Since the beginning of this century, triggered by the US’s illegal invasion of Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan, and aided by the arrival of the turbo-charged digital age, there has been a ...
“Why write a book about turbans?” ask Chris Filstrup and Jane Merrill, the authors of “The Turban: A History From East to West.” Their answer is somewhat lame: “There are no books on the headdress, at ...
Asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhi is said to have quipped that such a thing “would be a good idea”. (The West, he suggested, was not so enlightened.) But as Josephine Quinn ...
Washington has spent the better part of two years painstakingly building support for the U.S.-led international order after Russia flagrantly violated international law when it launched a full-scale ...
The first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, proclaimed after his country’s independence, “We face neither East nor West: we face forward.” The recent GLOBSEC Forum in Prague brought together a ...
NEW DELHI, India—The growing convergence between the U.S. under President Donald Trump and Russia under President Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine is catalyzing two opposite views among ...