Reopen the Investigation Into the Submarine Affair

In November 2016, just about two weeks after the case regarding Israel’s purchase of German submarines was made public, an unusual announcement...

Election highlights crisis of Thai junta rule

This is Peak Japan -- Letter to the editor

Govori ženska

Govori ženska, starejša zbirka nežnih pesmi Jurija Hudolina, mi je v mesecu žensk v kombinaciji s svetovnim dnevom poezije priplavala v...

JOC needs vast overhaul to solve the mess from the Takeda scandal

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) needs to restructure itself immediately. Its total cluelessness to the mess of its own making is beyond...

Problem EPP ni Viktor Orban

Črna internacionala, evropska ljudska stranka (EPP), bo danes morda izključila madžarski Fidesz, stranko predsednika vlade Viktorja Orbana. A...

Empathy is what makes us human

Humans deserve dignity — regardless of their nationality, race or religion. It is shocking that this fundamental principle is ignored in many parts...

Five observations regarding the New Zealand massacre

New Zealand has become part of the Jordanian debate lately. In the past, the name of this remote and quiet country was only mentioned at butchers...

Thailand’s democratic dictatorship

Analysis. After five years, the military rulers of Thailand, with help from the new king, have created a thoroughly undemocratic form of...

The Great Thaw: Climate Change and the Post-Cold War World

This article is an abridged version of a forthcoming article for The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, School of Diplomacy and...

Thuggery Returns: UK Sold Out Its Soul 2 Brexit

On Sunday March 10th Birmingham City F.C. met fierce local rivals Aston Villa F.C. in an English Championship fixture. About nine minutes into the...

Pop songs bring back bittersweet feelings related to graduation

I am immediately transported back to my teenage years when I hear on the radio or the Internet songs such as Hi-Fi Set's "Sotsugyo Shashin" (...

Tension in Belgrade as protesters demand Vucic’s resignation

Reportage. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic pardoned most of the people who commandeered a public television station Saturday, but he refuses to...

Roger Waters Can Continue to Growl, but Eurovision Has a More Serious Problem

Forecasts of the number of foreign visitors for May’s song competition in Tel Aviv have now been cut to about 20,000 amid high ticket prices and...

Indonesia has a lot in common with the Philippines – maybe too much, as Widodo and Prabowo take pages from Duterte’s playbook

In The Possessed (1872), Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky warned: “In turbulent times of upheaval or transition low characters always come to...

The hypocrisy of New Zealand's 'this is not us' claim

In response to what has been described as New Zealand's biggest terrorist attack, in which 50 people were gunned down in two mosques in the city of...

Why did Bush go to war in Iraq?

Sixteen years after the United States invaded Iraq and left a trail of destruction and chaos in the country and the region, one aspect of the war...

It’s Good to Die for the West Bank

A settler and a soldier forced to protect him are a symbolic combination of victims that in the Israeli reality seems entirely natural

China’s latest sci-fi blockbuster is a manifesto of Chinese exceptionalism

AS CHINA demonstrated its space credentials by landing a lunar probe on the far side of the moon in January 2019, a science fiction movie was...

The Philippines’ dilemma over Chinese capital

SINCE the end of the commodity boom, Asia’s developing countries must keep up with domestic growth expectations and regional competition by...

Coco Martin is one of the Philippines’ biggest stars – because he’s an everyman

Coco Martin is a Filipino everyman. In person, he’s shorter than you’d expect. Disarming; he’s also trim, handsome (but not too handsome) with...

Conservationists fight for ‘critically endangered’ status for Bornean wild cattle

AT THE headwaters of the Belantikan River on the island of Borneo, an organisation committed to protecting orangutans is extending its efforts to a...

Yet Another Victor Cha's Attempt to Stall US-DPRK Talks, or was it John Bolton's?

Not long ago, we examined two attempts which were made by Victor Cha—failed US Ambassador to South Korea and one of the most odious foreign...