“I Kept Three Copies of My Novels Lest They Get Confiscated”: An Interview with Freed Palestinian Prisoner Esmat Mansour
The prisoners responded to it with more unity and protesting by returning food and sending warning messages.
Afghanistan Bans Opium Cultivation amid Economic Breakdown
n Saturday, April 2, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid announced a ban on opium cultivation, opium use, and trade, and warned that crops would be destroyed, and perpetrators would be punished according to Sharia law.
Central Asia Countries “Tread a Fine Line” on Russia-Ukraine
he Haydar Aliyev Centre for Eurasian Studies at Ibn Haldun University in Turkey held a webinar on the impact of the war in Ukraine on Central Asia on March 30, 2022.
De-Dollarizing Trade: How the Global Trade Finance Gets More Nationalized
Furthermore, geopolitical troubles and the impact of currency wars can be better managed in such an internally controlled relationship with no exposure to USD influence.
Ukraine’s Military Transformation between 2014 and 2022
In order to increase its warfighting capability, structural reforms in command and control, training, education, and infrastructure were initiated.
Can the Taliban Deal with their Handicaps?
Read: Five Prominent Challenges for the TalibanToday, as the world's attention shifts more on the war in Ukraine and less on Afghanistan’s status under the Taliban, those past tactics are creeping up again.
Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks: Turkey as the Peacemaker
However, it is important for the two sides to talk while the war is ongoing, also given the fact that there is no other hope to end the war.
Normalizing with the Assad regime, Different Approaches at Different Levels
However, in the coming years, political changes occurred in some Arab countries such as in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, causing a departure from regime change politics to the restoration of pre-Arab spring MENA security order, thus affecting the regional attitude towards the Syrian regime.
American Political Opportunism and the Long Overdue Rohingya Genocide Determination
Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award, and Padoh Saw Taw Nee, head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Karen National Union, Myanmar’s oldest resistance organization, publicly urged the United States government to release the $1 billion Myanmar sovereign fund frozen by Blinken’s boss, President Biden, following the coup in Myanmar so that the money could be used to fund Myanmar’s rightful resistance against the “terrorist”-like occupying military.
Power Politics and Moral Accountability
In all of the would-be superpowers, generals and diplomats think they can choose their own wars.
Foreign Fighters Arrive in Scores to Fight in Ukraine
Read: Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Global Struggle for PowerThe United States has stated that it has yet to observe the "actual arrival" of foreign fighters from the Middle East to Ukraine.
Ukraine: The Lesson Japanese Policy-Makers Won’t Learn
More to the point, however, the Japanese political elite has banked heavily on the military alliance with the United States, as a bulwark against China and a means towards regaining economic hegemony in the region.
Iran Nuclear Talks: Iran-Russia Cooperation Exempted from U.S. Sanctions
Read: Iran’s Bitter Choice and the Russia-Ukraine WarRussia faced criticism from the E3 (France, Germany, and the UK) in a joint statement which accused it of exploiting JCPOA negotiations to secure assurances unrelated to the agreement, which Ned Price, the spokesperson for the U.
Ukraine is Assad’s New Dilemma
Now pro-Assad Syrian forces will reportedly go to Ukraine to fight on Russia’s side in this war.
The Urge to Kill to Survive: Russia’s Imperialist Expansionism Explained
It seems highly likely that a romantic yearning for the Russian imperial days of the 18th century and the Communist Soviet system of the Cold War may be an underlying motivation.
Selective Solidarity with War Victims: Ukrainian and Palestinian Refugees
he scenes of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees fleeing war to Europe have received unprecedented western media coverage and solidarity.
“Historical Russia”: Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish Nationalisms
However, faced with the rebellion of the non-Russian population of the Lower Volga region and the Southern Urals, which is known in Russian historiography as the “Peasants’ War” or “Pugachev's Rebellion,” led by Yemelyan Pugachev (1773-1775), Catherine II quickly curtailed all research efforts in the area, and made all the results of studies obtained at the time public but only to a narrow circle of academic professors.
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Implications for the Two Koreas
tensions with China, portend the likelihood of a new Cold War between the U.
Ukrainian Refugees Continue to Flood Europe
The war has so far has cost tens of thousands of lives and can leave a war-torn Ukraine behind.
China’s Sanctions against Lithuania Go Almost Unnoticed
Amidst the EU trend to criticize China on human rights issues, and its leniency towards Taiwan and Hong Kong, China’s harsh stance is exemplary of the consequences of what other nations might encounter if the “One China” policy is challenged.
