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The Twilight of EU Foreign Policy
January 30,2020 | Sławomir Sierakowski
Reporting on a recent conference in Berlin to discuss the conflict in Libya, one of Germany’s largest newspapers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, notes that, “the days when America ...
Afghanistan-India Relations: A Good Example amongst Regional Countries
January 29,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Last Friday was coincided with the 70th anniversary of bilateral relations between Afghanistan and India. Many Afghans believes that these relations have been strong, unlimited, stable ...
The Power of AI in Emerging Markets
January 29,2020 | Frank-Jürgen Richter
Artificial intelligence is permeating almost every aspect of life in advanced economies. From governments to businesses to individuals, AI’s reach is sweeping ...
The Positive Role of Moderate Tradition in Social and Economic Development
January 28,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The growing oppositions between traditionalists and modernists is one of the several factors which cause socio-cultural gaps and divisions among technocrat and ...
The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History
January 28,2020 | JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
At the end of the Cold War, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called “The End of History?” Communism’s collapse, he argued, would clear the ...
Rule of Law Promotion as a Basic Requirement
January 27,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The philosophies of enacting laws are to ensure justice, orders and protect the rights of citizens in a country. It is the rule of law that draws a distinction between human societies and ...
Has the World Economy Reached Peak Growth?
January 27,2020 | Jim O’Neill
At the start of a new decade, many commentators are understandably focused on the health of the global economy. GDP growth this decade most likely will be lower than during the ...
National Budget as a National Priority
January 26,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The national budget is an important financial document proposed for government expenditure for one year and it is often prepared and presented by the ...
Building Cooperation in an Unsettled World
January 26,2020 | Børge Brende
The world is at a turning point, with power shifting and dispersing in ways that signal the emergence of a new multipolar era. In the resulting turbulent global environment, opportunities ...
Agreement in Doha but Disagreements in Kabul
January 25,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
This is several times when the peace talks between the US envoys and the Taliban progress in Doha, the divergence of opinions intensifies in Kabul. This time, it has ...
Net-Zero at Davos
January 25,2020 | Jules Kortenhorst
At its annual flagship meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this year, the World Economic Forum called on companies from around the world to commit to reducing their ...
The Solution for Kabul’s Diseased Lungs
January 23,2020 | Sayed Sameer Sadat
From smog hanging over cities to smoke inside the home, air pollution poses a major threat to health and climate. Air pollution specifically outdoor air pollution which is ...
All is not Well Under Globalisation
January 23,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
In today’s world globalisation, liberalisation and privatisation is gaining growing attention as a strategy for survival, competition and growth. True economic globalisation involves a
How to Ensure Effective Governance
January 22,2020 | M Hashimi
Favorable, fair, and effective governance is clearly one of the most dominant factors for sustainable development. Today good governance is also a key to sustainable development. Honest and ...
Why AI Will Not Abolish Work
January 22,2020 | Andrea Komlosy
The diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across the economy has raised the possibility – and for many, the fear – that machines will eventually replace human work. They will not only ...
Fulfilling the Responsibility of Being True Human Being
January 21,2020 | Asim
Every society is recognized from the types of its problems and the nature of its values and habits of its people. The great societies of the world that achieved the ...
A Data Revolution for All
January 21,2020 | Michael Froman and Rajiv Shah
Science has revolutionized medicine and agriculture over the last 100 years, particularly for the poorest of the poor. Achievements ranging from the treatment of hookworm to the ...
Unlimited Potentials and Broad Prospects for China-Afghanistan Cooperation
January 20,2020 | Wang Yu
There is a similar saying in both Chinese and Pashto, ‘as you sow, so shall you reap.’ On 20 January1955, China and Afghanistan established diplomatic relations. In the over 2,000 years ...
The Geopolitical Feature of Peace and War in Afghanistan
January 20,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Though there have been various wars and conflicts in the world, the features of conflicts in Afghanistan seem unique. For example, many of post-colonial African and Latin America ...
Afghans’ Concerns over US-Taliban Likely Peace Agreement
January 19,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
The US and Taliban representatives, who have restarted their negotiations in the Qatari capital of Doha, are close to signing a peace deal. However, the talks were held behind closed doors and ...
Closing the SDG Gap
January 19,2020 | Kevin Watkins
As global business and political leaders gather in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, they should ask themselves one big question: Will the world achieve the ...
We Are As Strong As We Are United
January 18,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The very simple definition of unity is act of joining together and living together under a nondiscriminatory political system in order to achieve national ...
Hostages of History
January 18,2020 | Carl Bildt
During the recent flare-up between the United States and Iran, US President Donald Trump tweeted that he was prepared to bomb “52 Iranian sites (representing the ...
Why We Need to Develop a Critical Research Culture
January 16,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
As a consequence of long conflicts in Afghanistan, the research and academic activities are faced many quantative and qualitative challenges. During the ...
Consequences of British policy in South Asia
January 16,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
The consequence of the constitutional advance from the Reforms of 1919 to the India Act of 1935 encouraged, in the Muslim majority provinces, powerful centrifugal forces based on community and regional identity. However, the basic parameters of Muslim politics ...
The Challenges of Winter Season in Afghanistan
January 15,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The natural challenges are usually high in Afghanistan but it is higher in the winter seasons. These challenges consist of road blockage, snowstorm, snow-slippage, human ...
Trump’s Near Miss with Iran
January 15,2020 | Elizabeth Drew
The recent tense, dangerous exchanges between the United States and Iran have revealed a great deal about US President Donald Trump’s management of his foreign policy. The main ...
How Ancient Silk Road Contributed to the Ancient Civilizations
January 14,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
Trade and cultural exchanges played a crucial role in the development of ancient civilization. Besides commercial give-and-take, the historical Silk Road was a route ...
Central Banks Face a Year of Mounting Challenges
January 14,2020 | Mohamed A. El-Erian
After a year that involved one of the biggest U-turns in recent monetary-policy history, central banks are now hoping for peace and quiet in 2020. This is particularly true for the ...
Causes of Administrative Corruption
January 13,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
There is decisive unanimity that corruption is the mother of all problems in Afghanistan. According to experts, after insecurity, the corruption is the second most ...
The Inequality Debate We Need
January 13,2020 | Kenneth Rogoff
While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and fortune of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to electricity. And more than two billion have no ...
What Is OHS? & Why It Is Important to Know?
January 12,2020 | Sayed Nasrat Hashemi
OHS means “Occupational Health & Safety”, the three words that either our society is not familiarized with or those who are familiar, ignore it or can not do anything about it, since we were ...
The End of the Free-Market Paradigm
January 12,2020 | Diane Coyle
The 2020s will be the decade when the idea that economic problems can be “left to the market” to solve is finally put to rest – after some 40 years during which that belief has caused untold damage to society and . . .
Degrading Treatment as Human Rights Violation
January 11,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
People sustain inhuman treatment in times of war and peace across the world and their rights and “inherent dignity” are violated in one way or another. Although there is a set of globally accepted moral and ...
The Demonization of Journalists Must End
January 11,2020 | Leon Willems
Five years ago this month, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi stormed the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and, in a nightmare lasting just minutes, killed 12 ...