By Naser Ghobadzadeh Iran’s ruling clergy are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 revolution, during which Shi'ite Islamists, led by religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, toppled Mohammad Reza Shah’s secular monarchy.

Forty years on from the Iranian revolution, could the country be at risk of another one?

By Scott Morgenstern and John Polga–Hecimovich As political and economic crises threaten to topple Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, political scientists like us are not surprised that he has run into trouble.

Why Venezuela’s oil money could keep undermining its economy and democracy

By Scott Lucas The State of the Union headline was not in Donald Trump’s script, which initially leashed him to a teleprompter before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

State of the Union: The women in white stole Trump’s night

By Thomas Purcell There appear to be two distinct responses to the current crisis in Venezuela. Either an authoritarian regime (led by Nicolás Maduro) is clinging to power against the wishes of popular forces arrayed around the new self-declared interim President Juan Guaidó.

Venezuela: US sanctions hurt, but the economic crisis is homegrown

By Jeffrey Fields Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced February 1 that the United States would withdraw from its nuclear weapons treaty with Russia. Since the Obama administration, the US has accused Russia of being in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prohibits the US and Russia from developing certain types of ballistic and cruise missiles.

A nuclear treaty between Russia and the US is falling apart – can it be saved?

By Nisha Bellinger and Byunghwan Son Democracy is at risk worldwide. And the economy may be, too. Seventy-one out of the world’s 195 countries saw their democratic institutions erode in recent years, according to the 2018 year-end report by democracy watchdog Freedom House, a phenomenon known as “democratic backsliding.

Is authoritarianism bad for the economy? Ask Venezuela, Hungary or Turkey

By Michael Semple When members of the Taliban’s Political Commission in Doha sat down with US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on January 21, talks were expected to last only a couple of days.

US peace talks: The tensions within Taliban

*By- Tom Harper Nearly 30 years ago, Donald Trump complained on a US chat show about the trade practices of Japan. This was during Japan’s boom of the 1980s, which propelled it to become the world’s second-largest economy.

Trump's trade war with China is a blame game that has been played before – against Japan

By Emil Kirchner Two new landmark agreements between the EU and Japan come into effect on February 1, 2019: the Economic Partnership Agreement and the Strategic Partnership Agreement.

EU-Japan trade deal comes into force to create the world’s biggest trade zone

By Eleanor Paynter President Trump has long called migration a security crisis, but in recent weeks he has also referred to the situation along the southern border as a humanitarian crisis.

Europe’s refugee crisis explains why border walls don’t stop migration

*By Angelica Duran-Martinez Nearly 34,000 people were murdered in Mexico last year, according to new government statistics - the deadliest year since modern record-keeping began.

Mexico is bleeding. Can its new President stop the violence?

*By Richard Shaw The nation whose anthem lauds “the land of the free and the home of the brave” and whose constitution was drafted “in order to form a more perfect union … and secure the blessings of liberty” continues to flirt with the prospect of authoritarian rule.

Why Trump's wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy

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