Since the beginning of the year, the world had been witnessing exceptional developments as the pandemic casted its shadow on every aspect of human life, be it the transition to working from home, the closure of restaurants, cafes, or the lack of travelling and mobility across borders. In the United States, the retreat of normalcy...
متانة العلاقات لا تتأثر جذرياً باختلاف الإدارات العلاقات السعودية-الأمريكية من أمتن الشراكات التقليدية في الواقع السياسي الدولي منذ منتصف القرن الماضي. وكان ذلك هو الحال في ظل كل من الإدارات الجمهورية والديمقراطية المتعاقبة، إذ لم يؤثر اختلاف الإدارات في الصورة الكبيرة لهذه الشراكة. وكذلك هو الحال حالياً إذ لا يمكن أن تتأثر في إجمالها الشراكة...
Amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic taking over the world and paralyzing most of world diplomacy or at least making it virtual or minimal, The US made a major diplomatic move. It offered to lift crippling sanctions against Venezuela if the incumbent left-wing president Nicolas Maduroagreed to step down from power while a transitional council would govern until fresh elections.According to that blueprint, both Maduro...
In our age of unprecedented information accessibility, information consumption had undoubtedly and tremendously surged. And quite normally that state of information exposure and consumption is especially true in times of great uncertainty like the times we are in at the moment because of the pandemic, coronavirus. However, and despite of the aforementioned unprecedentedness, most of...
Amid an overwhelming international flood of news emerging from capitals of the world’s biggest powers like Paris, Berlin, Washington and Moscow as well as from capitals of the global south, all announcing nation-wide lockdowns and declaring emergency in the fight against coronavirus, the UK is till the moment sticking to its controversial response to the...
In this year’s Iranian parliamentary elections, that took place in February and resulted in the victory of the hard-liners, the voter turnout was 42.6% (the lowest since the 1979 revolution with the rate as little as about 25% in the capital). This record low rate was a normal prognosis of the current political setting in Iran. First, there is a big...
In 2016 oxford dictionary had chosen the word post-truth as the word of the year. That move was quite understandable given that post-truth was the buzzword of the international political community at that time, with Brexit referendum and the rise of trump. In 2016 it was spectacular how post-truth became one of the most useful...
The term American exceptionalism had surfaced and re-surfaced frequently in political debates about the American politics. Notwithstanding varying definitions and conceptualization it had a constant component of it that it referred to the exceptionalism of the American case vis-vis other nations. However, America under trump has a different form of that exceptionalism however, vis-à-vis America...
Throughout the history of the American mediation in peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the United States had often leaned in one way or another towards Israel’s wants at the expense of the Palestinian side. Because of the world’s current political reality, the Palestinians had long accepted this playbook with a grain of...
Currently there are two statemen claiming to be the legitimate president of Venezuela, each with his distinctive arsenal of domestic as well as international support and recognition. On the one hand, there is the incumbent president Nicolás Maduro, clinging to power after a widely disputed presidential elections in 2018. He ruled since 2013 as the...
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