The world economy has perceived notable global changes in the share of output in the last few decades. The increasing role of emerging market economies (EMEs) such as China and India as the engine of global growth has marked a shift in economic power away from Western European countries, The United States and Japan. For instance, The United States and…

While various Silk Roads are being laid down by China for a “Greater Eurasia” economic integration, it is time to look beyond infrastructure, trade and economics. A lasting foundation must be buttressed by the building blocks of tomorrow, especially in science, technology and innovation (STI).
 
With the world likely entering a…

When the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) opened in Paris on 30 November newspaper headlines were hyping up the importance of the meeting presenting it as the last 'now or never' opportunity. World leaders were proclaiming their commitment to a cleaner future, diplomats were sharpening their pencils before two weeks of…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/opinion/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-russia.html
 
According to Gleb Pavlovsky, the Kremlin is "still enigmatic, but no longer strategic." Kremlin policy is now "fashioned rather like the music of a jazz group; its continuing improvisation is an attempt to survive the latest crisis."…

 Friend of President el Sisi and prominent opinion-maker Osama Kamal of the popular Cairo program, 360, interviewed Dr. Jiri Valenta on January 22, 2016. They covered a range of subjects including the Iran nuclear deal, the war in Syria and Russia’s intervention, the war against ISIS, and Valenta’s proposal that President el Sisi…

President Barack Obama, seeking to shape his legacy, said that COP 21 makes the United States, which did not ratify the earlier Kyoto Protocol, “the world leader in fighting climate change.”
 
But Obama will not be around to lead the COP 21 fight, which is not scheduled to start until 2020. By that time  another U.S. president…

           Romanian new leadership have not succeeded (one may think they lack the will) to impose intrinsically new directions on our foreign policy. The causes may be seen both personal, determined by the nature of those responsible, but also constitutional, influenced by the relations between the state institutions…

Will the war against Islamic State stimulate Russian — Euro-Atlantic Relations? The relations between Russia and the West have worsened due to the confrontation on the Southeast Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Consequent sanctions imposed on Russia by the West could have resulted in the next ‘cold war’. However, In…

EXPLANATION OF 13 HOURS STORY   By Jiri and Leni Friedman Valenta,  January 16, 2015 

Several hours before the Democratic Party debate between Hillary Clinton and surging Bernie Sanders, and two weeks before the primaries, the Teheran mullahs have tried to help not just Obama, but Hillary by releasing our…

People claiming that the withdrawal from Iraq of U.S. forces carried out by the Obama Administration from 2010-2011 explains the rise of the terrorist group ISIS have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.  A simple look at the timeline, geography, facts, context, and history concerning the withdrawal and the rise of ISIS makes…

 Extremely painful for every patriotic American, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Muslims or Agnostic in 1978-81, was viewing U.S. hostages of Iran marching with their hands on their heads.  Teaching at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA at that time, I recall the horrific pain of my officers while watching their agonized…

(Taken from 'The Atlantic' with only aim to warn the world about the deadliest disease on Earth)     What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published…