The Dirty War on Syria: No Popular Uprising
By Tim Anderson
The world has been deceived over the conflict in Syria. It was always a ‘regime change’ dirty war and never a popular...
A Disunited United States: What the 2016 Election Says About America
By Leonard Steinhorn
The 2016 election may be focused on the rise of Donald Trump, but the Trump candidacy is possible only because America is...
The Keys to the White House: Forecast for 2016
By Allan J. Lichtman
The Keys to the White House, a prediction system that correctly forecasted the outcomes of all eight presidential elections since 1984...
America’s Never-Ending War in the Middle East
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
While President Obama continues – at least for now – to resist redeploying large numbers of U.S. soldiers...
The New Scramble for Africa
By Pádraig Carmody
Something has certainly changed in the intervening years in Africa, and in its relations with the outside world, even if excessive pessimism...
Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State
By Alexander Etkind
Due to Russia’s geographic scale and military might, it amplifies typical problems of many petrostates from Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran....
Refugees and Refugee Crises: Some Historical Reflections
By Peter Gatrell
The current Syrian refugee crisis provides an opportunity to look beyond the headlines and to locate it in a broader historical context....
Can Think Tanks Influence Public Opinion and Improve Policy?
By Andrew Selee
Think tanks have sprung up throughout the world, trying to generate ideas and analysis that can be useful in public debate and...
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
By Oliver P. Richmond Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding.
Duterte’s Global Impact
From the Editors
On 1st July 2016, Rodrigo Duterte will begin his term as the President of the Republic of the Philippines.
Mr Duterte has formidable...
