Asia should prepare for the next energy crisis

Continent-wide stockpile would prevent oil shortage when geopolitics cut off supply

Regulating AI: A Success Story for the European Union?

Regulation could be the key to providing a level playing field for companies to develop by ensuring legal certainty, and providing a good-practice...

Japan needs fight-style reform

Defense Minister Taro Kono has scrapped a plan to deploy Aegis Ashore, a land-based missile defense system. The decision has triggered a series of...

It's up to North Korea

By Tong Kim Recently, we have heard a flurry of discussions about the possibility of resuming negotiations or holding another summit between the...

Can Japan get out of its downward spiral?

Kizugawa, Kyoto Pref. – Since the mid-1990s, Japan appears to have fallen into a continuous negative spiral in every respect. The past decade...

Being ‘offensive’ in the digital era

One word you will hear a lot more in foreign policy and national security debates is “offensive.” There will be dire warnings about the dangers...

The assassination attempt of Nobusuke Kishi

Kobe – Politically, 1960 was one of most tumultuous years in Japan’s postwar history. It was also one of the most violent. Assassination attempts...

Pandemic of hunger

By Esther Ngumbi URBANA, ILLINOIS ― Around the world, food insecurity is spiking. Experts predict that the number of hungry people will double...

Public has little faith in return to school

By Francis Wilkinson President Donald Trump last week began demanding that schools open in the fall. It's a successor to his demand last spring...

Bilateralism in inter-Korea relations

By Sandip Kumar Mishra In the last few weeks, North Korea has made many provocative remarks about South Korea and blew up the inter-Korean liaison...

Čehi in Slovenci – zmagovalci tranzicije

Mestece je bilo nekajkrat povsem uničeno, zadnji primer boja proti vampirjem na tem prostoru pa so zabeležili prav tukaj: proces v Dubrovniku, ki...

Opinion – Bolsonaro’s Foreign Policy is Typically Latin American

The ideas guiding Bolsonaro’s foreign policy are not essentially different from those championed by many others who preceded him.

Rift over two deaths

Narrow social differences, promote integration The deaths of two public figures, leaders in their time and of our time, have opened a gaping divide...

Assistance for key industries

Electronics must be included among relief fund beneficiaries The government has named seven industries ― automobiles, shipbuilding, machinery,...

The French Monk Who Took on Himself to Be a Bridge in a Divided Land

Peter Beinart Doesn't Go Far Enough

Liberal Zionists are belatedly waking up to the only just alternative: a single state, shared by Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. But if Israeli...

The political logic of China’s strategic mistakes

Claremont, California – Some of the Chinese government’s recent policies seem to make little practical sense, with its decision to impose a...

America is being way too calm about COVID-19

New York – The accelerating resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States is filling me with dread. But what’s even scarier is the propensity of...

Friendship in Himalayas

By Kim Jin-heon Three years ago I climbed up to the Annapurna base camp in the Himalayas with nine others with the help of one guide and five...

Lessons from the Polish Opposition

LONDON – Although Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski did not come out on top in Poland’s presidential election, the result represents a turning point...

Tudi za draga stanovanja ne zmanjka kupcev

Ko je že kazalo, da bo nepremičninska gradnja v Ljubljani po desetih letih končno ujela pravi zalet, je v najslabšem trenutku udarila epidemija....

Three pioneers who predicted climate change

The notion that human activities might be warming the planet started coming into focus in the 1960s and ’70s, before a scientific consensus emerged...

Everything has a Story

Look around you, there are objects everywhere and each one of them has a story. Are they interesting stories? Well, that depends on how you tell it....

Here be black holes

There it floated, a luminous orange doughnut, glowing and fuzzy-edged, against a sea of darkness (Figure 1, below). Had it arrived without headline...

Training for the Pandemic Economy

BERKELEY – COVID-19 is not going away, and other dangerous viruses may be coming. This means it’s time to face the grim truth: many of the...

A tanka poet and doctor, Takashi Okai lived a remarkable life

“Gendai Hyakunin Isshu” (A modern version of a collection of one hundred waka poems by one hundred poets) was published 25 years ago. The...

Where Are All the Arab Billionaires?

Saving Generation COVID

ADDIS ABABA/LONDON – The oft-repeated idea that COVID-19 is “the great equalizer” is a myth. There is no equality of suffering or equality of...

Hagia Sophia reconnects modern Turkey with the legacy of the Ottomans

There is no doubt that Turkey’s decision to annul the 1934 Council of Ministers edict to convert the Hagia Sophia Mosque into a museum has...

Diplomacy as improvised stand-up comedy

Mr.İsmail Dümbüllü (1897-1973) was a most beloved comedian in his time in around the mid-twentieth century’s İstanbul of merely one million...

Return the Money, Netanyahu

Japan should end all support for exports of coal-fired plants

The government has decided to toughen its requirements for providing official assistance to exports of coal-fired power plants, as international...

Israel's Coronavirus Generation, Alone in Its Misery

American Isolation has its Roots in the European Position

The future of a US-dominated world is at an end already. This is becoming increasingly evident from the way the world, particularly the...

Fauda vs Ertugrul: Why the Battle Between Two TV Shows in India Is More Than a Culture War

Boosted by binge viewing during India’s coronavirus lockdown, two international TV series have won fanatic fans. Behind the small screen is a...

The court ruling has overturned a historic injustice; Hagia Sophia was already a mosque

Turkey’s senior administrative court issued a ruling on 1 July that annulled the 1934 decision of the Turkish Council of Ministers to transform...

Boris Johnson is threatening to undo UK's international standing

The United Kingdom has long been proud of the role and status of the Department for International Development (DfID) as a world leader in providing...

If it’s goodbye to Chinese goods, then it’s hello to runaway inflation

When you look at buying or renting a house in Britain, Europe or the United States, where properties are often significantly older than in Asia,...

A Comparative Study of US and Russia in Afghanistan: Local Repercussions

Comparing the Russian and the American wars in Afghanistan, the earlier in the 1980s and the later in post-2001 till to date, both experienced a...

The paradoxical deal of US, Taliban and the Afghan government

After two decades of war against terrorism and the Taliban, the United States of America and its allies have signed a landmark deal with the...

Movement

We describe great settings; then, the characters move. Their actions and behaviors convey their emotions. Describing physical sensations makes the...

The fact that Peter Beinart ‘no longer believes in a Jewish State’ tells us a lot

The irreconcilable tension within Zionism has been laid bare once again by prominent columnist and commentator Peter Beinart. For a number of...

Will Bolsonaro Survive the Pandemic?

WASHINGTON, DC – After months of downplaying the severity of COVID-19, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has contracted it. His symptoms have so...

Manchester City decision leaves Financial Fair Play dead in the water

The news that Manchester City have escaped punishment for the most serious charge against them comes at a huge cost to UEFA. They cannot be taken...

Retailers y marcas ¿intercambio de papeles?

A lo largo de los años retailers y proveedores (marcas comerciales) han cumplido a cabalidad sus responsabilidades y funciones sin invadir...

De pandemias y mundos posapocalípticos

La pandemia demuestra que el género pos-apocalíptico nos había acostumbrado a una perspectiva demasiado sombría sobre la capacidad de cooperación...

Africa Can’t Afford COVID-19 Tradeoffs

GENEVA – As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa surpasses 500,000, the new coronavirus is at the forefront of the public...