With New START expired, stability depends less on transparency and more on disciplined ambiguity in managing nuclear uncertainty.
Sovereignty is a performance-based contract, not an unconditional inheritance. This does not mandate intervention. It ...
Calibrated steadying mechanisms — rather than diplomatic breakthroughs — offer the most realistic path forward for managing ...
In contemporary South Asian crises, velocity matters more than military power. Velocity means how fast responsibility is assigned, actions are authorized, ...
This vision dovetails with Egypt’s recent posture, which has articulated with unusual clarity an Arab strategy aimed at ...
Oracle-based quantum algorithms cannot use deep loops because quantum states exist only as mathematical amplitudes in Hilbert space with no physical substrate. Criticall ...
An AI agent is software that can plan, decide, and take actions across tools. Instead of only answering questions, it can open tickets, update a CRM, request ...
The Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP), established in 1999, is a comprehensive and in-depth assessment of a country’s financial sector. FSAPs in advanced economies are conducted by the IMF ...
In its confrontation with Tehran, Washington faces a fundamental choice: should it seek to change the Iranian regime itself, or focus on altering the regime’s behavior while preserving regional ...
Saudi Arabia today faces a delicate but navigable equation: preserving its internal modernization project while maintaining the kind of unambiguous external posture that reassures regional partners, ...
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When the rule of law meets political pressure

For most Americans, the phrase "rule of law" sounds like a civic virtue-important, but abstract. Yet in a functioning democracy, the rule of law is not a slogan. It is an operating system. It ...
About two years ago, I started experiencing constant vertigo. I was plagued by an internal sense of rocking and swaying, trouble sitting or standing with my eyes closed, and a fear of walking. Several ...