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Is the US-Iran War Entering the Deadliest Phase?
Authors: Sanjay Turi and Praveen Sothwal*
Amid rising geopolitical uncertainty over a US-Iran war, the Trump-led US is reportedly seen to be deploying tens of...
Why the U.S. is Not a Declining Power: From Middle East Instability to Indo-Pacific Primacy
Every few years, the same obituary is written again. America is finished, we are told. It has lost its nerve, exhausted itself in the...
Xi Jinping’s Four Peace Initiatives after the Iran War
As part of promoting the Chinese Global Security Initiative (GSI) as an alternative to the Western approach, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed a four-point...
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Puts Trump’s Security Back in the Spotlight
The shooting of a Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night has raised concerns about the safety of...
Western Sahara: Three Wrong Turns the World Must Not Take
At the end of April the United Nations Security Council returns to a file it has been unable to close for more than three...
How the UAE Engineers Global Influence through Public Diplomacy
The 21st century has redefined the nature of power. Public diplomacy and soft power have emerged as the defining and decisive currency of influence...
A defining week in Africa: between moral voice, political tensions, and economic reality
Africa has shown itself in the past week again as a continent of dramatic contrasts, in which moral leadership, political turmoil, and financial aspiration...
What Is Better for the State of Israel: Miserable Palestinians or Dignified Citizens?
A conflict that has lasted nearly eight decades may require an approach different from the recurring cycles of war that all parties have pursued....
Ukraine gets EU cash boost — yet far more help needed to sustain war effort
The European Union has approved a 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine, providing essential funds that help avoid drastic cuts to public services. However, Ukraine may...
The Hormuz Dividend and Malaysia’s Middle Power Gambit in a Fragmenting Order
With the Strait of Hormuz, which is one of the most important energy chokepoints in the world, disrupted by conflict, global shipping has been...