of them. Having sur...
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