Mike Pompeo is Happy with India, but will that end the Chinese Standoff?
With the recent visit of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to New Delhi, the already uncomfortable India-China relations have taken on a new...
Measuring the stretch of the Indo-Pacific so far
The term ‘Indo-Pacific’ is much more than just the Quad. There are multiple centres of power that encompass the region today. Here, I analyse...
Ten Things to Ponder in The Trump-Biden Race and What About Africa?
One of my primary and secondary school classmates now a facebook friend ,said I was bold to say anything about the U.S.Presidential race at...
Conflict in Ethiopia extends the Greater Middle East’s arc of crisis
Authors: James M. Dorsey and Alessandro Arduino*
Ethiopia, an African darling of the international community, is sliding towards civil war as the coronavirus pandemic hardens...
Darfur’s troubled waters hold key to peace
Each year, 06 November marks the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Here we report on how...
Liberal Democracy and Trumpism
Votes counting is in process and election contest has turned into nail biter as I write these lines. There is very close contest going...
Israel and its Arab citizens
A topic rarely dealt with in the press is the situation between Jewish and Arab (Christian and Muslim) Israeli citizens. On April 26, 2020,...
Chile’s plebiscite: Optimism, yet there remains a long road ahead to achieve social reform
In a groundbreaking plebiscite held on 25 October, Chileans went to the polls to vote whether to uphold or replace the Pinochet-era constitution. An...
How much more patience….for Erdogan?
On the evening of November 2, on a day dedicated to the commemoration of the dead all over the world, the centre of Vienna...
Strategy, Plague and War: Israel’s Complex Nuclear Future
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."-T S Eliot, The Waste Land
Despite the noise and aggressive self-promotion, Trump administration diplomacy in...