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Democratic Values Are a Competitive Advantage
Politics

Democratic Values Are a Competitive Advantage

Upon winning the presidency,Joe Bidenpromised to lead “not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.” That pledge is important,…

Laura Rosenberger 26 December , 2020
Competition With China Could Be Short and Sharp
Business & Economy

Competition With China Could Be Short and Sharp

In foreign policy circles, it has become conventional wisdom thatthe United StatesandChinaare running a “superpower marathon” that may last a century…

Michael Beckley and Hal Brands 26 December , 2020
The Foreign Policy Challenges Awaiting President-Elect Biden
Politics

The Foreign Policy Challenges Awaiting President-Elect Biden

President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy “to do” list only looking more difficult as he approaches inauguration day – even as the US faces new,…

Al Majalla - London 26 December , 2020
Drones Are Destabilizing Global Politics
Politics

Drones Are Destabilizing Global Politics

The world has entered an era of drone wars. In four major interstate wars in the last five years—those inLibya, Nagorno-Karabakh,Syria, and Ukraine…

Jason Lyall 26 December , 2020
The Hindu Nationalist Myth of Love Jihad
Politics

The Hindu Nationalist Myth of Love Jihad

For more than a decade, right-wing Hindu groups inIndiahave conjured the specter of a “love jihad” among Muslim men: a campaign to court Hindu women…

Arundhati Katju 26 December , 2020
Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant on December 13, 2020 in Portage, Michigan
Science & Technology

Vaccine Nationalism Reigns Supreme

At this historic moment in time, the COVID-19 global pandemic has already caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and disrupted the lives…

Al Majalla - London 17 December , 2020
The U.S. removed the currency manipulator label it imposed on China last summer, a sign of easing tensions between the economic powers
Politics

The U.S. Can’t Check China Alone

In mid-November, the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff released a 74-page report arguing that China aims to fundamentally revise the world…

Odd Arne Westad 17 December , 2020
Instagram, Messenger and Facebook icons are seen displayed on a phone screen
Science & Technology

Big Tech Can Help Bring War Criminals to Justice

The video starts innocuously. A soldier in camouflage pants and a black shirt speaks to men who are mostly out of frame, punctuating his words with…

Alexa Koenig 17 December , 2020
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden walks  to announce U.S. Army General Lloyd Austin as his choice to be Secretary of the Department of Defense
Politics

How to Prepare for a National Security Crisis

No new administration wants unexpected foreign crises to distract it from addressing its domestic priorities. Given the pressing need to manage the…

Paul B. Stares 17 December , 2020
Syrian demonstrators look at a poster bearing the portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Politics

Iran Is in Syria to Stay

Early last week, Iraqi officials announced that an airstrike had killed a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as he entered Syria…

Ariane M. Tabatabai 17 December , 2020
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Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

02 May 2026

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

Xiaotong Yang
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

04 May 2026

Airspace closures, rising fuel costs, shifting flight maps and delayed aircraft deliveries have repriced flights around the world, with some travel routes hit worse than others

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A man holds a flag featuring the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran on 29 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Real Iran splits and the myth of division

04 May 2026

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka
A Lebanese guard stands in front of  Magen Abraham, the last Jewish synagogue in Lebanon at Wadi Abou Jmil, Beirut's former Jewish neighbourhood, in the war-devastated city centre. JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

New book recalls Beirut’s once-vibrant Jewish quarter

01 May 2026

Veteran Lebanese journalist Nada Abdelsamad transports readers back to the time when Beirut's Jewish quarter, known at the time as Wadi al-Yahud, was thriving

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
Politics

How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

05 May 2026

Ankara's national security priority is no longer Kurds or Gülenists, but Israel. Likewise, in Tel Aviv, Türkiye is increasingly seen as a future Israeli adversary. Both are preparing accordingly

Rustum Mahmud

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