Viewpoint by Alon Ben-Meir Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a retired professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University (NYU). He taught courses on international negotiation and Middle Eastern studies for over 20 years. NEW YORK (IDN) — Given that Israel and Hamas collaborate both publicly and tacitly on multiple […]
Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Sinking the Congressional Dems—and Ukraine
Viewpoint by Jeffrey D. Sachs The proxy war between the U.S. and Russia is devastating Ukraine, ironically in the name of saving Ukraine. This article was published in Common Dreams and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK (IDN) — President Joe Biden is undermining his party’s Congressional prospects through a deeply flawed […]
Will Sunak as Prime Minister Halt Britain’s Slide into Chaos?
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — In a widely shared story earlier this month, The Economist likened the political carnage in Britain to the situation in Italy in the 1940s. Italy was a major theatre of the First World War at […]
Asia-Pacific: Using Space Applications for Sustainable Development
By Santo D. Banerjee BANGKOK (IDN) — Ministers and heads of national space agencies endorsed the Jakarta Ministerial Declaration on Space Applications for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific at the close of a high-level meeting co-organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Government […]
German Experts Study the Impact of Economic Sanctions Against Iran and Russia
By Jutta Wolf BERLIN (IDN) — Researchers at the Institute for World Economy IfW Kiel and DIW Berlin have analysed the economic impact of jointly implementing punitive measures in the context of the 2012 Iran and 2014 Russia sanctions. They find that coalitions serve two crucial purposes—they not only magnify the economic cost imposed on […]
Arms Control at Near-Standstill as Nuclear Threats Escalate
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — Amid growing nuclear threats from Russia and North Korea, the United Nations commemorated Disarmament Week beginning October 24, warning that weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons, continue to be of primary concern, owing to their destructive power and the threat that they pose to humanity. But […]
U.S. Sends Mixed Signals About the Use of Nuclear Weapons
By Daryl G. Kimball The writer has served as the executive director of the Arms Control Association since 2001 and has been a leading nongovernmental advocate for nuclear threat reduction and disarmament since 1989. In November 2021, he was invited to brief the Pentagon’s NPR Working Group. The following was published as Arms Control Association […]
COP27: First official Food and Agriculture Pavilion
Putting agrifood systems transformation at the heart of the COP27 By Jaya Ramachandran ROME (IDN) — For the first time, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), CGIAR and The Rockefeller Foundation will host the official Food and Agriculture Pavilion at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) taking place in Sharm El […]
Manipulations at ‘World Fellowship of Buddhists’ Conference
Buddhism Is Losing Its Voice in Asia By Krishan Dutta BANGKOK (IDN) — The theme of this year’s 30th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) was “Buddhism in the Time of Crisis”, but many disillusioned members of this premier Buddhist organization say it is the WFB that is in crisis. “The conference […]
And What If Saudi Arabia Were the Owner of Nuclear Missiles?
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — In any body politic there will be a group of powerful people who, if not in the inner circle of the president or prime minister, can win access to it at regular intervals. Security is their profession, and they can be met at discrete academic conferences where […]