Politics

Pakistan recently celebrated its 78th Independence Day, marking nearly eight decades since its inception. This period is comparable to the lifespan of an average human being—enough time to experience birth, growth, maturity, and decline. Similarly, Pakistan’s history has been a…

A recent article published in The Hill celebrated the revival of the Monroe Doctrine under Donald Trump by suggesting that U.S. pressure is displacing China from Latin America. But this view misreads both the nature of U.S. influence and the political and…

The common denominator is India’s rivalry with China. Trump recently made a show of doubling his 25% tariffs on India as punishment for its continued purchase of Russian energy and military-technical equipment. Influenced by Lindsey Graham, he expected that India…

First it was nitrate, then lithium. Today, green hydrogen. And history threatens to repeat itself. The history we did not learn Chile lost its nitrate and did not even grieve. It was taken away in the name of progress, exploited…

Shashi Tharoor tells Trump that colonialism is over and that he is a hypocrite. I recently gave some comments to India’s NDTV about the decline of the US in the global society. It was on its Friday evening “India Ascends”…

Rebranding existing logistics corridors across its territory as part of CPEC is a means to this end. Iran’s Mehr News Agency and others reported that one of their country’s leading economic officials discussed the possibility of it facilitating Pakistan’s trade with Russia and Europe…

In recent weeks, a motley crew of writers has found common cause in attacking Nicaragua’s Sandinista government: Jaden Hong, a high-school student from Sammamish, Washington, who has never visited the country; Jared O. Bell, a former USAID Foreign Service Officer;…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine. The rise of Russian-style hybrid warfare. General receptivity to the idea of nonviolent civilian-based defense (CBD) in Latvia, one of the two Baltic states that share a border with Russia, has never been lower. It…

 In the contemporary era, the rapid transformation of the state into a corporatized entity has fundamentally altered the relationship between governments and citizens. The traditional notion of citizenship, rooted in rights, responsibilities, and collective welfare, is being replaced by a…

On the morning of August 10, International Children’s Day, the collective Coordinadora por Palestina (Coordination for Palestine) staged a powerful installation in front of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile: a bombed-out classroom with a blackboard in…