How did President el-Sisi lift the economy of Egypt?
Firas Samuri | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was recently re-elected as President of Egypt. His victory at the election was quite predictable considering the support among...
Remembering Syria: Iran struggles with potentially explosive environmental crisis
James M Dorsey | Iranian leaders are struggling, three months after anti-government protests swept the Islamic republic, to ensure that environmental issues that helped sparked...
Is Muhommad Bin Salman trying to strike a deal with Assad?
Andrew Korybko | Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman recently acknowledged that Syrian President Assad will more than likely remain in office. He said this groundbreaking...
An Indian counter narrative on Maldives
M K Bhadrakumar | The Maldives is back in the headlines. This time around, it is not about democracy deficit or rule of law. Two...
OPCW vote & South Asia: Why Pakistan backed Russia but India abstained
Andrew Korybko | Russia’s failed effort to get the OPCW to open up a joint investigation of the Skripal case importantly proved that the South...
Is it true that “Money Can’t Buy You Happiness”
Leon Ho | Think of the last time you bought something you really wanted. How did you feel afterward? It felt good. Now, is there something...
Trump and his generals lock horns over Syria
M K Bhadrakumar | The military is the same the world over. In 1992, the conversation would have gone like this in South Block: “Sir, it...
Mohammed bin Salman dazzles international media by lifting restrictions on women
James M Dorsey | Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has dazzled international media and public opinion by lifting some restrictions on women’s rights, holding...
Is Trump the most amicable US President Putin will ever see?
M K Bhadrakumar | A fortnight after sacking Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and a week after kicking out Lt. General HR McMaster from...
Beating the Indian Navy without going broke
Shahid Raza | A brief look at the history of warfare is enough to establish the dominant role of a naval force in defining the...
Digital Literacy in the 21st century Pakistan
Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq | We see and hear the phrase “21st century” almost everywhere. Perhaps the term has become so ubiquitous that it has lost...
Russia and US reminiscing the Cold War
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The United States gradual fading of two-decades’ sole super power stature is giving way to the blocks solidarity in the...