Int’l Affairs

Clash of Civilizations or A Fatal Trap for Europe? It is sad to see how a continent that was one cradle of civilisation is running blindly into a trap, the trap of a holy war with Islam — and that six terrorists were sufficient to bring that about. It is time to get out of the comprehensible “We are All …

“It’s official: The US is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.” That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York Times, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels.” The article reports on a CIA review of recent US covert operations to determine their …

The key political issue of our age Does this sometimes feel like a country under enemy occupation? Do you wonder why the demands of so much of the electorate seldom translate into policy? Why parties of the left seem incapable of offering effective opposition to market fundamentalism, let alone proposing coherent alternatives? Do you wonder why those who want a …

Will Iran And The West Reach An Agreement In 2015? The failure of the “P5+1” (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and Iran to meet the November 24, 2014 deadline for reaching a final nuclear agreement was indeed a setback. However, the decision to extend the deadline to July 2015 was a victory for diplomacy. …

In November 2013, the World Economic Forum released its ‘Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014’, in which it ranked widening income disparities as the second greatest worldwide risk in the coming 12 to 18 months.

This year marks the centenary of the First World War in Europe and has prompted comparisons with rising tensions between China and Japan, and the United States and China.

Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none is more dangerous than the president’s persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat.

Two years after the United States announced its rebalancing towards the Pacific, China seems to have delineated a two-pronged strategy in response that became more apparent recently.

Ukraine has recently experienced the most dramatic days in European history since the fall of the communist regimes. After unprecedented violence in the streets of Kiev, the situation is still uncertain. President Viktor Yanukovich has left behind him a power vacuum that will potentially reshape the balance of power in the region between Russia and the European Union.

The United States polls higher than Pakistan, Iran and China as a perceived menace to peace. As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?”