The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has created a new security dilemma: the same technologies capable of strengthening national defenses can also provide powerful tools for cybercriminals, terrorist organizations and hostile governments.
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For decades, governments attempting to address Iran’s growing regional influence and nuclear ambitions have relied on diplomacy, sanctions and negotiations. A detailed analysis by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
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The early internet was sold as a challenge to sovereignty. Information would route around borders, jurisdiction would dissolve into bandwidth, and the territorial state, the durable invention of the seventeenth-century Westphalian order,
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Editor’s Note: The following essay is based on the original article published in the Colombo-based newspaper Aruna. The article was originally written in Sinhala by journalist Nirosha Wasala and was based on
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The discovery and continuing excavation of human remains at the Chemmani mass grave in northern Sri Lanka have intensified demands for answers from the government and renewed calls for international attention to
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The latest round of tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban authorities has once again been accompanied by allegations of civilian casualties resulting from Pakistani military actions. Such allegations inevitably attract international attention,
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The Okinawan artist Kinjo Minoru is haunted by the tragedy of the 1945 Battle of Okinawan and the military occupation that has marked the island ever since. His art is informed by that sensibility.
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While Israel and Iran have been at loggerheads for several years now, by and large, the Middle East countries such as Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia have kept themselves aloof
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The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the modern world. For more than a century, authoritarian ideologies have sought
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In a March 2026 paper published in the journal Science Advances, which focused on variability in governance along the autocratic-democratic axis, my coauthors and I found that one of the strongest associations for the 40
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There are moments in history when certain truths transcend the realm of partisan disputation and ascend into the sanctified domain of national memory. Such truths are not manufactured by eloquence, nor are
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo For years, the search for accountability over Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks has unfolded through investigations, commissions, political disputes, public campaigns, and courtroom proceedings. Now, a
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Social media debates on issues connected to the Easter Sunday terror attacks have got down and dirty, with religious and political leaders becoming targets of scurrilous attacks. The situation is likely to
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They crossed the border from Sudan carrying the consequences of a devastating war, seeking protection from violence that had already forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. But for some Sudanese
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In the vast desert routes connecting Libya and Sudan, a group of fighters searching through documents recovered from an enemy convoy uncovered evidence of a new dimension in Sudan’s civil war. Among
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