Why Saudi Arabia’s Latest Confrontation with the Houthis is a Self-Goal
Liberal internationalists have long argued that the costs of war are so high that leaders will eventually stop choosing it. The record is less reassuring. Leaders often go to war on flawed assumptions and miscalculation rather than careful cost-benefit analysis. The war on terror illustrates the point. The United States entered it with ambitious aims,…
NEW START Expiration and the Return of Nuclear Great Power Politics
The global security architecture has entered a period of instability defined by the collapse of the arms control framework that anchored major-power relations for over five decades. The expiration of New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (NEW START) earlier this year marks the definitive conclusion of the bilateral arms-control era. Established in 2010, New START imposed…
Beyond the “Houthis” Label: Understanding Ansarallah in Yemen
When Western media and policymakers discuss the conflict in Yemen, they almost universally deploy a single, convenient label, “The Houthis”. By filtering an entire geopolitical movement through the lens of a single northern family surname, Western narratives subtly but intentionally reduce a highly organised political and military entity into a backward, tribal uprising. This linguistic…
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