Indonesia’s presidential election took place on February 14, 2024. Prabowo Subianto’s election victory came with a surprise — success in almost all of the provinces of Papua. Prabowo’s sweeping ...

Ottawa sees itself admirably as a champion of the global downtrodden. While this is true to a large extent, there are two caveats. First, it is a selective champion. It has repeatedly scolded China ...

More than rice and beans or bread and butter, no combination has been as popular in Brazil this year as celebrities, ostentation, unrepentant behavior and questionable sectors where money circulates.

For decades, Pakistan has used state-sponsored terror as an instrument to buy geopolitical rent from the United States via Afghanistan. In the past, Pakistan gave ...

Yemen remains on the margins for the international community even as millions suffer from a deepening economic crisis and lack of humanitarian aid. It has been ten years since the Houthis, an ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT not only to better understand how AI “reasons” but also to see what it can tell me about the way I reason. It means engaging in a conversation where we are ...

Two years after the US successfully targeted the Al-Qaeda chief in Afghanistan, Israel allegedly conducted a covert operation in Iran, assassinating Ismail Haniyeh, a key Hamas leader. The operation ...

History is said to be a detailed narrative of what actually did happen. Learning lessons from it has been of great benefit to successive generations in their overall conduct of affairs. But, what if ...

Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine you have a group of five hundred men, and they want to decide how to run their society. They vote on whether to enact Proposition A or Proposition B to solve ...

In his Mandala Theory of foreign policy, the renowned ancient Indian philosopher Kautilya establishes that “the immediate neighbor state is most likely to be an enemy.” This thesis holds equal ...

The most challenging part of understanding psychology is that most of what people think they know about it is just wrong. Armchair psychologists and TikTok influencers propound the notion that ...

Cyprus has long been called Nisi Afroditi (“Aphrodite’s Island”), as the Greeks believed Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was born here. Despite this friendly moniker and the country’s rich culture, ...