Shoumojit Banerjee

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 the darkest chapters of the 20th century - the Holocaust, in which six million European Jews were systematically murdered under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. Sitting behind a bulletproof glass booth was Adolf Eichmann, a senior SS officer who had served as head of Jewish affairs in the Nazi security apparatus and...

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 cul-de-sac in Iran with no evident off-ramp, there has been frenzied speculation in the past few days of President Donald Trump and the Pentagon mulling weeks-long ground operations, including raids on Kharg Island and Iranian coastal positions abutting the Strait of Hormuz. Kharg, lying some 650...

The ongoing Iran war has unleashed one of the most severe energy shocks in decades. Our five-part series explores decisive moments when turmoil in the energy world changed the trajectory of geopolitics. Barrels and Power - Part 5   Before striking Iran, Donald Trump shocked the world when American forces struck Caracas, captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and spirited him out of the country. Within hours, Trump went further when he declared he would “run” Venezuela while American oil...