108 Years of Balfour and the Unfinished Question of Palestine
This November marks 108 years since the Balfour Declaration, a promise written in London by men who had never walked the soil of Palestine....
From Anarchy to Etiquette: The UN, IR Theories, and the Politics of Trump’s Ceasefire
When Donald Trump announced a new “ceasefire deal” between Israel, Qatar, Turkey, and the United States, the world reacted with a mixture of fatigue...
The Ghost of ‘We the Peoples’: Trump’s UN Speech and a Strained World Order
“We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…”
Those opening words of the UN Charter were...
The Collapse of Restraint: Iran, Israel, and the Fragility of Global Order
The latest Israeli airstrikes on Iran, including reported strikes on the Natanz nuclear facility and the assassination of senior IRGC commanders, have pushed the...
When the Academy Falls: Collapse, and the Marketised Death of Education
“Uncertainty exists towards Coventry University’s ability to continue.” That single sentence — buried in a recent BBC report — should not just make us...
“The Strong Do What They Can”: Trump, Greenland, and the Modern Melian Dialogue
In Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War, the Melian Dialogue records a chilling encounter between imperial but democratic Athens and the neutral island...
The Fall of Bashar al-Assad: Examining the Reasons and What Happens Next
Bashar al-Assad didn’t lose power in a dramatic instant. No single battle tipped the scales. No shocking betrayal sealed his fate. No decisive political...
Lebanon: The Long Road from Sectarianism to the Illusion of a Stable State
Lebanon’s past reflects a delicate sectarian equilibrium, formally embedded in the 1943 National Pact, an unwritten understanding aimed at dividing authority among the country’s...
Israel – Iran Conflict: The Imperative for Global Cooperation to Prevent Regional Escalation
For decades, Iran and Israel have been entangled in what is often described as a "shadow war," involving proxies, cyberattacks, economic sanctions, and aggressive...
Four years on, the Rohingya crisis turns into a protracted refugee situation slowly but surely
This month marks the fourth anniversary of Myanmar’s brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing that forcibly displaced around a million Rohingya Muslims into Bangladeshi refugee...