As before, however, any such move into the country would be fraught with the same risks that have bedeviled past Israeli invasions of Lebanon.
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In 2012, the Chinese Communist Party introduced new rules on officials’ spending – and the local restaurant trade suffered.
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China and Russia view the latest Washington intervention in the Middle East as a further decline of the United States’ global power.
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Hungarian political scientist Zsolt Enyedi speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how Viktor Orbán lost power to Péter Magyar and what the result means for the European Union.
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Tehran and Washington look to different rules to govern their conduct in the key choke point.
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Pyrrhus was said to have remarked that one more victory would leave his kingdom ‘utterly ruined.’ Some see echoes in US interventions in the Middle East.
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Talk of regime change brings up uncomfortable memories of the chaos after the overthrow of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
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The ideology named after former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez became more authoritarian under Nicolás Maduro. Can the country’s new leader steer it back toward democracy?
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Using ‘axis’ to describe a grouping of countries tends to link them to a sordid past – but not always.
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Nations are becoming adept at provocations that fall in the area between routine peacetime actions and open warfare.
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