Arquivos de 14 out 2025

The strategic logic of foreign aid.

How Technology Is—and Isn’t—Changing the Global Economy

Donald Trump has Pyongyang on his mind. In recent months, the U.S. president has made comments to the media suggesting he is in communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In an August 17 Truth Social post, for instance, Trump announced that the United States would scale back joint military drills with South Korea. […]

Fifteen years ago, protests erupted across the Middle East and North Africa as people took to the streets, demonstrating their dissatisfaction with the existing political systems and demanding regime change in what became known as the Arab Spring. Researchers and international observers expressed optimism and praised its transformative potential. However, what followed was far from […]

The anniversary summit in Bishkek proved to be one of the most substantive in the history of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The organisation gained new security institutions, an updated Charter, and an expanded economic agenda. The primary task now is implementation. The role the SCO will play in Eurasia in the coming years depends […]

For Pakistan, the question is not whether it should involve itself in the Middle East. Energy dependence, remittances, geography, defence relationships and domestic security have largely made that decision for it. Nor is neutrality, in its older sense, entirely available. The harder question is whether Pakistan can remain connected without becoming entrapped, Javairyah Aatif writes.