The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) was launched in 2015 as a massive infrastructure investment project involving 12 European countries from the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Sea regions. Austria, Bulgaria…
Shared transnational challenges are supposed to bring the world together. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has done the opposite, exposing the shortcomings of the structures that govern global health…
The year is 2030. Seismic monitors have just detected an unforeseen underground atomic explosion, signaling that yet another country has joined the growing club of nuclear-armed states. There are now…
The Iranian parliament is set to challenge Washington’s commitment to reviving the JCPOA by stepping even further out of compliance itself, presenting the new administration with an uncomfortable…
It has become a matter of general agreement among citizens of the richest country on earth that things are not going so well. The United States in its 245th year is an ailing nation—socially,…
It always seemed unlikely that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, would vote to convict the disgraced ex-president who, even from exile in Mar-a-Lago, holds sway over…
Raghad Saddam Hussein is the eldest daughter of Saddam Hussein, the late president of Iraq. She took the responsibility of helping her father during the trial after which he was eventually executed…
Drone warfare is one of the most important international security developments of the twenty-first century.The United Stateshas conducted thousands of drone strikes, ranging from attacks on nonstate…
The world is not getting safer, forthe United Statesor forU.S.interests. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the 2017 National Defense Strategy described an international environment of increased…
If there is broad bipartisan agreement on anything inWashingtontoday, it is thatthe United Stateshas become dangerously dependent on Chinese production. N-95 masks, essential drugs, components for…
Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards
American Rabbi Abraham Cooper has just met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, weeks after meeting Syria's foreign minister in New York. Al Majalla went to ask his thoughts.