In the 1970’s Henry Kissinger argued that the goal of America’s Middle Eastern policy was to persuade the Arabs that the road to peace ran through...
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Articles
India’s Back to the Future Moment?
India has always been difficult for non-Indians to understand, maybe for many Indians as well. Sheer size and diversity make governance, never mind...
Masters Of War
Sudan is at war with itself. Since the 2019 uprising that booted Omar al-Bashir from office after thirty years, the country has experienced more...
Now for Something Completely Different
We live in a bipolar world: United States and Europe on one side; China and Russia on the other. And everyone else is expected to choose one or the...
Nous entendez-vous, Monsieur le Président?
French President Emmanuel Macron has had a rough few months. Weeks of sometimes violent protest against pension reform that he eventually imposed by...
Walking Blues
Imagine walking 2,000 miles from Honduras to the southern U.S. border, risking robbery, assault, even murder. Why do so many take the risk?...
More to Fear than Fear Itself: Does the West really want to win in Ukraine?
Russia’s war on Ukraine has metastasized into a brutal war of attrition. Anna Wieslander, Swedish defense and security expert, clearly worries that...
Israel’s Point of No Return
Israel’s domestic crisis has only intensified since we published our podcast with journalist Neri Zilber on March 16. More protests, more violence,...
Tällberg Network News
The Tällberg network is global, cutting across borders as well as barriers. Our participants share a worldview that what Bo Ekman used to call...