ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Berhanu Anteneh In the months since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November, policymakers in Beijing have been looking to the next four years of U.S.-Chinese relations with trepidation. Beijing has been expecting the Trump administration to pursue tough policies toward China, potentially escalating the two countries’ trade war, tech war, and confrontation over Taiwan. …
The Middle East that U.S. President Donald Trump faces today features dangers and opportunities that were not present when he first took office, eight years ago. The greatest dangers are Iran’s advances toward nuclear weapons and the close relationships that the Islamic Republic has forged with Russia and China. The best opportunities have emerged from …
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has been cast by many observers as the end of an era. The U.S.-led order, variously described as the rules-based order or the liberal international order, which rose to its feet after World War II and strode triumphantly around the world after the end of the …
Just a few weeks ago, the greatest threat to U.S. government computer systems seemed to be that hostile foreign powers could break into them and steal data. In late December, Treasury Department officials sent a letter to members of Congress reporting that a Chinese group had hacked their systems and stolen unclassified documents. The department …
The Mystery of the U.S. Economy: One of the great mysteries of our time seems to be why the U.S. economy is so good. An article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in early 1997 summed it up nicely: “Pinch me,” the reporter wrote. “A lot of good things are inexplicably happening. …
War is in the air more than peace these days. This reflects not only the salience of well-known strategic traps, but also the rapid emergence of cloud capital, which is in steering the world into these traps in four distinct ways. ATHENS – The West is on a war footing. The German government is working …
Though Donald Trump attracted more support than ever from working-class voters in the 2024 US presidential election, he has long embraced an agenda that benefits the wealthiest Americans above all. During his second term, however, Trump seems committed not just to serving America’s ultra-rich, but to letting them wield state power themselves. Read More
The Ethiopia Peace Observatory (EPO) enhances the collection of local conflict and protest data across Ethiopia. EPO data is collected through ACLED and sourced in English, Amharic, Afan Oromo, and Tigrinya. The ACLED-EPO dataset contains thousands of historical data points drawn from local, national, and international sources, with new real-time data added each week. The EPO regularly …
A protest in Berlin on 2nd February against any collaboration between mainstream political parties and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Image: Sipa US / Alamy. German election campaigns usually have a sense of quiet inevitability about them. Accurate polls long in advance give a good idea of who will be chancellor, and with which …