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Nepal’s $5 billion reconstruction bill exposes a wider economic failure: when governments repeatedly restore vulnerable assets instead of investing in resilience, natural hazards become recurring fiscal shocks. Nepal needs $4... Read More

As the Houthis target Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure, the widening West Asia conflict raises fresh concerns over global oil supplies and India’s economy. As President Donald Trump struggles to extricate... Read More

Part 2: Seven decades after the Suez crisis, Britain’s relentless prime ministerial churn reflects a nation still searching for a durable post-imperial settlement. Anthony Eden with Gamal Abdel Nasser If... Read More

Part 1: Why do British Prime Ministers seem to fall with such relentless regularity? In a two-part series, we examine the deeper historical forces that have made modern Britain increasingly... Read More

Xi Jinping’s invocation of the ‘Thucydides Trap’ revives the long shadow of the Peloponnesian War and asks whether America and China are repeating history’s oldest great-power mistakes. AI generated image... Read More

Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem On April 11, 1961, in a converted cultural hall called Beit Ha’am in Jerusalem, the world witnessed an extraordinary reckoning with one of... Read More

The ongoing Iran conflict is a systemic shock that exposes how fragile the world economy becomes when chokepoints close and diplomacy fails. “Arthasya mūlam karma,” wrote Kautilya, wealth is the... Read More

From the Øresund to the Dardanelles, chokepoints have imposed prolonged conflict and heavy costs on those who seek to command them. Gallipoli landings, 1915. With Washington mired in a strategic... Read More

From dealmaker to belligerent, America’s President risks repeating the history he once sought to escape. In 1917, Woodrow Wilson, a scholar-president wary of foreign entanglements, found himself drawn into a... Read More

A child fills a metal container from a deceptively clean water source. But the water carries heavy metals leached from shattered piping and chemical residues from a bombardment that occurred... Read More