الحصار على قطر ساعدها على تعزيز اقتصادها، ممهّداً الطريق لتكامل إقليمي أقوى
في 5 يناير، أنهت المملكة العربية السعودية والبحرين والإمارات العربية المتّحدة ومصر حصارها الذي فرضته على قطر منذ ثلاث سنوات ونصف السنة. وأدّى...
One year into his reign, Oman’s sultan must renegotiate the social contract and prioritize...
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Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
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Lists of new appointees to the Biden administration have been coming thick and fast in recent days, and the first of these folks...
Ten years in, Tunisian democracy remains a work in progress
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UN engagement with nonstate armed groups for the sake of peace: Driving without a...
The United Nations was established to prevent wars between states. Today, conflicts usually erupt inside states, rather than between states, often exacerbated by...
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President Joe Biden has committed to restoring American leadership globally. With the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, this task became...
Key trends to watch in 2021
The January 6 Capitol protests that became an insurrection painfully highlighted how the white supremacist movement is intermingled with anti-government extremists, conspiracy theorists,...
The US-Mexico security relationship in 2021
The blows that in the last days of the Trump presidency Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador delivered to the U.S.-Mexico bilateral security...
Social media companies need better emergency protocols
Online vitriol, especially in the hands of widely-followed, influential, and well-resourced politicians and governments, can have serious — and even deadly — consequences....