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A counterweight to American hegemony emerges in Tianjin

Fares Garabet 01 September 2025
Israeli soldiers with their Merkava tanks near Gaza. A range of regional powers all willing and able to intervene increases the risk of conflict in the Middle East. Getty Images

Is a shifting balance of power causing Middle Eastern conflict?

Far from the solidity of a unipolar or bipolar world, the region is awash with medium and large powers all vying for their interests, with several unstable states in which to do so. Is there hope?

Christopher Phillips 03 April 2024
Will an expanded BRICS challenge the US-led Western order? The answer: unlikely in the foreseeable future. Ewan White

Despite expansion, BRICS still no match for the West

Will an expanded BRICS challenge the US-led Western order? The answer: unlikely in the foreseeable future.

Robert Ford 09 October 2023
The US Dollar depicted as the dominate world reserve currency. (Getty)

Does It Matter If Dollar Dominance Ends?

What price will the United States pay for the end of dollar hegemony, if indeed dollar hegemony ends? Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize laureate, suggests that concern over the…

Robert Farley 25 June 2021
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Why siccing Syria's army on Hezbollah is so dangerous

28 June 2026

If Trump's idea is implemented, it would all but certainly further undermine regional stability and US interests in the Middle East

David Schenker
Neil Webb
Science & Technology

The G7 grapples with the politics of AI access

23 June 2026

As advanced AI models become strategic assets, the G7 is confronting difficult questions of access, dependence, and control

Marco Mossad
Massad Boulos, Trump's Middle East advisor, speaks at the Libya Energy and Economic Summit at the Tripoli International Conference Centre in Tripoli on 24 January, 2026. MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP
Politics

US plan for Libya: unification or management of division?

26 June 2026

A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?

Areig Elhag
Grace Russell
Business & Economy

The World Cup is helping boost the Arab hospitality sector

26 June 2026

Owing to time-zone differences, the tournament is creating a new spending cycle for cafés and restaurants in Arab cities

Mohamed Sharki
Culture & Social Affairs

Umberto Eco's 'Inventing the Enemy' as relevant as ever

22 June 2026

A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today

Antoine Jockey

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