NATO’s partnerships in Asia: Practical cooperation in response to changes in global security environment?
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol By Habib Toumi SEOUL: Individually Tailored Partnership Programs, cooperation on transnational issues that span regional borders, enhanced military information sharing, a potential new liaison office … the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is rapidly deepening engagement with its Asia partners – South Korea and […]
NATO and its partners: An inevitable global security architecture?
Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (Yonhap) By Habib Toumi SEOUL: Amid the recent moves by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to create a series of overlapping and distinctive multilateral and mini-lateral alliances beyond its initial geographical limits, reactions across the globe have been vastly different, ranging […]
South Korea’s dynamics with NATO to demonstrate its capabilities as a pivotal state
By Habib Toumi TUNIS: History was made in the June 2022 Madrid North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit with the groundbreaking participation of two far-eastern states, South Korea and Japan, as well as Australia and New Zealand, all partners from the Asia-Pacific region. Within the strategic competition over the core principles of international security, this participation […]
No future for newspaper columns, opinions?
By Habib Toumi MANAMA: Sipping an orange juice with friends as the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day, I was confronted with a “negative” attitude that underestimates writing in the realm of nonfiction. “Writing editorials and columns is no longer relevant,” some of them said during our conversation. Their logic is that no columnist should expect […]
Enhancing the use of social media as an early warning system
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Social media should finally play an important role in society. As the name suggests, these are social and can take on important tasks as media – being in the service of a healthy society. This is another chance and a challenge as well, to give social media more responsible objectives […]
Stigma caused by isolation in modern society
By Dr. Hassan Humeida – KIEL, GERMANY: We live in a world heavily tainted with stigmatization of all kinds. A high-performance world in which we rarely see or tolerate people with disabilities in public. Even old people who lived under one roof with their relatives in past decades and who have set ways accents […]
The poisoning of life by drugs – Direct and indirect effects
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Today, many people are not satisfied with themselves, their performance or surroundings. Today’s man is in search of the perfect drug that can make everything possible in life. It doesn’t matter what the drug is made of, it can be chemical, herbal, or both in one compound. What matters is […]
The booming business of weapons: Winners and losers
By Dr. Hassan Humeida KIEL: Weapons are proliferating worldwide and are particularly plentiful among the poorest sections of the population. Weapons can kill people, but cannot feed people, in any way, anywhere. A big business can be made globally with weapons and their trade, buying, selling and exportation. This is in favor of the weapon […]
Thank you for the AsiaN 10th anniversary forum
By Sang-ki Lee, AsiaN founder and publisher Former president of the Korea Journalists Association SEOUL: AsiaN, the print and online expression of the Asia Journalist Association (AJA), held the ‘Next Leadership Toward Active ESG’ forum at the National Assembly Library in the Korean capital to commemorate the 10th anniversary of its foundation. Former UN Secretary-General […]
The Life of Activists – Leaving own life for others
Youth Climate Strike in Seoul, South Korea (Greenpeace) Dr. Hassan Humeida – Kiel, Germany KIEL, GERMNAY: When we look at the lives of activists in different fields, we find a number of real threats to this professional group. Activists as a term reveals that this special target group achieves above-average performance of the normal person […]