Middle East & Africa
The End of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Struggle: A Victory for Erdoğan’s Neo-Ottomanism?
This article will discuss the political context and strategic implications of the dissolution of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK) as a development that reconstructs...
What the UN Resolution 2797 Means for Western Sahara
In October 2025, a group of powerful states attempted to do in a few days what fifty years of occupation, war and repression had...
How Global Student Protests Reshaped Palestinian Politics
One country in the world, Palestine, is currently experiencing injustice in terms of human rights by Israel. In the past year, the global community...
Trouble in Idyllic Mauritius: Look Up and See
The present political crisis going on in Mauritius reminds me of a peculiar universal trait among politicians and their parties all over the world....
Interview: Professor Sergiu Mișcoiu on Nigeria’s Destabilization and Its Regional Impact
Nigeria, with an estimated population of 220 million and largely considered the West African economic giant, was designated as a "Country of Particular Concern"...
MbS Returns: The Saudi Prince Seeks to Reclaim his Global Role
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) visited the White House for the first time since Jamal Khashoggi's murder, seeking to reaffirm his position on...
Sudan: Saudi-Burhan connections cast a shadow over US working visit
This coming Tuesday will see an official Saudi working visit to Washington, D.C., at a sensitive moment for US-Saudi relations. Amidst the usual human...
Sudan: The SAF’s tap-dance over talks continues
Will they or won’t they? The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are tap-dancing their way around the latest negotiations for a ceasefire, always imposing new...
Shifting Ground: U.S.-Africa Policy from Obama to Trump
In this exclusive interview, Professor David Shinn, a former top U.S. diplomat and now an adjunct professor of international affairs at George Washington University's...
Examining the Sudanese Conflict, Transnational Networks, and Shadow Globalization
When we talk about conflict in a country, we usually think of war, crisis, violence, and so on. Of course, these conflicts are crucial...