A growing culture of drug trafficking and use needs strong action. Along its western front, Pakistan shares a 2250 km long border with the war-torn country of Afghanistan. The fact ...
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 ...
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 ...
New found freedoms and old restraints still control clash in modern China. My fascination with China began in 1989. I was 14 then and the image of the man who ...
2015 was the year authoritarian governments struck back against democratic pressures. The story of 2015 in Southeast Asia was Myanmar’s November election. In giving the National League for Democracy and ...
As I entered the villager’s house in coastal Papua and removed my shoes, I was told to bring them in inside – otherwise the Orang Wamena (mountain clan) would steal ...
As Ban Ki-moon’s current tenure comes to a close in 2016, January sees the start of the marathon campaign for the selection of a new UN Secretary-General. After months of ...
The year 2015 may have marked the end of an era in Chinese journalism. Until recently, liberal, commercial print media engaged in aggressive and influential reporting that also formed part ...
The drone prototype will conduct flight tests over the South China Sea in 2016. Vietnam revealed its largest indigenous high-altitude long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) this December, IHS Jane’s ...
A look at the potential implications a DPP victory could have for Taiwan, mainland China, and the United States. Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections are just around the corner — ...