Global Forum

Nile Basin: Toward a New Era of Regional Cooperation

By Ana Elisa Cascão
April 30, 2018

Nile Basin countries must establish a wider cooperative framework to achieve efficient transboundary cooperation.

Empowering Women to Ride?

By Nadeen Shaker
April 21, 2018

New developments and challenges for women riders and drivers in the Ride-hailing industry.

The UN’s Crimes of Omission

By Nabil Fahmy
March 15, 2018

As conflicts keep erupting worldwide, the UN must seriously consider limiting the P5’s veto power.

Failure of the International Security System

By Nabil Elaraby
March 3, 2018

Since its inception, the United Nations Security Council has been paralyzed by the political agendas of the great powers. If the Council is to achieve its main goal of maintaining peace and security, the international community must reconsider the veto power and its impact on the Council’s effectiveness.

2030 Agenda: Prerequisites for Success in Africa

By Laila El Baradei
December 15, 2017

If African countries are to achieve their Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, major changes are needed in the fields of funding, allocation of resources, and developing the necessary institutions.

Behind Putin’s Iron Curtain

By Dimitar Bechev
June 1, 2017

Russia needs the West—but the realpolitik driving its foreign policy demands it be treated as an equal.

Extremism Watch in Pakistan

By Madiha Afzal
May 24, 2017

A “National Action Plan” to combat terrorism is incomplete without the state confronting its own history of supporting radical Islamism.

Will Trump Help South Sudan?

By Steven C. Roach
May 10, 2017

Resolving the conflict in Africa’s youngest country brings to the fore contradictions in President Trump’s foreign policy.

Trump, Congress, and Democracy

By Stein Ringen
March 8, 2017

The rot in American politics is more than just a passing crisis.

India’s Dream Jobs

By Faisal Hamid
January 10, 2017

Narendra Modi is prime minister of India because voters believed he could boost growth and deliver jobs. So far, he has succeeded in the first goal but failed dramatically in the second.

Greece Bears EU’s Refugee Burden

By Kostas Kallergis
October 3, 2016

Europe remains an unreliable partner for Greece in handling the refugee crisis.

Why the Subcontinent’s Dynasties Are Falling

By Faisal Hamid
September 23, 2016

Old political dynasties are losing their grip on power as South Asian democracies change.

Hunger Games in Caracas

By Fernanda Uro Aboites
July 27, 2016

Socialism didn’t fail in Venezuela, because it never happened.

The Death of Qandeel Baloch

By Rozina Ali
July 21, 2016

How the murder of a social media star reveals deeper problems in Pakistani society.

Foreign Policy, Interrupted

By Lauren E. Bohn
July 5, 2015

To respond to a stark gender disparity in foreign affairs, a new non-profit works to get more women miked, quoted, and bylined.

Letter from China

By John Battersby
July 5, 2015

The Beijing regime is nervous that digital technology in the form of social media and other tools is chipping away at the Communist Party’s authoritarian system of control.

Reflections of a Media Critic

By Danny Schechter
January 25, 2015

The American political system is broken, and political journalism has played a part in that failure.

Rise of the South

By Vijay Prashad
May 15, 2014

Within the decade, the United States will no longer be the largest economy in the world. What will end, and has already begun to end, is not U.S. power but U.S. primacy.

Letter from Brazil

By Filipe Nasser
February 15, 2014

Since at least the late nineteenth century, the Middle East has been an intrinsic part of our national narrative of racial and ethnic blending.

Land of Immigration

By Mark J. Miller
April 1, 2013

A long-serving former head of the Migrants Branch of the International Labor Organization W.R. Boehning once wrote that, “The history of mankind is a history of migration.” Egyptians, better than most, know the value of Boehning’s insight.