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- With an economy the size of Italy’s and some very serious economic problems, Moscow’s hard power has seen better days. But repeated attacks by state-sponsored online combatants are having a more profound impact on the stability of Western democracies than any Cold War-era politburo did....
- Last week, NATO Secretary-General Jen Stoltenberg warned that the military alliance would respond to Russian violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Signed in 1987, the treaty aimed to eliminate all short- and intermediate-range US and Russian land-based ballistic miss...
- As international leaders gathered for the 56th Munich Security Conference last week, faced with the combined challenges of an Iran cut loose of its nuclear agreement, the outbreak of a frightening new virus and an EU at an impasse after the UK’s withdrawal, a sense of trepidation reflected t...
- As temperatures in southern Iraq soar above 50C and mothers cool down their children in buckets of dirty water, it is little wonder the population of Iraq’s Shiite heartlands are riotous. On July 8, Iran cut back energy supplies, triggering protests in Basra as residents struggled to keep thems...
- Amid fanciful economic statistics and short-term political wins, the failure of Arab countries to acquire and produce knowledge remains their most critical challenge. Stunted human development has massive adverse effects on the political and economic environment in the Arab world — a reality th...
- Four and a half years since the people of the UK voted to leave the EU, the Brexit process entered into its most dramatic phase last week as the French government decided to close its borders to the UK. Ostensibly isolating itself from a new strain of the coronavirus located in the southeast of...
- Since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016, the British government has been torn between whether a “soft” or “hard” Brexit should be pursued. In July, the Cabinet agreed to a plan known as the Chequers Deal, which would end the free movement of people but retain customs, trade and judicial comm...
- Coming to power following a series of surprise victories that left him with an overwhelming parliamentary majority, Emmanuel Macron was touted as France’s great hope, and he soon enacted long-delayed economic and social reforms to little opposition. In these pages in August 2017, this author...
- As if the current US administration had not done enough to harm the United States’ international reputation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley announced this week that the US will leave the UN Human Rights Council. The move was poorly timed, as observers l...
- The US has been a key player in the inception and containment of Iran’s nuclear development. In the 1950s, Iran’s nuclear program was launched with the help of the US as part of the Atoms for Peace program. This continued until Iran’s revolution of 1979. From then on, its nuclear development w...
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