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Opinion

From Roosevelt to Trump: The Complicated Legacy of Personal Diplomacy

by Tizoc Chavez

2024/11/15

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Why do Filipinos Support Hard-Liner President Duterte?

by Rikard Jalkebro

2019/05/27

In the West, support for Philippines' hard-liner President Duterte is seen as odd. International media focus on Duterte’s often outlandish...

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) during his victory speech at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters after his re-election

Opinion

India’s TsuNaMo: Modi’s Triumph Signals Departure of Secularism and Diversity

by Indrajit Roy

2019/05/24

India's election outcome is a ringing endorsement of the alternative 'idea of India' which departs from the ideas of secularism,...

Visitors pass in front of the Huawei's stand on the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelonaon on February 27, 2017 in Barcelona

Opinion

How the Crackdown on Huawei Will Force China to Become Self-Sufficient

by Howard Yu

2019/05/23

The US crackdown on Huawei, paradoxically, may awaken a Chinese determination to become totally self-sufficient across the entire IT value...

President of the United States Donald Trump and President of China, Xi Jinping attend a meeting of business leaders

Opinion

Trump Will Not be Heralding Victory in Trade War with China Anytime Soon

by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

2019/05/23

Trump has a case when he says that the Chinese are ‘eating our lunch’ and that China needs to be...

Opinion

Rise of Euroscepticism Won’t Spell End for European Union

by Alina Bârgăoanu and Clara Volintiru

2019/05/22

After this week’s elections, anti-European forces are likely to have a stronger voice in the European Parliament. However, their fragmentation...

Argentina's President Mauricio Macri gestures while reading a statement

Opinion

Can Argentina’s Stubborn Poverty be Fixed?

by Christopher Wylde

2019/05/21

There are reasons to believe that Argentina will return to growth in the first half of 2019 and inflation will...

Pakistani students of a madrasa or Islamic school recite the Quran at a seminary in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2015

Opinion

Pakistan’s Plan to Reform Madrasas Ignores Why Parents Enrol Children in First Place

by Myriam Renaud

2019/05/20

Pakistan’s latest drive to reform its Islamic schools, called madrasas, is unlikely to check the radicalization and violent extremism that...

Migrant women and children with a US border patrol officer

Opinion

Asylum Seekers Leave Everything Behind but Burden of Proof Weighs them Down

by Fernando Moreno

2019/05/17

As an asylum seeker, the burden of proof is entirely yours. It is your job to tell the traumatic stories...

US National Security Advisor John Bolton

Opinion

The Existential Threat of Existential Threat Rhetoric

by Gregory Foster

2019/05/17

The term 'existential threat' has become such a mind-numbingly pervasive part of the lingua franca of national security affairs that...

Forensic personnel load the corpse of a man into a van, after he was executed at a shopping mall in Acapulco, Mexico, on April 24, 2018

Opinion

Mexico Must Solve Corruption Before it Can Attack Violence

by Hector Dominguez Ruvalcaba

2019/05/16

If the pace of homicides in Mexico doesn’t slow down in the next few months, 2019 will end in a...

Opinion

Trump’s Reckless Iran Policies Could End in Deadly and Costly War

by Ben Armbruster

2019/05/15

Trump has needlessly put the US on a collision course with Iran that could result in, at best, a return...

Sudanese protesters rally outside the army complex in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on April 18, 2019

Opinion

The Inner Demons of Sudan’s Democratic Transition

by Andrew Tchie

2019/05/15

Despite Sudan's powerful generals and opposition leaders agreeing in principle to the formation of a joint civilian-military council, the country's...

Ethnic Uyghurs take part in a protest march asking for the European Union to call upon China to respect human rights in the Chinese Xinjiang region and asking for the closure of "re-education centers."

Opinion

Religious Repression and Cultural Decimation: Spare a Thought for Uyghurs this Ramadan

by Omer Kanat

2019/05/14

The Chinese state’s assault on Uyghur religious belief and practice is not only an attack on Islamic values but also...

US President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran deal from the Diplomatic Reception room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 13, 2017

Opinion

Trump’s Iran Strategy Ramps Up Risks of War

by Paul Knott

2019/05/14

President Trump’s decision to renege on the Iran nuclear deal has considerably ramped up the risks of the US being...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at a campaign rally.

Opinion

Rescuing South Africa with an Election?

by Heribert Adam

2019/05/12

As long as a robust free media exists, an independent judiciary has the last word, and an active civil society...

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his state of the nation

Opinion

Trump-Orban Meeting is Chance for US to Defend Hungary’s Embattled Freedoms

by Daniel Balson and Dávid Vig

2019/05/11

A free media, civil society, and citizenry serve a critical purpose: they are a check on abuses of power and...

People wave LGBTI rights' movement rainbow flags during the gay pride rally in Saint Petersburg

Opinion

Chasing Rainbows: Some Country’s LGBTI Fight Not Just for Equality, but Survival

by Elise Carlson-Rainer

2019/05/10

LGBTI rights is a broad term that can denote different concepts in different countries. In many Western nations, it refers...

A migrant girl looks on as she waits for a food distribution at the makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border village of Idomeni, on April 5, 2016

Opinion

Lessons from Sweden: How Not to Solve an Asylum Crisis

by Bernd Parusel

2019/05/09

Sweden still struggles with thousands of young Afghans who arrived in 2015 and applied for asylum. A comprehensive solution is...

A Tokyo Electric Power Co.employee tours the Fukushima nuclear power plant

Opinion

Eight Years After Fukushima: Returning Home?

by Becky Alexis-Martin

2019/05/09

Eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, about 81,000 people remain displaced. The families of Fukushima have made lives for...

People in Basque Country holding up flags.

Opinion

Newspaper Gara Victim of Spain’s Ideological Persecution of Basque Independence Movement

by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

2019/05/08

After 20 years of uninterrupted circulation, the Basque daily Gara faces its biggest challenge yet: overcoming political and judicial persecution imposed through...