Worlds Apart
The precipitous fall of the Assad government came as a shock to its supporters and opponents alike, but this collapse does not solve many of the fundamental problems that the Syrian Arab Republic has faced over in recent decades. If anything, it has...Dec 15, 2024 08:21- Worlds Apart is a fast-paced, in-depth discussion on the most pressing issues facing the world today.It strives to depart from the traditional Q&A form of interview in favor of a more emotive and engaging conversation. Host Oksana Boyko is not afraid to ask the hard questions that others avoid, with the aim of promoting intelligent public debate.
- Divide and plunder? Kevork Almassian, geopolitical analyst and host of Syriana AnalysisThe precipitous fall of the Assad government came as a shock to its supporters and opponents alike, but this collapse does not solve many of the fundamental problems that the Syrian Arab Republic has faced over in recent decades. If anything, it has...Dec 15, 2024 08:21
- Conniving to convince? Greg Simons, Associate Professor at Turiba UniversityIn politics, they say, perception is reality. This mantra owes its origin to Lee Atwater, a political consultant and strategist for several American presidents. In 1991, at the age of 40, he died of brain cancer but his approach to political...Dec 8, 2024 05:55
- Left to die? Amgad Fareid Eltayeb, executive director at Fikra for Studies & DevelopmentWith the war in Ukraine and the pummeling of Gaza usurping most of the airtime, the world has been almost oblivious to the violence in Sudan, where the levels of destruction have led to the worst displacement and humanitarian crisis in the world....Dec 1, 2024 06:06
- Diktats & formats? Paulo Nogueira Batista, former executive director at the IMFThe ability to forecast and steer global development in its favor has long been one of the West’s competitive advantages, allowing it to ride a wave of ever-increasing influence until 2009, when the global financial crisis pushed the US to...Nov 24, 2024 05:54
- Frenzy to the fire? Arvind Gupta, Director of the Vivekananda International FoundationGlobal politics has never been particularly orderly or predictable but the recent American elections and their aftermath are likely to add even more frenzy to the already boiling geopolitical cauldron. As the United States gears up for another four...Nov 17, 2024 06:30
- Fired & hired? Richard Sakwa, professor emeritus of Russian & European politicsFrench politician and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, best known for his work ‘Democracy in America’, warned two centuries ago about how a dynamic and self-powered democratic system can decay and become the total opposite of its...Nov 10, 2024 07:25
- Blaming for granted? Wilmer Leon, political scientistAmerican presidential elections have always been more about personalities than policy issues and perhaps that makes sense, because the policies haven't differed much from one administration to the next, at least not during this century. But given...Nov 3, 2024 07:38
- BRICS of success? Dejan Soskic, former governor of the National Bank of SerbiaThe last three years of Western economic warfare against Russia haven’t yet delivered a fatal blow to the Kremlin, but they have dramatically changed the functioning of the global, and particularly, the Western economies. Escaping...Oct 27, 2024 06:37
- Fake identity, fake agenda? Anuradha Chenoy, Professor Emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIdentity politics has long been American politicians’ preferred way of deflecting from the real issues at home but, overseas, it’s been used as a powerful tool to sew chaos and ensure American influence. Why does turning neighbors...Oct 20, 2024 07:13
