Making Sense of the Economic Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War
Fair Observer’s new feature FO° Insights makes sense of issues in the news. We pose a series of rapidfire questions...
Month: May 2022
Tibetan Activist and Writer Tenzin Tsundue Talks to Fair Observer
In October 1950, China’s Red Army invaded Tibet’s eastern province, posing as an army of liberation from Western imperialism. In...
The Caliph v The Emir al-Mu’minin: Which Islamic Model of Statehood Will the Taliban Adopt?
The world imagines the Taliban to be a monolith of bearded Islamic fundamentalists. However, much like Afghanistan and the rest...
The Education of Priests and the Future of the Catholic Church in Ireland
It is a great honor to be invited to speak at this important event. I have lived much of my...
The Old Woman and the QR Code
I’m not Ernest Hemingway but he did advise “Write hard and clear about what hurts.” There was no big fish...
India Looks to Finland for an Effective Educational Model
For some time, the world of education has become aware of the exceptional success of Finland’s boldly innovative education system....
Can the World Pay the Cost of Increasingly Frequent Natural Disasters?
As the world slowly emerges from the fog of COVID-19, we have become accustomed to the reports detailing the global...
Contesting Russia Requires Renewed US Engagement in Central Asia
When US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III declared that Washington wanted to see Russia so “weakened” that it would...
How Could the US Bring Peace to Ukraine?
On April 21, US President Joe Biden announced new shipments of weapons to Ukraine. These would cost US taxpayers $800...
Cold Warriors Stoke Another War in Ukraine
To be clear at the outset, what is going on in Ukraine is horrific. With nothing more at the ready...
