Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University The U.S. has dispatched eight Army and Navy vessels from Virginia to build a temporary pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The aim of this work: to supply…
Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University and Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore in Israeli politics, someone always comes along with a new twist.…
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Ahmet T. Kuru, Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University I…
Alessandro Poletto, Lecturer in East Asian Religions, Arts & Sciences at Washington…
Ben Wellings, Monash University When Rishi Sunak was elected by Conservative MPs as their new leader and hence prime minister of the United Kingdom, the British nation breathed a sigh of relief:…
Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield As Liz Truss stepped away from the lectern outside No.10 Downing Street after resigning as leader of her party, it probably occurred to her that her time…
Garret Martin, American University School of International Service The U.K. government is in tatters after Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned on Oct. 20, 2022 – the second leader to be forced out…
Garret Martin, American University School of International Service The U.K. government – and its leader, Prime Minister Liz Truss – appears to be in a spot of trouble, to use a typically…
Aaron Pilkington, University of Denver The war in Ukraine is helping one country achieve its foreign policy and national security objectives, but it’s neither Russia nor Ukraine. It’s Iran. That was starkly…
Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service In response to massive battlefield setbacks, Russia has increased its attacks in Ukraine on everything from power plants and dams to railways, pipelines and…
Robert M. Dover, University of Hull On the 70th birthday of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Nobel prize committee recognised the work of three winners who are all battling against Putin or…
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology The world as we know it cannot function without oil, giving oil-producing countries an advantage economists call market power. Nations that produce oil are able…
Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has…
Matthew Sussex, Australian National University Vladmir Putin has a new problem. His invasion of Ukraine is not just bogged down. It’s going rapidly backwards. Ukraine’s armed forces have launched two stunningly successful…
