All posts by "YoungDiplomats Editorial Team"

A look at the potential implications a DPP victory could have for Taiwan, mainland China, and the United States. Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections are just around the corner — ...

By Jasmin Mahmoud, a prominent expert of Palestinian Society and the Israeli Palestinian conflict. In early October, 19-year-old Palestinian Mohannad Shafiq al-Halabi stabbed four Israelis in Jerusalem’s Old City before ...

This Article was written by Faisel Pervaiz , a specialist of India’s economy. Background: Economic expansion and industrialization will increase India’s dependence on imported oil in 2017. Legislative battles and the ...

On January 7th , it was reported that the Iranian embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, was bombed by a Saudi airstrike. The attacks is probably deliberate after heightened tensions between the ...

The fallout of Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shiite cleric is spreading beyond a spat between the Saudis and Iranians, as other Middle East nations choose sides and world powers ...

Jacky Hugi is the Arab affairs analyst of Israeli army radio Galie-Zahal, a columnist for the business newspaper Globes and the former Arab Affairs correspondent for Maariv A new version of the ...

Forecast Political and social turbulence in the Middle East will continue to foster the rise of terrorist groups, some of which will have the motivation and capability to attack U.S. ...

Forecast The Islamic State will continue efforts to improve its capabilities in communication and offensive attacks in cyberspace. The availability of cybercrime tools and services on underground criminal markets will ...

By Jay Ogilvy A few columns ago, I proposed a different vision of geopolitics based on Manuel Castells’ concept of “the space of flows.” The main idea was fairly simple: We need ...

The Islamic State’s use of natural resources to achieve its strategic goals is nothing new. Oil, one of the group’s biggest sources of funding, plays an especially important role in ...