The cold war is back
Oct 12,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Joschka Fischer BERLIN — Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is an attempt to turn back the clock to a time when Russia was a […]
The end of stability
Sep 01,2022 – JORDAN TIMES Joschka Fischer BERLIN — The world is reeling from an extraordinary confluence of crises, including Russia’s war of aggression in Europe, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, […]
How the US could lose the new cold war
Jun 20,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK — The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia. And US […]
Who makes the rules in the age of unpeace?
May 13,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Mark Leonard Mark Leonard Say More… Project Syndicate (PS): In December, you predicted that the “defining fights of the twenty-first century will be about […]
Events that shape our lives
Feb 14,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby In his ground-breaking 2008 book, “The Way We’ll Be”, my brother John used decades of polling to observe and define the […]
Southeast Asia’s new-old cold war
Feb 13,2022 – JORDAN TIMES ‘ Thitinan Pongsudhirak BANGKOK — Few parts of the world paid as high a cost during the Cold War as Southeast Asia. The superpower conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union divided the region into pro- and anti-communist camps, spawning five wars in […]
America’s ‘Suez moment’: Another strategic mistake would be its last
David Hearst 27 December 2021 President Joe Biden truly reaped a bitter harvest from the strategic foreign policy errors of four of his predecessors. But Washington would do well to […]
US-China rivalry forcing Arab Gulf states to make impossible choices, UAE’s Anwar Gargash tells World Policy Conference
Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s presidential diplomatic adviser and former minister of state for foreign affairs, was speaking at the World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi. (Screenshot) Short Url https://arab.news/ynpfr China […]
What could cause a US-China war?
Mar 09,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – JOSEPH S NIE CAMBRIDGE — When China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a […]
30 years post-Cold War, Turkey tries to strike balance with US, Russia
BY ŞEYMA NAZLI GÜRBÜZ İSTANBUL NEWS ANALYSIS JAN 03 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Sept. 16, 2019. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images) The S-400 crisis […]
The UK and US are starting a new Cold War with Russia and China – so what are these governments trying to hide?
It is just possible to forget amid the threats and counter-threats – and the intention is certainly that we should forget – that the world is failing to contain a […]
A view from Turkey: Destructive power of the West
İHSAN AKTAŞ @ihsanaktas Published January 25, 2019 Until the end of the Cold War, there had apparently been a critique of Western civilization. Although the controversy between the Western and […]
A second great recession?
Sep 27,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Gwynne Dyer Ten years ago this month, the financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, triggering the 2008 crash and the subsequent […]
Spread of Wahhabism was done at request of West during Cold War – Saudi crown prince
Published time: 28 Mar, 2018 11:58 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. © Hamad I Mohammed / Reuters The Saudi-funded spread of Wahhabism began as a result of Western countries […]
Trump’s gambling problem
Aug 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Nina L. Khrushcheva NEW YORK — At a summit with US President Donald Trump in Helsinki last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin proved that […]
Russian lawmakers submit bill to freeze cooperation with US
ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW A view shows the river port of Rostov-On-Don, Russia October 19, 2016. (Reuters Photo) Russian lawmakers have submitted a wide-ranging bill that could freeze crucial exports […]
‘The Cold War is back with a vengeance,’ warns UN chief Guterres
DAILY SABAH WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS ISTANBUL United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., April […]
The West’s unilateral Cold War
Mar 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Sergei Karaganov MOSCOW — Rising tensions between the United Kingdom and Russia are but further proof that Russia and the West, according to no […]
Pakistan’s critical role in the New Cold War
M. K. Bhadrakumar – February 23, 2018 1.8k SHARES ShareTweetPrintMail M K Bhadrakumar | Afghanistan, no doubt, was what brought Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif to Moscow on a ‘working […]
Inside Switzerland’s largest nuclear bunker – 40 years on
Designed to house 20,000 people, the bunker was built in and over two motorway tunnels. Photo: Unterirdisch Ueberleben Published: 20 Oct 2016 Opened 40 years ago at the height of the Cold War, the Sonnenberg bunker in Lucerne was one of the largest public fallout shelters in the world and […]