By David Scott FitzGerald* – Foreign Affairs Trump Is Only the Latest to Embrace a Costly and Immoral Tactic. Just weeks into Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Department of Homeland Security began sending immigrants living in the United States to prisons in Costa Rica, El…
By Ronak Gopaldas* and Priyal Singh* – Institute for Security Studies (ISS) A back-to-basics approach may be needed to reverse the bloc’s flagging momentum. The recently concluded BRICS Leaders’ Summit in Rio took place against the backdrop of great geopolitical flux.
Ray* – Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) The current war raging in Sudan began on April 15, 2023, with violent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Two years later, the conflict shows no signs of abating…
By Emma Graham-Harrison* – The Guardian Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on…
By William LeoGrande* and Geoff Thale* – Responsible Statecraft The president’s new national security memo on Cuba reaffirms his old policy of punishment, which does nothing for US interests. President Trump’s new National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) on Cuba…
By Binoy Kampmark* – CounterPunch It makes for stark and dark reading. The report for the UN Human Rights Council titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide makes mention of “corporate entities” who have been enriched by “the Israeli economy of illegal…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com War and climate change are not isolated crises—they are intertwined. The war in Ukraine, now dragging into its fourth year, has not only redrawn geopolitical lines and devastated lives—it has also become one of the planet’s most…
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir* – Pressenza (New York) I understand the urgent need to reform our immigration policy to streamline the current chaotic and disjointed immigration laws. However, Trump’s approach to addressing migration will gravely affect the health of the economy, to which…
By Sarah Bush* and Jennifer Hadden* – Foreign Affairs How Civil Society Lost Its Post–Cold War Power. The 1990s were a golden age for nongovernmental organizations.
By Walden Bello* – Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) What can replace the global order? The recent unilateral strikes by the United States on Iran’s nuclear development sites underline the fact that multilateralism is dead, and has been so for some time.
