As the House opens public impeachment hearings into the Ukraine scandal, the bottom-line question is dead simple: Did President Donald Trump, for political...
Two months ago, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his fear that a “great fracture”...
Most discussions of trade nowadays inevitably feature the words “war,” “tariff” or “Trump.”
NEW YORK: There is now a growing consensus that American democracy needs to be saved by Mark Zuckerberg.
Instead of being focused on the country he represents as its top diplomat, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil seemed to be more concentrated on another...
Syndicates controlling three vital sectors of the Lebanese economy - fuel, flour and medicine - are behaving like cartels and holding the country to ransom.
President Donald Trump last week seemed to be nearing a preliminary truce in his trade war with China.
The aftershocks of U.S. President Donald Trump’s abandonment of the Kurds in Syria are rumbling through the region, and a string of Lebanese officials told me...
Because it poses an existential threat to humanity, climate change represents the bad kind of disruption.
The worst foreign policy decision by the United States of the last generation - and perhaps longer - was the “war of choice” that it launched in Iraq in 2003...
Governments from around the world are already preparing for the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming,...
The Kremlin is on a roll.
In the face of global outrage at the low or no taxes paid by some of the world’s largest multinationals, the Group of 20 appointed the Organization for...
Since the investigation began into President Donald Trump’s machinations in Ukraine, one of the most disturbing questions has been: Where’s Mike Pompeo, the...
We are currently living through the most dramatic technological and economic transformation in the history of mankind.
International-relations theorists generally distinguish between soft and hard power.
Huge amounts of time, effort and frustration have gone into negotiating the terms of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.
At the end of the Cold War, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called “The End of History?”
For many of my Lebanese compatriots, the bombshell recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the U.S. House of Representatives last week, by an overwhelming...
As in 1848, 1968, 1989 and 2010-2012, a wave of popular protests has taken the world by surprise. Ongoing mass revolts - in Beirut, Santiago, Hong Kong,...
“We’re going in” roared the front page of British tabloid The Daily Sketch, 63 years ago this month.
The Libra Association is fragmenting.
Has there ever been a foreign policy move that has produced more crises more quickly?
For the first time, reasonable people in the United States have begun to speculate that President Donald Trump could be convicted by the Senate and thus...
Few countries have such a fundamental interest in addressing climate change as Australia.
The Chinese folk saying “lift a rock only to drop it on one’s own feet,” or its English equivalent - “to shoot oneself in the foot” - perfectly describes the...
Few issues have generated as much public interest in recent years as food loss and waste, widely agreed to be a moral and technical failure in a world where...
Artificial intelligence is all around us, generating excitement about how it could increase prosperity and transform our lives in multiple ways.
At last month’s United Nations summit on the Sustainable Development Goals, child marriage did not get top billing.