Going forward, the international community needs to reduce dependence on the US without upsetting the world's largest military and economic power. It will be a shaky tightrope to walk.
Tariffs and countermeasures are fracturing the system of globalisation on which the post-Cold War world was built. Prosperity and interconnectedness may break with it. The world stands on the brink.
Globalization is an extremely ambiguous term that has been redefined and re-constructed. The champions of globalization define it as the phenomena of increasing integration and interaction among…
As seen with Russia, the exclusion from the world monetary system seems to be a favorite choice of western countries to combat hostile powers. In the past months, US, UK and EU announced the removal…
Last year, as the first COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out, I predicted in Foreign Affairs that the global economy would come roaring back and eventually usher in a new golden age of globalization…
The most striking geopolitical feature of the past four years has not been bipolarity or multipolarity—or even great-power conflict. It has been the spectacle of major economies pursuing self…
Cheap unmanned aerial vehicles cost only a few thousand dollars to make, but are costing millions to defend against, turning the economics of war on its head
Britons seem fed up with establishment parties after Labour's disastrous performance in this week's local elections, and the Tories' similar failure two years ago
Nestled on the southern Mediterranean coast, Egypt's quaint coastal metropolis marked its inception as an ancient city that wore many hats across civilisations