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The UN and the Puzzle of Forging International Consensus on Afghanistan
- Analysis
- November 4, 2024
The United Nations efforts to mobilize regional and global support for a concerted international approach to the crisis in Afghanistan face significant challenges. A constellation of factors situated at the domestic, regional and global levels of analysis severely shrink the prospects for effective joint action to break the current impasse in Afghanistan. In March 2023,
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Israeli Strikes on Iran
- Analysis
- November 1, 2024
Israel’s recent attack on Iran was a militarily impressive feat. While much about the mission will remain secret for many years, some information is trickling out which permits an evaluation of what was accomplished, how it was done and, most importantly, what it means. Based on open sources, here is our conjecture. It must be
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Heroes or Villains: How Significant are Central Banks to the Inflationary Cycle?
- Analysis
- October 24, 2024
As inflation finally drops below 2 per cent all eyes are on the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate decision on Wednesday, with markets predicting a half-percentage drop. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve finally started bringing rates down in September after raising them 11 times since March of 2022. Does this mean that central bankers
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Reflections on a Century of Israel’s “Iron Wall”
- Analysis
- October 23, 2024
Just over a century ago, Ze’ev Jabotinski wrote two short articles which examined how the Arab population of Palestine would react to the creation of a Jewish majority there. Jabotinski led a branch of the Zionist movement, the Revisionists, who were engaged in a bitter dispute with the mainstream of Zionism over how to deal
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