Politicizing Education: Israel and Myanmar set worrisome precedent
Israel and Myanmar, two countries with troubled human rights records and disputed histories of dealing with ethnic and national rights, have set a worrisome...
USCIRF: Turkey Among the Most Egregious Violators of Religious Freedom Throughout the World
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recently released its 2018 Annual Report, which documents violations of religious freedom around the world,...
The Post-War Order is Over -And not because Trump wrecked it
The 75-year-old post-war order crafted by the United States after World War II is falling apart. Almost every major foreign-policy initiative of the last...
Sino-US relations, Trade, and Values
A long time ago, Grecian Aesop told such a story, saying, “One winter, a farmer found a snake being frozen to half death. Out...
Mahathir’s reforms could put Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the spot
Newly elected Malaysian Prime Minister Mohammed Mahathir is adopting policies that could reshape the Southeast nation’s relations with powerful Gulf states.
A series of anti-corruption...
Aligarh University Violence: Is India a Secular or Hindu Chauvinist Country?
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is an Indian public central university. It was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in...
Nuclear Weapons: Pakistan’s National Security Assets
In the 1970s, the then prime minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, famously declared that, “We will eat grass, even go hungry, but we...
How much solidarity with Iran can the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization afford?
A planned China and Russia-led show of support for Iran at next month’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit is likely to be primarily symbolic...
Israeli Atrocities against Palestinians and International Response
The world’s media is castigating Israeli soldiers who killed unarmed Palestinians on April 20, 2018 in the wake of Great March of Return in...
Bangladesh’s Space Age: A Strategic Turnover?
Bangladesh’s space age has begun with the successful launch of Bangabandhu-1 satellite by SpaceX into orbit on 11 May, providing Bangladesh the status of...