In the coming decades, the developed world will face a daunting demographic challenge. As life expectancy goes up and fertility rates go down inNorth America,Europe, and the Pacific nations…

Late last week, the Taliban and the US signed a historic peace deal. This seemed like a landmark moment in the US’s almost two-decade presence in Afghanistan as for the first time a glimmer of hope…

On March 2, 2020 Israel held its third election in almost 12 months, as a political deadlock that prevented both Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Alliance from forming a…

As the tense calm that prevailed between Turkish and Syrian military forces has given way to open combat and increasingly lethal Turkish strikes, a new consensus has begun to form among key figures…

Early Life and Education Elyes Fakhfakh was born in the Tunisian capital of Tunis in 1972. He would then attend the National Engineering School of Sfax where he earned…

What makes an army successful in battle? A few factors come to mind: strength in numbers, tactical acumen, the type of political institutions at home. New technologies, including artificial…

InDecember 2019, as protests against a controversial new citizenship law sweptIndia, three incidents in different parts of the country revealed the state’s growing powers of surveillance. InDelhi,…

In a televised speech on Sunday commemorating the death of Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, Hezbollah’s chief subtly announced a campaign to boycott American products. “Why are we not resorting…

Early Life and Education Mohamed Tawfiq Allawi was born on June 1, 1954, in Baghdad. He would spend his formative years in Iraq’s capital city where…

The UK Government has announced its post-Brexit “points-based immigration system”. The new system will keep the UK open to highly skilled workers from anywhere in the world, but will close the door…