The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as One Belt One Road, was launched in 2013 under China’s President Xi Jinping. It is a global infrastructure project intended to link China with countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe...

The Kurds are the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they do not possess a sovereign state of their own. This fact highlights that conflict along Turkey’s borders with Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Armenia — where 25-35 million Kurds are settled — seems inevitable...

Digital technology has transformed every sector globally, including public service and government administration. Countries are now seeking to utilize technology to solve challenges in...

While the first diplomatic negotiations between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June 2018 suggested positive developments, the second summit in Hanoi in late February 2019 is considered a failure. The governments in Washington, D.C. and Pyongyang are currently in a deadlock...

By the year 2020, the Chinese government will have installed a national social credit system that will influence the lives of 1.4 billion people. China will give its citizens a financial credit status that is linked to every aspect of their social life...

Indonesia successfully conducted the world's biggest one-day election on April 17, 2019. The election involved...

The weekend of April 12-14 marked the World Bank and International Monetary Funds’ Spring meeting on the global economic agenda. The spring meeting this year brought together ministers of finance from...

The latest installment of the India-Pakistan crisis was precipitated by the February 14 terror attack in Pulwama, Indian-controlled Kashmir. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a Pakistan-based terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attack...

Ever since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, President Donald Trump has fueled a global circulation of the buzzword ‘fake news’. While his understanding of the term connotes...

Qatar announced in December 2018 that it would be renouncing its membership from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in order to focus more on its exports of natural gas. This move has made Qatar the first Arab country to exit OPEC since the organization’s founding in 1960...