The Lebanese government meeting on 5 September raised a question that has been hanging over Beirut for decades: can the state finally regain its monopoly...
Media coverage of the trial of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, tends to focus on the striking similarities between his case and the career of...
Some may wonder, "Why would countries so far apart from each other adopt hostile attitudes?" However, the root of the issue is historical. Among the only...
Kim Jong Un put on a command performance this week at a gathering of some two dozen world leaders in China, striding with confidence and...
The UK, France, and Germany's decision to initiate the snapback mechanism under UN Security Council Resolution 2231 on 28 August represents a significant shift in...
In a 2022 paper, I introduced an allegory I called the Incarceration Game – an academic exercise that explores how authoritarian leaders, when their popularity...
USAID was officially wound down at the start of this month, but even this was not enough for Donald Trump, who ordered the cancellation of...
