Diplomacy has become more critical for Israel than the military battlefield, especially after the genocide in Gaza and Israel's isolation on the world stage. Winning over the growing ranks of far-right voters can help improve Israel's image
Diplomacy has become more critical for Israel than the military battlefield, especially after the genocide in Gaza and Israel's isolation on the world stage. Winning over the growing ranks of far-right voters can help improve Israel's image
Can the UN be reformed into a working institution promoting peace, justice and no more genocides? Figuratively speaking, for this to happen, it needs many more Türkiyes; copycats very welcomeKlaus Jurgens
The deterioration of Algeria-UAE relations should not be seen simply as another episode of intra-Arab diplomatic rivalry. It is part of a larger restructuring of power in North Africa and the African Sahel
Saudi Arabia must realize the risks of allowing its long-term security to rest indefinitely on an external guarantor. A more durable regional order would require the states of Middle East to assume greater responsibility for their own securityGiorgio Cafiero
The most important outcome of Sept. 20 elections may be seen not as one party's success over another, but rather the strengthening of centrifugal dynamics within Germany's party system.Nurgul Bekar
By meeting this week, the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had 2 main aims: 1) reassure their supporters that they remain committed to the cause of independence and 2) put pressure on a new British prime ministerTim Bale
In the absence of conditions for a broad agreement, upcoming meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump during UN General Assembly could offer next opportunity to test prospects for limited truceMaksym Skrypchenko
Foundations, once repriced, are rarely restored to par. Trust denominated in dollars can always be devalued again. That is the lesson of this strange August on the Korean Peninsula—and it will outlast any summitGiwoong Jung04 September 2026
Israel continues to create regional instability by illegally invading free neighbouring nations and the Achilles Shield deal with Greece is part and parcel of that trendKlaus Jürgens03 September 2026
In August 2026, Beijing ordered state agencies to strip out Windows build and move to domestic Linux systems. The clearer reading, then, is that Beijing's replacement drive, more than Washington's controls, forms the lasting constraintAryamehr Fattahi02 September 2026
Any significant change in the regional balance inevitably generates reactions. But it would be premature to assume that Mecca will automatically produce an opposing formal allianceKhaled Mohammed Batarfi01 September 2026
The main priority for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization going forward should not be further expansion, but rather converting its sheer size into actual power.Ilyas Kemaloglu31 August 2026
Removal of the final US sanctions on Syria constitutes a renewed diplomatic triumph for Damascus and Ankara, while signaling yet another setback for Tel Aviv's objectives in the Syrian arena
Ahmet Arda Sensoy28 August 2026
Ignoring a Red Notice linked to crimes committed against Gazans and humanitarian aid workers would constitute a controversial political stance, one that governments would struggle to justify to voters and the broader global communityAli Osman Karaoglu27 August 2026
Multiple factors, from a shared white nationalist ideology to explicit political endorsements, explain unprecedented rapprochement between US Republican Party and European far rightFarid Hafez26 August 2026
Netanyahu's ultra-conservative government has been progressively sowing the seeds of discord with Türkiye, especially after Ankara gained the upper hand in Syria and started helping rebuild the countryIlnur Cevik24 August 2026
In a system increasingly comfortable with turning land into wasteland and political prisoners into objects, the crocodiles may get more immediate legal protection than people inside the prisonRaed Mohammed Mahmood Amer21 August 2026
