Financial assistance has a limited role, but sharp cutbacks would precipitate a fiscal and state collapse, making peace even more distant. As American troops leave Afghanistan, U.S. policymakers are trying to find other tools to advance peace between the Taliban and the Afghan government. One possible instrument is financial aid, …

Boko Haram and now banditry force children out of schools, risking a ‘lost generation.’ This week’s latest mass kidnapping of Nigerian schoolchildren underscores that the crumbling of human security in Africa’s most populous nation is worsening a deeper impairment, hollowing out Nigeria’s education system to create a “lost generation” of …

The upcoming U.N. border crossing vote comes at a time of significant humanitarian suffering across Syria. A crucial deadline that will determine the future of humanitarian aid to Syria looms this week, as the authorization for the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Turkey-Syria border expires on July 10. The crossing …

After Yugoslavia’s (Serbia) President Slobodan Milosevic refused to accept the so-called Rambouillet Agreement in 1999, which in reality was NATO ultimatum that demanded from Serbia and Montenegro to allow NATO troops to occupy the province of Kosovo as well as that NATO can build bases in Serbia, and that all …

Introduction On July 7, 2021 Iran hosted talks between the Afghan Government and Taliban (the Taliban delegation was led by Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai). The same day, the Taliban attacked the Badghis provincial capital Qalat-i-Naw. Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif emphatically stated that the Afghan people should decide their own …

Eine unabhängige Zentralbank darf sich nicht anmaßen, Politik in Feldern zu betreiben, die zum Terrain gewählter Politiker gehören. Mit ihrer neuen Strategie begibt sich die EZB in Gefahr, ihr Mandat zu überdehnen. Die Europäische Zentralbank hat ein seit ihrer Gründung unverändertes Mandat, das als vorrangiges Ziel die Sicherung der Preisstabilität …

According to an Israeli security research institute, the repeated failure to deter Hamas makes it necessary for Israel to occupy the Gaza Strip and overthrow the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement. According to Sama News Agency, in an article written by the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security’s Israeli security expert …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday that his country is present in Libya, Azerbaijan, Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean and will remain in these areas. This came in a speech delivered by Erdogan on Friday, during his inspection of the tank track factory in the north-western Turkish state …

Nearly 3.4 million Syrians are at risk of losing access to humanitarian aid facilitated through UN Security Council Resolution 2533, expiring on July 10. The Security Council will vote today on two resolutions to extend Syria’s cross-border aid, after deliberations over the number of approved border crossings, time frames, and …

The COVID-19 pandemic is still surging in many parts of the world, due primarily to slow vaccination rates and the spread of virulent variants. Espionage, particularly human intelligence (HUMINT), has been forced to adapt to a host of significant changes induced by the pandemic.