John Bell reflects on how ignoring innate needs has crippled his homeland, and on how it could recover.
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Pierre Vimont, a Senior Fellow at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tells us what global geopolitics might look like in a post-pandemic world?
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The Covid-19 pandemic and the virtual technologies that we have come to reply upon have had a tangible impact on the work of diplomats—and on diplomacy itself.
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Having a strong political opinion and cheering for a leader may both feel virtuous, but they may also represent error and misjudgement, if unexamined.
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The rigid polarization we see today in politics is a reflection of a win/lose style of thinking that has to change if societies are to thrive.
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Political parties are formulas to bind groups together towards an objective, but they are also exercises in static and fixed thinking.
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Mutual needs satisfaction, based on a fundamental understanding of our innate needs and resources, is the means of achieving sustainable peace in politics
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Ibn Khaldun, a 14th century Arab historian, wrote that most understanding of politics and history is a result of bias, whereas more permanent and accurate laws lie beyond that.
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Former Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmy shares his views on the state of the Arab World and what is needed for its societies to thrive.
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Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy talks about the craft of diplomacy and how it has been impacted by the complexities of the digital age.
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Many are wondering whether the global COVID-19 crisis is the harbinger of greater global cooperation or a confirmation of our more 'selfish selves.'
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Caroline Brooks, a senior program manager with the peace building organization International Alert, writes about what it means to put humanity into politics.
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