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In Sudan, a Transition to Democracy? Foreign Policy

April 14, 2019
After four months of nationwide protests, the Sudanese military ousted President Omar al-Bashir, ending three decades of dictatorial rule. The dethronement of al-Bashir, under house arrest due to his 2009 indictment by the International Criminal Court for the Darfur genocide, leaves a power vacuum...

Jumping on the US Bandwagon for a “War on Terror”

June 21, 2007
Since the 9/11 attacks, a US priority has been to eliminate global terror. The US has spent and accrued billions in debt, invading Afghanistan and Iraq and enhancing security procedures in travel and everyday routine. A study of newspaper coverage of Pakistan, following the 9/11 attacks, suggests...

Gulf Security in a Globalizing World: Going beyond US Hegemony

June 29, 2004
War and domestic political uncertainty have reigned in the Middle East during the past three decades. But one strategic reality has steadfastly evolved: the rise of the United States as an external guarantor of Gulf security. The continued presence of 138,000 US troops in Iraq after the formal...

Global Health Funding Faces a Shortfall of Billions to Fight Diseases

November 1, 2016
The global health community has tools to prevent and treat diseases, however, a “decline in global health funding threatens not just to stymie scientific advances against diseases like HIV, but to actually reverse gains made in the past decade,” writes Andrew Green for World Politics Review....

ANI: Singapore Passport Is World’s "Most Powerful"

October 25, 2017
Traveling without delays or complications has value, and Arton Capitol has assigned Singapore’s passport its top ranking for visa-free travel to 173 nations. “This is the first time an Asian country has been announced as having the most powerful passport, according to the Passport Index,” reports...

Worldwide Surging Food Prices: Bloomberg

April 10, 2020
The prices of wheat and rice have been surging in the spot and future markets. Countries that rely on imports must bear additional financial burden besides confronting COVID-19. The reasons for the price increases remain unclear, with analysis of the future markets’ influence, local supplies and...

Middle East: Marching Backward to the Future

August 22, 2006
The fighting in Lebanon marks a return to an old worldview, a view once espoused by pan-Arab nationalists and now taken up by radical Islamists. The prevailing belief of extremist leaders is that the West is weak and can be defeated by Muslims willing to martyr themselves and engage in large-scale...

为巴基斯坦而战

June 2, 2011
巴基斯坦这边打击基地组织，那边又支持伊斯兰激进分子对抗印度，政策自相矛盾，结果恰恰反受其害。前美国情报官员、现布鲁金斯学会萨班中东政策研究中心资深研究员布鲁斯•里德尔（Bruce Riedel），质疑巴基斯坦是一个“失败国家”这一观点。这个国家现在被极端激进分子操纵，而这些激进分子，是巴基斯坦军方的一些部门，为了向宿敌印度发动袭击而培育出来的。自从奥萨马•本•拉登死后，巴基斯坦军方避开了美国的言辞攻击和基地组织的致命袭击。由于伊斯兰圣战分子野心勃勃，妄图夺取巴基斯坦并接管其核武器，如今，这些极端组织掉转枪头对准他们的国家。里德尔得出结论认为，通过谈判迅速结束印度—巴基斯坦之间的冲突，...
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