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Imran KhalidCommon Dreams |
The international community’s approach to conflict resolution has undergone a profound and dangerous structural shift, moving away from the pursuit...
The massive aerial assault unleashed upon Kyiv and its surrounding regions this week offers a sobering window into the raw, industrial nature of...
Washington's shift to a hyper-transactional foreign policy framework has weakened its strategic architecture, making Taiwan a flexible variable in the...
The Trump administration is framing its barrage of sanctions announced on April 24, targeting the Hengli Petrochemical refinery in Dalian and 40...
The Trump administration has undermined the State Department by relying on personal fixers rather than professional diplomats, resulting in a lack of...
The images coming out of Luanda and Douala this weekend offer a striking contrast to the rhetoric emanating from Washington. While the White House...
The current volatility in the Middle East has once again placed the global security architecture under immense strain. Despite a fragile ceasefire,...
The collapse of the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, followed swiftly by Washington’s announcement of a maritime blockade of the Strait of...
The recent announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran has been met with a predictable mix of relief and skepticism....
As global markets continue to churn under the weight of a month-long conflict in the Gulf, the strategic map of the world is shifting in a quiet but...
Spain's closure of its airspace to U.S. military aircraft involved in the conflict with Iran marks a shift away from the "blank check" era of American...
The high-level negotiations in Paris this week between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng represent more than...
The National Defense Strategy of 2026 represents a shift away from collective security and towards a high-tech shield, potentially isolating the U.S....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declined to attend Donald Trump's inaugural Board of Peace meeting, signaling that sovereign survival cannot be...
In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia established a revolutionary principle that has anchored global order for nearly four centuries: the legal equality of...
The global security landscape has shifted to one of unmapped volatility, with the expiration of the New START treaty, a high-stakes "Board of Peace"...
In the corridors of Washington, the world is increasingly viewed through the narrow prism of a besieged fortress. For the nations of the Indo-Pacific,...
For much of the last half-century, the study of global exchange rates has been treated as a branch of physics. In the hallowed halls of neoclassical...
For nearly eight decades, the U.S. dollar has occupied a place in the global order that no other currency has matched. It is the world’s default...
Europe is entering a moment of renewed strategic doubt. Conversations about security that once seemed theoretical have taken on a sharper edge as...
The agreement by NATO members to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035 has been welcomed across Western capitals as a moment of strategic...
The Arctic, once a distant and desolate expanse, is now at the epicenter of global competition. March 2025 marked a grim milestone: the smallest...
If global climate diplomacy feels stuck, China’s new 2035 roadmap offers a reminder that ambition and realism can coexist. As world leaders gather...
The United States and China are locked in another round of economic confrontation, with actions on both sides intensifying a dispute that has simmered...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin offered the kind of optics global diplomacy excels at: smiling leaders, carefully staged...
As teachers and families, we need to acknowledge that not being on your phone is going to be difficult, since I think a lot of people are down…...
In the bustling ports of Shanghai and Los Angeles, containers once stalled by trade wars now move with renewed purpose—a quiet testament to the...
When Circle, the world’s second-largest dollar stablecoin company, floated its shares at the start of June, the reaction was euphoric. By June 27,...
The latest Sino-American “handshake”—a 90-day pause on tariffs, semiconductor export bans, and rare-earth chokeholds agreed in Geneva and...
By now, it should surprise no one that Benjamin Netanyahu prefers the echo chamber of his own making to the international chorus demanding...
The latest military confrontation between India and Pakistan is not a spontaneous response to terrorism.
India and Pakistan appear once again to be inching towards the precipice of a perilous confrontation in the wake of a terrorist attack in Pahalgam in...
Forget equities. Ignore bond yields. If you want to measure the scale of global anxiety right now, look at gold.
In another characteristically brash maneuver, Donald Trump has intensified his economic confrontation with Beijing, announcing an unprecedented 125...
President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping reciprocal tariffs, branded as “Liberation Day,” signals a tectonic shift in global trade...
In the last decade, a profound shift has taken place in global academia that has fundamentally altered the hierarchy of scientific research. China,...