One reason for the failure to stop money laundering is that politicians love new policy announcements, but shun enforcing old ...

In recent years, Western countries have been very reliant on sanctions as a tool of foreign policy and I think it’s a mistake ...

The White House snubs Georgia, seeks dividends in Armenia and Azerbaijan while undermining Russia in its backyard.

On January 25, Myanmar’s military junta will hold the third round of what it calls an election in the middle of an ongoing civil war. “The election is a farce and everyone knows it,” says Meredith ...

There was nothing special about the scenes from Edmonton: orderly lines of people in winter coats snaking across a snowy park, bare trees stark against a pale winter sky, the mundane choreography of ...

It’s an accepted truth in much of the English-speaking world that the European Union is sclerotic, sluggish and weighed down by bureaucracy. Now that may or may not be true in the formal economy, but ...

Laura Cappon is an award-winning Italian journalist. In 2011, she moved to Cairo where for four years she reported on events following the Egyptian revolution. She has also worked in Tunisia, Lebanon, ...