Pakistan’s Vision 2035, which aims to build a $1 trillion economy, is closely tied to its deepening friendship with China. Since the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a decade ago, ...
Iraqi Kurdistan is militarily safer than Russia or the US. That is what I told my security studies teacher eight years ago when I was a freshman in college. My argument was simple: We don’t have ...
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed that history unfolded in stages. Celebrity history seems to obey a similar pattern. The first stage is thrilling: novelty, scandal and ...
With approximately 11.6 million 60-kg bags forecast and exports nearing 288.2 billion Birr ($200.8 billion), Ethiopia must either transform its irreplaceable Arabica gene pool into a high-value ...
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed sounded an alarm bell eight years ago that rings loudly today. Fuelling a global groundswell of anti-Muslim and antimigrant sentiment, Mr ...
When the conflict erupted between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian federal government in November 2020, civilians in the neighboring Amhara region faced severe atrocities, ...
When we learned of “the end of history,” a little over three decades ago, our geopolitical meteorologists forecasted sunny skies for the neoliberal reality that was coursing across the globe.
For centuries, the Middle East has stood at the crossroads of civilization and conflict. Despite the formal establishment of modern nation-states, the region has failed to achieve internal political ...
In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate AI chatbots to better understand the productive and deceptive ways in which they “reason.” Together with ChatGPT, we have been analyzing the quality of OpenAI CEO ...
According to the UNICEF 2022 data, nearly three-quarters of young people aged 15 to 24 in 92 countries are off-track to acquire the skills needed for employment. These staggering numbers reflect a ...
Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited Malaysia in May 2025 to attend the ASEAN-GCC-China Summit, aiming to deepen Beijing’s influence in Southeast Asia and the Gulf through trade diplomacy. His attempts to ...
US President Donald Trump unveiled a sweeping trade deal with the EU that imposes steep tariffs on EU exports while claiming historic concessions in energy and defense. Despite the rhetoric, American ...