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Awakening a sleeping lion: The US-China Cold War is upon us

2019-01-13

Iraq working to make money, not burn it up in gas flares

2018-11-09
Instead of wasting the gas the country will reap the benefits of putting it to good use ...

Main Factors That Influence Global Oil Price

2018-08-11
It is important for any investor to think about putting their money into oil to consider how the price of ...
Economy

Risks to the Global Economy in 2019

2019-01-17
Over the course of this year and next, the biggest economic risks will emerge in those areas where investors think ...

Iran pushes Iraq to maintain trade without US dollar

2019-01-06
Iran is exerting considerable pressure on the Iraqi government to compel it not to abide by the US sanctions that ...

Russian romancing, Saudi intrigue precede OPEC meeting

2018-12-08
Politics

Iraq, Iran, the Gulf, Turkey, and the Future: The Meaningless Debate over the Trump Strategy in Syria

2019-01-15

Leaving Syria

2019-01-15
The main argument is that it is a mistake to think that ISIS has been defeated just because the last ...

Why Trump’s Advisors Keep Quashing His Realist Whims

2019-01-15
Over a period of mere days in late December the Trump administration made two troop withdrawal decisions that startled Washington ...
Articles

A Year to Act

2019-01-09
t has been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and despite significant progress toward improving life expectancy ...

AI for Human Development

2019-01-06
Technologies powered by artificial intelligence are being applied to some of the world’s most challenging human-development issues ...

The End of the Democratic Century

2018-12-29
Autocracys Global Ascendance ...
Human Rights

Quarter-Million Lives at Risk in Latest Battle for Yemen

2018-06-19
Now that the operation has begun, bipartisan congressional threats to sever U.S. military assistance because of humanitarian concerns will be ...

Politicizing Education: Israel and Myanmar set worrisome precedent

2018-06-04
Israel and Myanmar are the two countries with troubled human rights records and disputed histories of dealing with ethnic and ...

Saudi Arabia Hits the Brakes on Reforms

2018-05-28
Arresting feminists does not inspire faith in the crown princes much hyped reform agenda. ...
Culture

Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore

2018-06-01
Telephone culture is disappearing. ...

Why Orwell’s 1984 could be about Now

2018-05-21
Audiences around the world are re-reading George Orwells 1984, which is a handbook for difficult times ...

The Exceptionalism of American Higher Education

2018-05-21
American universities and colleges emerged as dominant players in the global ecology of higher education, a dominance that continues to ...
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