The Ruling Taliban: Domestic Challenges and Geostrategic Goals

News from Afghanistan is at the forefront of international capitals' attention, with Taliban Movement taking control of Afghan geography, marking a turning point in the history of a country that is ever engaged in international tensions, once in the collapse of the Soviet Union and then in the war on terrorism. The following paper outlines the most important "domestic" challenges facing the Movement in establishing sustainable and stable political governance. It also reviews Taliban in the highly competitive geostrategic perspective between Washington on the one hand and Beijing and Moscow on the other. The paper concludes by demonstrating the importance of gaining international recognition for the government that Taliban says it is forming with various parties, noting that such recognition will remain subject to Taliban’s ability to prove its good will in breaking with its past and building a new reality away from terrorism or extremism.

PRISM: Who Wants to Be A Great Power

After years of worrying about ethnic conflict and humanitarian intervention, civil wars and counterinsurgency, there is a renewed focus among policymakers, think-tankers, and academics on traditional strategic concerns and in particular confrontation between competing great power who aspire to achieve their goal of being a superpower; Accordingly, What are the negative and positive implications of achieving this goal?

Amman, Cairo, and Baghdad: Towards a pioneering development partnership

Amman, Cairo, and Baghdad are engaged in quiet and intensive talks to formulate a framework of a multi-domain development partnership, thus, numerous official and technical meetings aimed at studying the opportunities that each country has...

Arab World as Reflected in Some Global Indicators: What Do the Numbers Tell Us?

Looking at several and comprehensive indexes offers a broad perception of the ranking of any state or region to the entire world. This is done by measuring the dynamic changes in the fields of development, economics, local politics, security, and peace. Accordingly, this article introduces a wider perspective of the situation of Arab countries in a number of selected global indexes.

Why Terrorism Has Expanded Into The Jungles Of Africa

This report provides an overview of the development of informal armed groups in Africa, going through the most important factors that make the African continent a quasi-safe haven for the expansion of international terrorism after ISIS retrogression in the Middle East; for Africa is crucial to the global security considerations despite the fact that security studies in this regard are relatively few.

"The Afghanistan Papers" and the future's peace with Taliban

US Elections 2020: A Race for Second Term or New President?

The US presidential elections have always been of near-decisive importance for all the major issues and files at the national level as well as the international arena and for handling its course of events. These elections, which will be held in early November 2020, are within the same context, but they are also specifically significant due to the poor health situation resulting from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and its repercussions on social and economic activities, the matter which increased the political polarization among the competitors for the highest executive position in the United States....

PRISM: Cyber Physical Systems: The Coming Singularity

This article tackles the hidden, yet fundamental, technological change taking place at the present time and leads to the unification of our digital and physical worlds in minute detail on both the engineering and operational levels. It also discusses how such a technological transformation/uniqueness, represented in the cyber-physical systems, will have many effects on the US intelligence and military ecosystem, especially with regard to dealing with adversaries. This is through getting to know - in depth and in detail - these systems, their characteristics, developments and effects, and identifying the nature of their relationship with the Internet of Things, in addition to presenting some network visualizations of such systems, and other subtle details.

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