Pakistan Can’t Export Rocks Forever
Pakistan does not have many painless economic choices left. Years of debt pressure, weak investment and recurring balance-of-payments stress...
“The Horror! The Horror!” Colonial Nostalgia and Aryan Reliability
Under US President Donald Trump, the United States has now become an engine for the promulgation of white nationalism. Not since the 1930s has such an ideology, which exalts those ethnic groups it codes as “white,” while denigrating all others
Rebalancing Power in Global Health: The End Of Donor-Driven...
The year 2025 will be remembered as the moment global health’s foundations shifted beneath our feet. Funding collapsed to...
The Coming of Age of Seniors
Hollywood has a genre called “coming of age” movies, the iconic phenomenon where a teenager loses their virginity, gains...
A 500-Megawatt Test of Credibility in Indonesia’s Energy Transition
Indonesia’s energy transition has a financing problem disguised as a policy problem. The country has pledged to peak emissions,...
Soft Power, Hard Fall: From Marshall Plan to Wrecking...
Has anyone bothered to notice that the famous “clash of civilizations” Samuel Huntington predicted three decades ago is now...
How Transnational Repression Tests European Democracies
The contemporary rise of transnational repression has exposed a structural paradox in liberal democracies. Authoritarian regimes increasingly exert coercive...
FO Talks: Is Europe’s Strategic Amnesia Driving the World...
Fair Observer’s Chief Strategy Officer Peter Isackson speaks with historian Édouard Husson about the geopolitical implications of the Ukraine...
Cold War II Has No Script — Part 1
In 2020, the historian Niall Ferguson claimed that “now we are in Cold War II. This new Cold War...
The Sclerosis in Defense Procurement: The Crisis in the...
The Indian Air Force (IAF) serves as the sentinel of India’s airspace, responsible for securing a battlespace that is...
