Governments built the current systems and institutions of international cooperation to address 19th- and 20th-century problems.
“A victim of its own success?
Mental health professionals and others have been trying to warn the public of the dangers of U.S. President Donald Trump since his election.
“Inequality” is the key word that is being highlighted strongly in the international development arena.
With every new explosive decision that comes out of the White House these days, the world, including America’s allies, asks itself: Whatever happened to the...
Since 1958, when Lebanon woke up to find that U.S. Marines had been dispatched to the country’s shores, the Lebanese have always been aware of the special...
When the debris settles after special counsel Robert Mueller completes his investigation into Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, America will...
Though economics aspires to the rigor of the natural sciences, at the end of the day it is still a social science.
Britain is in turmoil as the Brexit deadline approaches.
Negotiations on geoengineering technologies ended in deadlock at the recent United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, when a Swiss-backed...
When the Great Depression followed the 1929 stock-market crash, almost everyone acknowledged that capitalism was unstable, unreliable and prone to stagnation....
As an investigation continues to understand what caused the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 Flight ET302 Sunday March 10, 2019, the U.S....
On March 19, the only president that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, Nursultan Nazarbayev, announced his resignation after almost three decades of near...
Ten years ago, during his first trip to Europe as U.S. president, Barack Obama delivered an historic speech in Prague.
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves” - Shakespeare.
Where in Europe are you most likely to see the European Union flag proudly flying above private homes and buildings? The answer is obvious, if strange: the...
Last week, a far-right extremist killed at least 50 people including a 3-year-old child worshiping at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch....
When General Motors idled its auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio, this month, U.S. President Donald Trump adopted a familiar strategy: He issued a nasty string of...
The market for illicit drugs represents the world’s largest criminal commodity business.
The United Kingdom’s protracted attempt to leave the European Union has upended the two illusions by which the world has lived since the end of the Cold War:...
Looking at the global scale of modern-day slavery, any effort to fight it might at first seem fruitless.
Today, we cannot deny how progress in technology has brought people many things that they did not have in the past. Today, online gaming is one of the most...
After the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Le Monde famously proclaimed that “Today, we are all Americans.”
One of the lessons of the Ebola epidemic is the need to improve the African countries’ public health services, which have suffered the consequences of decades...
Five years after Russia annexed Crimea, there is no reason to believe the peninsula’s status will change anytime soon.
It is convenient to call the escalating geopolitical contest between the United States and China a “new cold war.”
The need to break the stereotypes about women in the Arab world remains important. One of the ways to do that is to recognize the role that Arab women...
Ahead of Israel’s parliamentary elections on April 9, Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political future and possibly personal freedom, with Attorney...
Sen. Mark Warner is all for defense modernization. But just don’t touch those aircraft carriers, six of which are based in Norfolk.