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The global economic outlook for 2012 and 2013 is exceptionally uncertain. With the euro crisis continuing to fester, a global credit crunch, and generalized slowdown threatening emerging markets, it remains unclear where growth will come from.
American basketball player Kevin Sheppard experiences life in Iran in the run-up to the 2009 uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement.
Turkey has a potentially valuable role to play in supporting democracy and state-building in the Arab world, but questions about that role abound.
Zogby Research Services conducted polling in eight countries across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in the United States, to look at public opinion on the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, the Arab Spring, and other recent developments in the region.
China’s traditional diplomacy is at a crossroads as it adjusts to the new global order. The financial crises, climate change, and regional instability have propelled China into a new global role and in turn, a new era of diplomacy.
The Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba has developed from a small resistance group to the most feared militant organization in South Asia and one with global reach.
Recently, China announced that it is considering an offer by the Seychelles to use its ports for resupplying naval vessels. Meanwhile, India is believed to be planning a cooperative effort with Vietnam on oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea.
The Nuclear Suppliers Group, which is responsible for establishing guidelines that govern the transfer of nuclear-related materials, equipment, and technology, faces a number of serious challenges.
Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, Russia has no choice but to reinvent itself as a global player and as part of a wider community.
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the creation of an independent Ukraine. Yet after two decades, there are still no easy answers to questions of Ukrainian identity.