Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe’s Lithium Export Ban: China’s Battery Supply Chain in an Era of Resource Nationalism
Zimbabwe’s lithium export ban in late February changed how resource-rich countries are approaching the global supply chains. By tightening its control over its resources,...
Active Suasion to Kinetic Action; US’s Iran Odyssey
Kinetic action starts the moment persuasion fails, and the US-Iran adventure is one classic example of that. The US had it all planned out;...
Missiles Over Diplomacy as Iran Defies Trump and Escalates War
Tensions between Iran and Israel surged sharply after Tehran launched waves of missiles targeting Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv. The strikes came just a...
How a U.S.-Israeli Conflict With Iran Reshapes Security and Economies Worldwide
In this interview, Professor Sergiu Mișcoiu at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), where he also serves as a director...
America’s Gulf Bases Are No Longer Shields: The Limits of U.S. Military Power
Authors: Muhammad Rauhan Rasheed and Asif Al Hasan*
In an interesting development, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, refused to be a part of the...
Behind China’s Abstention: The Calculus of Not Condemning Iran’s Gulf Strikes
China abstained from voting on UN Security Council Resolution 2817 in March 2026, which condemned Iranian attacks on Gulf states and Jordan by a...
‘Africa Forward’ Summit: France Strengthening Africa’s Development Agenda
The United States-Israeli war in the Islamic Republic of Iran shattered Africa's economic landscape and left an emotional devastation. Europe is fractured, but completely....
Integration of Islamist Forces by Sudan’s Yasser al-Atta Set to Deepen, Not Ease, International Alarm
Lieutenant General Yasser al-Atta, member of the Sovereign Council and Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), stated on Saturday that arrangements are...
Post-Saddam Iraq at 23: The War It Never Wanted Is Back
On the anniversary of the 2003 invasion, Iraq finds itself trapped between the same external powers that have defined — and destroyed — its...
Between the IMF’s Hammer and the EU’s Green Wall: The Neocolonial Scandal Behind Africa’s Poverty
Since the debt crisis hit developing countries in the 1980s, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have introduced structural adjustment programs in...