Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and its suspected hacking of French President Emmanuel Macron’s campaign servers, should surprise no one, given President Vladimir Putin’s (mis)understanding of soft power. Before his re-election in 2012, Putin told a Moscow newspaper that “soft power is a complex of tools and methods to achieve foreign policy goals without the use of …
Read More »Terror in Tehran, On IS attacks in Iran
On June 7, 2017, IS that had nothing to do with Iranian regime for many years, suddenly appeared in Tehran and carried out armed attacks on Iran’s two most significant symbols of the 1979 Revolution – the Parliament and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran – though they are the most secure centres …
Read More »The Draft Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons & the Evolving International Nuclear Law
The international legal framework that deals with nuclear weapons may collectively be styled as the international nuclear law; and this framework obviously, like other areas of international law, is not static. One aspect that calls for a comment is that the international nuclear law falls in a shared domain of both the jus ad bellum (law of war) and the …
Read More »THE YEMEN CONFLICT
In March 2015, Yemen’s president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, was forced to flee the country by Zaidi Shia Houthi rebels. The Houthis had the support of some Ali Abdullah Saleh loyalists in the country’s military. To quell the rebels, and to restore Hadi government to power, Saudi Arabia forged a coalition of a dozen countries, including the Gulf Cooperation Council states …
Read More »THE LOOMING WORLD WAR 3, How to Save the World
The world is going through a turbulent period and the roiling cauldron of Middle East politics has been stirred by launching of a blockade against Qatar by ten countries led by Saudi Arabia. Besides, the longstanding Palestine issue, the unending Syrian civil war, the Daesh invasion in Iraq and the ongoing conflict in Yemen are also making the situation in …
Read More »Hindu Nationalism
The election victories of Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party (the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP) and its allies in India are in some respects the greatest moral and intellectual blow that Western liberalism has suffered in Eurasia since the end of the Cold War. That this fact has been so widely ignored by the Western media and commentariat is yet …
Read More »Robotics: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Facing the realities of the robotic age
Modern information technologies and the advent of machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) have already strongly influenced the world of work in the 21st century. They really seem to be reaching a point where we are really seeing an acceleration, what you might call an inflection point. Many seem to agree that robots will have a tremendous impact over the …
Read More »9 Tech Moguls, who made it big without a college degree
Having a college degree is almost universally accepted as one of the basic requirements for landing a good job and generally, being successful in life. But that’s not always the case, especially in the technology industry where there have been many visionaries who created something new and different that took the world by storm. Here are 9 such leaders of …
Read More »Letters to the Editor (July 2017)
For feedback and suggestions, please write to us at: editorjwtmag@gmail.com; editor@jworldtimes.com Politics of Sindh Sindh seems experiencing a political vacuum. Political leadership in Sindh, led by PPP, has miserably failed to deliver. Rampant corruption, stalled agricultural progress and declined delivery of modern education vividly reflect political failure of Zardari’s government in the province. KP and Punjab are the centres of …
Read More »Whither the Muslim World? (Editorial July 2017)
The Riyadh Summit, or the US-Arab-Islamic Summit, and the ensuing events once again have highlighted the widening chasms in the Muslim world. It further reinforces the impression that Muslims are still very far from achieving the dream of the unity of Ummah. Although the summit was organised with the ostensible purpose of combating terrorism, the statements made by President Trump …
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