There is something faintly theatrical about the Washington Post’s recent report claiming that a US diplomat in Dhaka openly told Bangladeshi journalists that Washington wants to cultivate relations with Jamaat-e-Islami read more
When US Ambassador to Bangladesh Brent Christensen publicly warned about the long-term risks of Chinese military and strategic entanglement, his remarks were not merely a routine diplomatic caution. They sounded read more
Europe likes to talk about “strategic autonomy.” It features prominently in speeches, summit communiqués, and glossy EU Commission pamphlets. Yet beneath the rhetoric lies an uncomfortable reality: the European Union read more
Japan’s long and controversial effort to revive its nuclear power sector suffered another setback this week after Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) shut down a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa read more
Sudan is standing at the edge of a humanitarian abyss. What is unfolding there is not merely another crisis competing for attention in a crowded global news cycle, but one read more
Nothing is more dangerous to a state than a temporary economic crisis-except the moment when the rule of law ceases to function as a binding authority and becomes a selective, read more
To speak seriously of Martin Luther King Jr. today is already to enter into conflict with the form in which he is publicly remembered. King survives as a moral icon read more
President Donald Trump’s latest bout of erratic behavior — culminating in a public campaign to acquire Greenland while linking that policy to not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize — is read more
The process of Moldova distancing itself from its traditional partners in the post-Soviet space is accelerating. The country seems determined to follow the same path as post-Maidan Ukraine, taking a read more
On January 20, the Russian military launched a massive combined arms strike on the Neo-Nazi junta, hitting hundreds of targets across NATO-occupied Ukraine. Figures vary depending on the source, but it would seem that read more