Category: Irregular migration
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As Pakistanis die in fresh Mediterranean tragedy, a question lingers: Why?
Islamabad, Pakistan – Rehan Aslam’s family ran a transport and car rental business, and grocery stores. Rehan helped run those businesses. But five months ago, the 34-year-old sold his car, a Toyota Hiace wagon, for 4.5 million rupees ($16,000) to pay an agent who would help him leave behind his life in his village, Jora, in…
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TIME Magazine names Donald Trump ‘Person of the Year’
Magazine says we are ‘living in the Age of Trump’ as US president-elect outlines mass deportation and foreign policy plans. TIME Magazine has named Donald Trump its “Person of the Year”, saying “perhaps no single individual has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history” than the United States president-elect. In…
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NATO’s Dilemma in the MENA Region: A Critical Reflection
NATO’s attention to its Southern neighbours, spanning from Mauritania to the Persian Gulf, has taken multiple forms in the past few decades. The Atlantic Alliance has addressed the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region both through multilateral platforms of cooperation and specific NATO-led operations to implement mostly two of the alliances’ core tasks: cooperative…
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The EU and its global partners in a new legislative period
The main driving force for a gradual change of the EU’s approach are the significant changes in the EU’s geopolitical environment. The EU has been dealing with the impact of a war at its immediate doorstep that poses an existential short-, mid- and long-term threat for the EU itself, it is still struggling to develop…
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America Is Cursed by a Foreign Policy of Nostalgia
U.S. foreign policy is adrift between the old order and one that has yet to be defined. Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election awakened many in Washington to the reality that despite the political elite’s presumption of an unassailable foreign policy consensus, many Americans questioned the assumptions that had guided decades of…
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The Case for Engagement With Venezuela
Among the most complex foreign policy challenges facing the new U.S. administration is the situation in Venezuela. Over the past 12 years, Venezuela has transitioned from a fragile democracy to an entrenched authoritarian regime, experiencing one of the most severe economic collapses and migration crises in modern history outside wartime. And in recent years, these…
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U.K. Prime Minister, French Mayors At Odds Over Calais Border Checks
A French gendarme stands next to people waiting for a bus to a refugee camp in Calais, north of … [+] France, on March 16, 2022. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The U.K. Prime Minister has rejected calls from a group of French…
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Labour plots migrant deals with Vietnam and Kurdistan after scrapping Rwanda plan
Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. HOME News Politics Royal Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Finance Travel Life & Style UK World Politics Royal US Weather Science History Weird Nature Sunday InYourArea Sir Keir has been vociferous in his criticism of the Rwanda scheme – but may now take a leaf out of…
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How is Trump’s reelection likely to affect US foreign policy?
Commentary Experts weigh in Pavel K. Baev, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jeffrey Feltman, James Goldgeier, Samantha Gross, Ryan Hass, Mara Karlin, Patricia M. Kim, Lynn Kuok, Tanvi Madan, Suzanne Maloney, Alexander Noyes, Sophie Rutenbar, Natan Sachs, Mireya Solís, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Shibley Telhami, Valerie Wirtschafter, and Andrew Yeo November 14, 2024 A man wears a hat in support…
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Kurdish Activist Fled Iran Into Italy Nightmare
Text size After fleeing Iran and making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, Kurdish activist Maysoon Majidi did not expect to be jailed in Italy for people smuggling. But the day after arriving on a boat last December, she was arrested and held for 10 months — a victim, her supporters say, of a migration…