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Tue, October 4, 2022 | 15:02

Nuclear brinkmanship

North Korea's recent declaration that it would remain a nuclear state and that its decision was “irreversible” underscores the complete failure of U.S. policy toward Pyongyang over the last two decades.

2022-10-03 13:46

Dating in metaverse offers vast array of possibilities

Imagine a first date with someone who lives thousands of miles away that starts with a few drinks in a club set in a past decade, and ends with a dinner on the moon overlooking the Earth. These types of scenarios are all possible today thanks to the advancement of the metaverse.

2022-10-03 13:32

Global necessity of American democracy

In his prophetic 1838 Lyceum Address, a generation before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln predicted that the fall of the United States, if it were ever to occur, would not come from an outside threat, but rather as a result of internal division. “It cannot come from abroad,” he said, “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

2022-10-03 13:30

Everything everywhere all at once

It seems as if everything is going to hell all at once. You have the Russia-Ukraine war, with the always constant threat of a catastrophic nuclear exchange just below the horizon. You have Iranian women and young people violently pushing back against the suffocating rule of a fundamentalist theocracy. You have the Chinese being locked up in their own houses for months at a ti...

2022-10-02 15:06

Preparing for the long war

A nuclear specter is haunting Europe once again. On Sept. 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a mobilization of some 300,000 reservists and announced that he will use “all available means” to defend Russia, adding, “This is not a bluff.” As one senior European policymaker noted to me, such nuclear brinkmanship is an invitation to dust off old Cold War tomes such as H...

2022-10-02 13:53

Is Putin bluffing about nukes?

Vladimir Putin's desperation was plain to see in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilization of at least 300,000 more troops, the sudden decision to use fake referendums to turn all the occupied parts of Ukraine into Russian territory, and more explicit threats than usual about nuclear weapons. “This is not a bluff,” Putin warned.

2022-09-29 17:00

What's happening in the Western Balkans?

It has been more than seven months since the war in Ukraine broke out. Europe is suffering from the most tragic conflict since World War II. There has been no tangible progress on diplomacy, and no one knows when the war will end. As Russia countered the sanctions by cutting its supplies of oil and gas to European countries, people in Europe are worrying about stiff rises of ...

2022-09-29 14:30

Key to unlocking Africa's economic potential

Africa is on the cusp of an economic transformation. By 2050, consumer and business spending on the continent is expected to reach roughly $16.1 trillion. The coming boom offers tremendous opportunities for global businesses - especially U.S. companies looking for new markets. But unless African policymakers remove existing barriers to regional trade and investment, the conti...

2022-09-29 14:25

Public opinion surveys challenge the image Arab leaders like to project

Several recent public opinion surveys send a mixed message to autocratic reformers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, which hosts this year's World Cup in less than two months.

2022-09-29 14:19

For Russia, China is neither a 'big bad wolf' nor a 'fairy godmother'

This month, while the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit was being held, the Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper, published an op-ed describing Russia-China relations. The op-ed dismissed predictions of Russia being devoured by the “big bad wolf” and hopes of the country being rescued by the “fairy godmother” as both fairy tale fantasies.

2022-09-28 17:59

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