The decline in trust in political institutions and its rise in trust toward populist politicians in recent years may have economic causes, among other things: global economic growth no longer automatically translates into middle-class prosperity. For millennials and zoomers, social mobility hasn’t simply slowed—it’s stalled at the lower levels: in …

The US, the European Union, and the UK face two major challenges when imposing sanctions on Russian military production. First, it’s not always clear which products are being imported specifically for the military. Second, a sanctioned company quickly grows into a new one, and the military-industrial complex struggles to adapt …

From Red Sea security to BRICS solidarity, a wider Middle East war would stress-test the continent’s fragile supply chains and geopolitical alliances, and put South Africa’s Iran links under a microscope. Here are five risks to watch. As US warships mass off the Iranian coast and Western allies scramble to …

This will one day link with the existing “military Schengen” between the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, which Belgium and France plan to join, for creating a contiguous zone of free military movement between the Pyrenees and the approach to St. Petersburg. The Baltic States’ Defense Ministers signed a statement of …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched an ambitious diplomatic offensive aimed at unifying the Sunni world under Ankara’s leadership. The objective is not merely reconciliation with former rivals. It is the construction of a Sunni diplomatic and strategic “wall,” or “noose,” around Israel, replacing the Iranian “Shi’ite crescent” with …

La racine du mal tient à l’attitude des extrémistes de droite en Ukraine, et c’est pourquoi la paix ne sera possible qu’avec un autre gouvernement ukrainien. Ces derniers jours, les soi-disant négociations de paix ont repris, cette fois à Genève, en Suisse. Les attaques intensifiées, presque systématiques, menées principalement à …

Sans même prendre en compte tout ce qui concerne le groupe naval des États-Unis, se dirigeant quelque part vers l’Iran, observant ce qui se passe dans les airs, peuvent conclure que tout ce qui se passe fait partie d’une action qui ne peut pas encore être clairement définie : s’agira-t-il …

The leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, said in a speech on the occasion of World Mother Language Day that “the Republican Decree on the recognition of the Kurdish language as a national language in Syria is an achievement and a big and positive step, but it …

On Saturday, February 22, the Islamic State claimed the death of three members of the Syrian Defense Ministry in northeastern Syria, two days after it claimed responsibility for another attack in Deir ez-Zor province. The organization said in a statement published through the agency “Dabiq” affiliated to it, that it …

Armenia might defect from the CSTO while Turkish and NATO influence could surge all along Russia’s southern periphery, which might embolden Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to defy Iran and Russia by building the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline if the West promises them Ukrainian-like military support. The American, Armenian, and Azerbaijani leaders jointly …