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For decades, the U.S. dollar has been the international reserve currency. With many countries now seeking an alternative, and BRICS adding new members, are the dollar’s heydays numbered?

Paul Dyer

In this interview with Afkār, Galip Dalay examines Russia’s changing role in the Middle East over two years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s recent elections.

Galip Dalay

The spillover from Israel’s onslaught of the Gaza Strip is not only generating conflict in far-reaching places from Lebanon to Yemen, but is creating economic consequences that could affect the entire globe.

Faozi Al-Goidi, Oumeyma Chelbi

Iran is using the latest war in the Middle East to advance its long-standing agenda. Can it be stopped without expanding the current conflict?

Ranj Alaaldin

Recent decades have seen Kuwait lag behind its Gulf peers along many economic metrics. Can a new emir and government help it recapture the initiative?

Tarik M. Yousef, Robert P. Beschel Jr.

Why was Algeria's candidacy not retained in BRICS, and how can the period before potential future membership be utilized to elevate its global standing through domestic reforms and strategic initiatives?

Yahia H. Zoubir, Xuanrong Wu