Post-Truth Politics: The Symptom, the Cause and the Way Forward
Post-truth age, implicitly and explicitly, denotes the loss of truth, narrative and meaning. Thereafter, truth is merely a relic, an artifact, a notion, an...
OPEC in a Changing World
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a bloc of fourteen oil-rich states spanning the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Combined,...
The Changing Contours of World Politics: From Globalization to Regionalization
After the end of World War II, the world was divided into two ideological camps - the United States-led capitalist West and the Soviet...
The Geopolitical Flash Points of 2019
If 2018 was a year marked by international challenges that percolated but did not boil over into full-blown crises, next year may well be...
Oil, Geopolitics, and the Shifting Trade Winds
As the world’s most traded commodity, crude oil continues to exercise substantial leverage over the myriad geopolitical and geoeconomic imperatives that shape the global...
Islamophobia as a Threat to Global Peace: Politics, Media and Rhetoric
Etymologically, Islamophobia, as the combination of the words “Islam” and “Phobia” which derived from Phobos, known as “the god of horror” in ancient Greece,...
NATO Should Save the INF Treaty
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty a short reprieve this week. Rather than announcing that the United States...
Why China Is Worried About the End of the INF Treaty
The U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty reflects Washington’s long-standing concern that the treaty constrained its ability to counter China’s fast-growing missile forces in...
How THAAD Can Change the Proliferation Calculus
The relative increase in the number of countries seeking nuclear weapons represents the defining threat to humanity, thus making non-proliferation a vital goal of...
