Asia’s Defense Spending Soars Amid Economic Slowdown
Japan plans to double military spending by raising defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2027, and Taiwan has proposed its largest-ever defense budget for 2024.
Japan plans to double military spending by raising defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2027, and Taiwan has proposed its largest-ever defense budget for 2024.
Eighteen years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Shiites are divided on the relationship between political power, ethnicity, and…
A major theme running through Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is how and why a small group of international jet-setters can use…
The resulting victory of the Taliban will extend well beyond the borders of Afghanistan.
The Middle East has proven this several times: yesterday’s enemy could be tomorrow’s ally.
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The deepening of bilateral ties will provide many strategic benefits to both Turkey and Sudan. Right now, Turkey is standing…
The specter of civil war is always looming over Lebanon, but, this time, the international community is not interested in…
The escape took place at 3:35 A.M. on September 6, 2021. Six prisoners, who all shared a cell, reportedly took…
If carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are not significantly reduced, global warming will reach over 2°C.
The modest diplomatic gains which al-Kadhimi has achieved stand at odds with numerous insurmountable political and economic challenges he faces…
In recent years, scholars have tried to apply the post-Islamism theory to different cases, specifically the contexts where political Islam…
What had to happen, happened. Algeria and Morocco have broken off their diplomatic relations. What will happen now?
It does not matter if a group won the country’s independence through arms or through dialogue – what matters at…
For Americans, participating in the New Silk Road should not be seen as a defeat or loss of standing in…
Natalia Grincheva’s Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age presents online museums as places of modern cultural diplomacy and explores how…
Kerry K. Gershaneck believes there is an urgent need to establish an Asian political warfare center of excellence, to investigate,…
Ben Bland’s Man of Contradictions shows how Joko Widodo’s presidency mirrors a range of modern Indonesia’s paradoxes: democracy and totalitarianism,…
Nowhere else in the world is the public debate about climate change as much dominated by alarmism and apocalyptic thinking…
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