By Christina Pazzanese – The Harvard Gazette Widespread armed conflict unlikely, but nation still in danger zone, says political scientist As the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol prepares for televised hearings later this…
By Borzou Daragahi – The Independent Djokovic saga has created a geopolitical storm while Serb nationalists consider him a martyr for their cause The troubles of anti-vaxxer tennis star Novak Djokovic in Australia are fuelling the flames…
By Anthony Dworkin* – European Council on Foreign Relations Tunisia’s international partners have responded too leniently to its president’s announced programme of constitutional reform. They risk allowing him to remain over-powerful for years to come.
By Darvio Morrow * – Newsweek Black Americans are tired of being ignored. That’s what we’re talking about amongst ourselves in conversations across the country. We’re tired of seeing the same people come into our neighborhoods every election cycle, scare us into voting for them…
Radio Free Asia Terms for having illegal walkie-talkies and breaking Covid-19 rules raise her jail time to six years. A military court sentenced deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison Monday for the illegal possession of walkie-talkies and breaking…
By Human Rights Watch Global Costs of Unlawful Detention and Interrogation Post-9/11 The first foreign Muslim men imprisoned by the US military at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the so-called “global war on terror.” Since January 2002, the US…
By Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro (*) – European Council on Foreign Relations Ten bright and bold policy projections for the year 2022 2021 was supposed to be the year of recovery: recovery from the coronavirus, recovery from the pandemic-induced recession, and –…
By Lili Bayer and Jan Cienski – POLITICO The Czech Republic and Slovakia look to fellow liberal democracies, while Hungary and Poland head in the opposite direction. The Visegrad Group of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic is known as the V4, but it’s turning into…
By Felix Light – The Moscow Times Experts believe Moscow risks being sucked into neighboring unrest and having to manage strategic instability on two fronts. Russia’s deployment of troops as part of a military alliance to put down growing protest in neighboring Kazakhstan…
By Stephen Reicher, Alex Haslam, Evangelos Ntontis, Klara Jurstakova (*) – The Conversation It was the moment that could have brought US democracy to its knees. One year ago, around noon on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump gave the concluding speech to a “Stop the Steal” rally in…
