Browsing: Politics
The argument that the United States can save money by stepping back from NATO is politically simple and economically incomplete.…
Britain’s push for longer-range weapons matters because the armed forces are trying to compensate for shrinking mass with the ability…
The competition to mine helium-3 on the Moon matters less because the resource is immediately profitable than because it reveals…
The Black Sea has moved from Europe’s periphery to the centre of its security and economic agenda. What remains missing…
Turkey’s central role in NATO matters now because the alliance’s most difficult strategic problems—from the Black Sea to the Middle…
Pakistan’s emergence as a channel between Washington and Tehran matters because military escalation has repeatedly moved faster than formal diplomacy.…
The risk of a Turkey-Israel clash matters because the two powers are now contesting the same space in Syria, where…
Somalia’s political and military establishment is marking the death of Haji Ali Abdille Fiixiye, better known as Colonel Ali Shoocaac,…
Somalia is widening its diplomatic map, and Mauritania is the latest stop in a push to turn African relationships into…
Somalia’s civil-service reform drive is moving from payrolls and procedures to the culture inside government offices. The National Civil Service…