OPINION

By Dorji Dhradhul, Kuzuzangpola Universe! To my fellow volunteers, brothers and sisters, There are moments in the life of a nation that future generations will read about in books, moments when ordinary citizens quietly came together and helped shape an extraordinary future. This is one of those moments. We were …

Richard Haass NEW YORK – There is much that can be said about the United States’ decision to attack Iran – and about what could result from the joint US and Israeli strikes against military and political targets throughout the country. Unfortunately, little of it is reassuring. First and foremost, …

By Rakesh Mohan & Divya Srinivasan NEW DELHI – With infrastructure now seen as the leading engine of growth across the Global South, governments are under pressure to build – and fast. But for most, fiscal space is limited; development aid is thinning; and long-promised climate financing remains elusive. As …

By Ajay Shah NEW DELHI – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has issued a battle cry in the global fight against deglobalization. In a historic speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, he called on the world’s “middle powers” to take a new approach to revisionist powers, a list …

By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – On January 27, US President Donald Trump’s second withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement will finally take effect. This follows his announcement on January 7 that the United States would leave an additional 66 international organizations, including 31 United Nations entities and 35 non-UN bodies, …

By Dorji Dhradhul (Creativity Catalyst) A Convergence of Vision, Evidence, and Timing Taken together, the survey findings do not merely endorse Bhutan’s past choices; they validate its future direction. They confirm that the values embedded in HVLV, mindfulness, regulation, respect, and responsibility are increasingly shared by a global constituency of …

By Jayati Ghosh NEW DELHI – There is a method behind the apparent madness of US President Donald Trump’s transactional, spheres-of-influence approach to geopolitics and the global economy. Nowhere has this logic been clearer than in his administration’s illegal abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and its ongoing efforts to …

By Dorji Dhradhul (Creativity Catalyst) An international perception survey was undertaken between April and June 2025 to assess the global relevance of Bhutan’s High Value, Low Volume (HVLV) tourism policy in the context of mounting challenges facing tourism worldwide. These challenges include the accelerating climate crisis, over-tourism and mass tourism …

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – One year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has established himself as the most revolutionary US president in recent history. Whereas “America First” once seemed like an isolationist posture (not least to Trump’s MAGA base), it is now clear that it embraces a Hobbesian …

By Yuen Yuen Ang WASHINGTON, DC – For a mathematician, 2025 might stand out for being a “perfect square”: 45 multiplied by 45, a rare symmetry. But its significance goes far beyond numerical elegance – it marks the year the postwar global order expired, and a new one was about …