‘Run them over’: The rise of a new Sinophobia and its dangers to us all
More than 1,000 acts of racism against Asian Americans have been reported since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.
More than 1,000 acts of racism against Asian Americans have been reported since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.
The battle for Idlib underscores Russia’s increasing dilemma on how to deal with Turkey as Moscow becomes increasingly active on key MENA dossiers in which Ankara has high stakes.
Some have written Trump’s political obituary with the fallout from the coronavirus, but in our post-truth era, his xenophobia and nationalism may end up helping his reelection chances.
Concerted efforts to systematically weaken nations can no longer be considered responsible governance by national leaders.
A parallel narrative that unfolded alongside the post-9/11 wars exposes the utter irrelevance of the national security state as currently constituted.
The COVID-19 outbreak, while frightening, presents an opportunity to reconsider some of our fundamental assumptions about sovereignty, international relations, and global power itself.
The Bush administration cracked the U.S.-European alliance and the Trump administration appears poised to finish the job.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s call for lifting the economic sanctions on Iran is an appropriate gesture, and history has shown that Iranians never forget those who have extended a helping hand.
The federal government has partnered with commercial airlines to ferry Americans to, from, and in between foreign countries before. Why isn’t it happening now?
Investments in critical human needs, from diplomacy and global health initiatives to build economic resiliency and mitigating the growing climate crisis, have been gutted to bankroll our endless wars.
As the crisis worsens, it’s likely that Donald Trump will seek to acquire more emergency powers to the executive branch, likely with broad public support.
It’s important to separate warning from prediction and look out for blame shifting to the intelligence community.
Saudi Arabia is already fomenting one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises — why are we asking them to help solve another?
Fostering good governance means fighting the xenophobia and crude nationalism that so often poison the political climate that is conducive to it.
The Trump administration isn’t relenting on its ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran because it exists to create a humanitarian crisis.
The only viable way of managing the crisis is not a shrinking of the public space in favor of the state, but a widening of the public space in partnership with the state in order to meet the challenge.
This crisis is exposing just how senseless Washington’s approach to Pyongyang has been for the last seventy years, and why it must change as soon as possible.
The coronavirus doesn’t care whether there’s a war going on in Afghanistan, which makes the resource-starved country’s humanitarian crisis even worse.
The Trump administration claims to support Iranian citizens, but it won’t put its anti-Iran hysteria on hold for a minute to help them out amid a pandemic.
Middle Eastern rulers are not learning the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, nor do they see it as an opportunity to negotiate new social contracts.
Not only is the Trump administration refusing to help, it has also increased sanctions on Iran.