By Jovanni Reyes* The archipelago of Puerto Rico is the oldest continuous colony in the world. Ever since Columbus set foot on what’s believed to have been the northwest coastline of Bo...
By Alexander Atanasov* Recently, I took a walk on an Egyptian beach. I overheard a conversation between a middle-aged Russian woman and two other slightly younger Russians. What the woman said...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/13102022-the-worst-case-scenario-in-russia-oped/
By Alec Dubro* In early March, Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron that his invasion of Ukraine was “going according to plan,” and that its goals would be “fulfilled.”...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/09092022-russia-faces-dissent-in-the-military-oped/
By Patrick Peralta* In the hills of Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines, a massive head hovers above the trees. Carved on the side of Mount Pugo, La Union, the 30-meter concrete bust...
By Kevin Funk* In separate votes in October 2020 and May 2021, Chileans went to the polls and delivered three resounding defeats to the country’s political establishment. First, nearly 80 ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/30112021-chile-at-the-crossroads-between-reform-and-reaction-oped/
By John Sifton* Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation is spiraling into catastrophe. Millions of Afghans are now facing severe economic stress and food insecurity in the wake of the Taliban...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/07102021-afghanistan-averting-economic-and-food-crises-oped/
By Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung* President Biden’s first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any reasonable standard. At more than $750 billion for ...
By Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores* With his wide-brimmed peasant hat and oversized teacher’s pencil held high, Peru’s Pedro Castillo has been traveling the country exhorting voters to...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/12062021-a-new-chapter-in-perus-history-oped/
IS THE GROWING COOPERATION BETWEEN THE LABOR PARTY AND THE GREENLEFT IN THE NETHERLANDS A MODEL THAT THE EUROPEAN LEFT CAN FOLLOW? By Mira Oklobdzija* After the last Dutch elections, which wa...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/12052021-can-the-dutch-mix-red-and-green-oped/
By Shubh Mathur* India’s dramatic decline from a shaky but functional democracy into an authoritarian dictatorship under the hard-right Hindu nationalist BJP is nearly complete. But deepl...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/14042021-us-choosing-wrong-side-in-india-oped/
By Aleksandra Babovic and Arbenita Sopaj* Japanese academics and diplomats see the crisis in Myanmar as a golden opportunity for Japan to take initiative through proactive leadership within the...
By Inge Fryklund* We are torn by images of unaccompanied minors and overcrowded facilities at our southern border, but few in the United States are asking why so many Central American families...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/01042021-the-us-war-on-drugs-is-driving-the-displacement-crisis-oped/
By Conn Hallinan* In the aftermath of the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, drone warfare is being touted as the latest breakthrough in military techn...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/14032021-we-need-an-international-convention-on-drones-oped/
By Ashik Siddique* The first month of the Biden presidency was a flurry of climate action, sweeping away the openly denialist intransigence of the Trump administration. After re-entering t...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/23022021-could-bidens-climate-policy-invite-more-militarism-analysis/
By Conn Hallinan* President Joe Biden’s administration faces a host of difficult problems, but in foreign policy its thorniest will be its relations with the People’s Republic of China. ...
By Kerri Kennedy* I have spent my entire career working to end conflicts, mostly overseas. Unfortunately, in light of this month’s insurrection and the ongoing threat of violence, my experie...
By Mira Oklobdzija* In a tweet on October 23, 2020, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša wrote: “We respect difficult, tragic personal life of Joe Biden and some of his political achievemen...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/18012021-the-trump-of-slovenia-oped/
Each year Foreign Policy In Focus columnist Conn Hallinan gives awards to individuals, companies, and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure. These are the awards for the past y...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/14012021-the-are-you-serious-awards-looking-back-on-2020-oped/
By Conn Hallinan* When President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 21, he will be faced with some very expensive problems, from bailing out the COVID-19 economy to getting a handle on cl...
By Conn Hallinan* During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD), a mysterious plague spread out of the Nile Valley to Constantinople and finished off the Roman Empire. Appearing fir...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/19092020-the-pandemic-and-oil-oped/
By Deborah Brown* Billions of people around the world have come to rely on the services Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google provide to exercise their basic human rights. But for many people, b...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/07092020-big-techs-heavy-hand-around-the-globe-oped/
By Conn Hallinan* From 1830 to 1895, the British and Russian empires schemed and plotted over control of Central and South Asia. At the heart of the “Great Game” was England’s certainty t...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/22082020-china-and-us-the-21st-centurys-great-game-analysis/
The recent standoff has a history. In 2017, Indian and Chinese troops faced-off in Doklam—Dongland to China—the area where Tibet, Bhutan, and Sikkim come together. There were fist fights and ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/08082020-whats-behind-india-china-border-conflict-analysis/
By Conn Hallinan* Albert Camus’ novel 'The Plague" of a lethal contagion in the North African city of Oran is filled with characters all too recognizable today: indifferent or incompetent of...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/17052020-in-a-pandemic-military-spending-is-an-extravagant-waste-oped/
By Conn Hallinan* While the coronavirus has focused much of the world on Europe and the United States, India may eventually prove the hardest-hit victim of the disease. But other than a slic...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/18042020-the-coronavirus-comes-for-india-oped/
By Harry Blain* Between 1978 and 2018, American presidents declared 58 national emergencies . Their targets ranged from “Transactions with Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle Ea...
By Conn Hallinan* As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. The country’s death toll has passed China’s, and s...
By Emanuel Pastreich* For all the coverage of heads of state and high-ranking diplomats, the perceptions generated by the media have the greater impact on the course of international relations...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/17032020-the-global-media-and-covid-19-oped/
By Conn Hallinan* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest gamble in Syria’s civil war appears to have come up snake eyes. Instead of halting the Damascus government’s siege of ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/10032020-erdogans-failed-gamble-in-syria-oped/
By Basav Sen* In May 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi was reelected in India, a development many of us concerned about social, economic, and environmental justic...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/07032020-why-the-trump-modi-friendship-is-so-dangerous-oped/