If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.

For decades, Israel has tried to manage the conflict, only to be managed by it.

Moving from a world with no minimum tax to one with a 15 percent floor would seem to be a step forward. But there was always good reason to worry.

Challenges that are fundamentally transnational or global in nature are driving the biggest shifts in development policy.

While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.

In August 1941, even before the United States had entered World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D Roosevelt met secretly off the coast of Newfoundland to discuss how the world could be organised after the war.

Two Americas were represented by two different vice presidents at the Munich Security Conference this year. Between them, former Vice President Joseph Biden certainly received the warmer reception, but Vice President Mike Pence may have unwittingly emerged as the saviour of transatlantic relations.

Following the International Monetary Fund's controversial actions in the Asian financial crisis of 1998, when it conditioned liquidity assistance to...

Since the United Nations Development Program began work on the Arab Human Development Reports (AHDR) in 2001, the situation in many Arab countries...