Analysis
Russia’s War Has Unified Europe’s Opposing Sides
On one of the last days of June 1914, a telegram arrived in a remote garrison town on the border of the Habsburg Empire. The telegram…
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Looking Beyond the Pandemic: The Critical Challenges We Still Need to Tackle
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organisation officially designated the novel coronavirus as a pandemic. Two days later, then-US President Donald Trump declared a national…
Analysis
Tehreek-i-Taliban is Making Its Way Back in Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Taliban’s resurgence reveals the failure of the Pakistan government’s anti-terror policy and its ambivalent, contradictory relationship with Islamist militant groups According to the January 2023 report…
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Why is US ambassador Haas so active?
DIPLOMATIC ties between Bangladesh and the United States have undergone a dramatic transformation over the past few years. There have been high-level diplomatic sanctions, a flurry…
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Pakistan in the Indo-Pacific Framework?
Despite its strategic location as a primary littoral state in the Indian Ocean Region, Pakistan has largely eluded discussions on the Indo-Pacific. While the Biden administration’s…
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The Democratic Insider Who Fought the Trump Administration
Douglas Letter was the House chief counsel for four years, leading the Democrats’ legal efforts to fight the Trump administration on the census, tax records and…
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We Didn’t Vote for This Zombie Brexit
Rishi Sunak's Windsor Framework betrays the democratic revolt of 2016. Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak boasts that the Windsor Framework deal with the EU means his…
Analysis
Sri Lanka’s Great IMF Lie
Decades of looking to the IMF for salvation has yielded only crises. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis demands urgent relief measures for a desperate citizenry and a…
Analysis
Sanctions Rarely Work, but are They Still The Least Worst Option?
How do we encourage states – or more specifically the people who run them – to behave well, or at least not badly? The “we” in…
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Trouble With Carbon Markets
Even markets with contested reputations, such as those for finance and pharmaceuticals, have rules that go beyond certifying the quality of the products traded. As recent…
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Forget Yellow Journalism, India Is Now Fertile Ground for Saffron Journalism
Media, which should act as a bridge between the authorities and the rest of the population, is decaying in the world's largest democracy. Since India attained…
Analysis
The War Will Grind on: Reflecting on A Year of War in Ukraine
“So it begins!” This was the message shared among my team at the Royal United Services Institute on Feb. 22, 2022 as Russian President Vladimir Putin…