Why Middle East needs an EU-like regional order
The UAE and Turkey last week exchanged accusations regarding Libya, with each party claiming that the other is a hostile, destabilizing force in the...
U.S. economy slows sharply as oil and gas slump deepens Kemp
The U.S. economy eked out anaemic growth in the final three months of 2015, and the struggling performance of the oil and gas sector...
Pandemic challenges Europe’s sense of itself
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on how nations interact with each other. A pandemic is by definition global, and demands global responses; but...
ISIS has erased the line between foreign and domestic policy
Not since the Vietnam War has a foreign-policy issue transformed Western domestic politics in the way the threat from Islamic State (ISIS) has. Neither...
Tensions in US-Turkish relations
Turkish authorities arrested a Turkish employee at the US Consulate in Istanbul on charges of espionage, conspiring to overthrow the Turkish government, and engaging...
Pope-onomics Francis' keys to a better economy – and world
During a long flight home from Paraguay to Rome in July, after a South American tour full of jeremiads against global capitalism's ills, Pope...
Saudi Arabia’s ‘image deficit’? We are part of the problem.
The recent attack on a British man by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) in...
Oil production freeze is only the first step
Oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar announced on Tuesday an agreement to freeze their oil output levels provided other major producers...
Why migrants are going to great lengths to avoid this EU country
Nine months after Fadi, a refugee from Homs, Syria, landed in Cyprus on a boat carrying some 340 smuggled refugees, he still had not...
U.S. economy slows sharply as oil and gas slump deepens
The U.S. economy eked out anaemic growth in the final three months of 2015, and the struggling performance of the oil and gas sector...
