Month: February 2016

The world watched transfixed as West Africa battled the Ebola virus during the epidemic that peaked in 2014. Borders and airports closed, but a few cases managed to escape the continent, creating international panic. Even though the threat of a ...

While the recent Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that North Korea has mastered the miniaturization process highlights recent advances in North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program, a number of key technological obstacles remain before Pyongyang can field a reliable nuclear ...

Abdelmalek Alaoui is a contributor for Forbes and writes about North Africa, the US and International Relations. Three years have elapsed since a Tunisian fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, triggered the biggest social and political upheaval of modern times in the ...

By Eugene Chausovsky Twenty years have passed since famed political scientist Samuel Huntington published his seminal work, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. To anyone interested in international relations, the book is as relevant today as it ...