Antara Haldar
advocates a radical rethink of development, explains what went right at the recent AI Safety Summit, highlights the economics discipline’s shortcomings, and more.
The prevailing narrative that frames Israel as a colonial power suppressing Palestinians’ struggle for statehood grossly oversimplifies a complicated conflict and inadvertently vindicates the region’s most oppressive regimes. Achieving a durable, lasting peace requires moving beyond such facile analogies.
rejects the facile moralism of those who view the ongoing war through the narrow lens of decolonization.
The far-right populist Geert Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands reflects the same sentiment that powered Brexit and Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016. But such outcomes could not happen without the cynicism displayed over the past few decades by traditional conservative parties.
shows what Geert Wilders has in common with other ultra-nationalist politicians, past and present.
伊斯坦布尔—中东的冲突不仅威胁着该地区诸多国家的安全,也威胁着它们的生存。叙利亚、伊拉克、黎巴嫩和其他国家目前无不保守宗派之争困扰,有可能依民族分裂为多个小国,改变这个政治地理形成于近一百年前的地区。
土耳其总理埃尔多安在论述地区现状时提出了一个大胆的计划,欲强化土耳其的地区地位并扩大其在国内的政治主导力。埃尔多安即将面临他自己制定的三个总理任期时限,他想修改土耳其宪法,引入总统制——由他自己领导第一任内阁,获得远比现在更大的权力。
然而,埃尔多安的计划取决于中止土耳其与其国内库尔德人的30年冲突史。因此,埃尔多安政府决定与被囚的库尔德工党(Kurdish Worker’s Party,PKK,库尔德人武装反抗运动)领袖奥贾兰(Abdullah Ocalan)谈判。
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