Invisible Costs: How Big Data Growth Threatens Environmental Justice
“If we are unaware of our place in this world, what kind of society would we establish?” This was one of the questions posed by John Rawls in formulating his…
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Nuclear Triad Development Races Between China, India, and Pakistan
“We are sailing into uncharted waters, and everything we think we know about nuclear weapons, particularly regarding deterrence and coercion, rests on rules that are based on a very short…
The African Sahel: A Focus of Global Terrorism – Causes, Implications, and Beneficiaries
The Global Terrorism Index, released by the Institute for Economics and Peace based in Sydney, Australia, in March 2025, which covered the terrorist situation globally during 2024, highlights the increasing…
Risks that the trade war between Washington and Beijing could evolve into a second Cold War
Since the start of Donald Trump’s second term in January 2025, relations between the United States and China have entered a new phase characterized by a sharp escalation in confrontation…
From Mosul to Puntland: The War on the Islamic State – Agendas, Dimensions, and Scenarios
The attack by the Islamic State (ISIS) on a military base of local forces in Puntland state on December 31 last year raised local and regional concerns about the group’s…
Security Breach: What are the Implications of the New Leak Involving the U.S. Secretary of Defense?
On April 24, 2025, the Washington Post reported, citing three informed sources, that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had installed the encrypted messaging app “Signal” on his personal device…
Why the Ukrainian Crisis is the West’s Fault
In an article published in 2014 in Foreign Affairs by John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, titled “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s…
Escalating Ethiopian-Eritrean Tension: Motivations, Manifestations, and War Possibilities
As much as the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region represented the peak of Eritrean-Ethiopian coordination and rapprochement, the understandings that concluded the war marked the beginning of a new chapter…
Why Did Russia Remove the Taliban from the List of Terrorist Organizations?
Recently, the relationship between Russia and the Taliban has transformed, as Moscow sees potential for establishing more open relations that benefit both parties, despite the hostile stance that prevailed since…
Four Major Issues Explain the Current Turmoil in the Global Economy
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic.” With these words, Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, summarizes the…
American Alliances (I2U2 – Quad – AUKUS): Are They Tools to Counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative?!
Western control over the international system has opened the door to an increasingly prominent role for what is called Geo-Economics. Geo-economic thinking precedes or merges with geopolitical (Geo-Politics) thinking in…
Transformations of Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East
Non-state armed actors are an integral part of interactions in the Middle East, having emerged as a result of accumulating and worsening internal conflicts and foreign interventions, which have led…