By: Joseph E. Stiglitz For better or worse, economic-policy debates in the United States are often echoed elsewhere, regardless of whether they are relevant. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s recently elected government provides a case in point. As in many

By: Neil Berry The phenomenon of young UK Muslim men fleeing their homes to go and wage jihad in Syria is impinging sharply on British national consciousness. Millions of television viewers have seen an ISIL recruitment video featuring young British

By: Sabria S. Jawhar As we witness a surge in young Saudi men and women obtaining free university education abroad thanks to the King Abdullah Scholarship Program, we should also be mindful that not all young people in Saudi households

By: Ahmed Al-Jarallah AFTER witnessing chaos in the last three years, Egypt needs true leadership to move towards security and stability while removing the ‘phantom’ of collapse. This is exactly what President Abdulfattah El-Sisi achieved when he obtained support of

By: Kofi Annan A recent estimate by the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics that the market for illegal drugs adds $7.6 billion annually to the country’s economy gives a sense of the astonishing scale of the illicit narcotics trade.

By: Abdulateef Al-Mulhim One of the members of the GCC, Kuwait is smaller than the size of New Jersey, US. With a total population of about four million — only 50 percent of which are Kuwaitis — the total area

By: Osama Al Sharif It is difficult to understand the strategy of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, if he has any, following the brutal murder of an Arab youth in occupied Jerusalem last week, apparently by a group of radical Jews.

By: Bikram Vohra On June 12, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped while hitchhiking in the West Bank. This was widely reported and generally condemned. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the kidnapping on Hamas — a move probably aimed at hurting

By: Yoon Young-kwan A vast revolution in military affairs is taking place across East Asia. The latest signs are Chinese President Xi Jinping’s purge of Gen. Xu Caihou, an ex-Politburo member and former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, on

By: Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi The recent terror attack on the Yemeni-Saudi border has highlighted yet again that the country is a target because of its powerful economy and strategic position in the Middle East, but also that terrorists are exploiting

By: Octavia Nasr What if instead of celebrating independence or a national day, and instead of military parades and proud displays of national colors on hats, shirts, bathing suits and flip flops, we pause and reflect on whether we are

By: Mansoor Jafar After an aborted foreign invasion by the then USSR and later, destructive attacks on Afghanistan by the United States, Kabul finally chanced upon what political pundits termed a “good day” in its history when a foreign qualified

By: Abdulrahman al-Rashed Until a few weeks ago, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was only known in some areas of Syria. But today, the entire world is in a state of alert due to the threats posed

By: Eli Lake Team Obama was told, over and over, that the Iraqi army couldn’t stop a terror group that was ready to pounce. But Washington was a prisoner to its paradox of an Iraq policy. On November 1, 2013,