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I don't think many of you would argue that 2020, 2021, and 2022 have been three of the most difficult years of our lifetimes. Sure, good things have happened to us individually, but it's been a tough time in many arenas, such as public health, federal and state government, politics, economics, religion, civilization, and elementary, secondary, and higher education. I dare say no one has been immune to facing challenges in some, if not all, of these realms. All events during this three‐year period are intertwined with the global pandemic of COVID‐19.

The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpest and most prescient. Rarely has there been such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which greeted the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Compared to Iraq, Afghanistan became the "good war." But a stalemate ensued, and the Taliban waited out the NATO contingents. Today, with the collapse of the puppet regime in Kabul, what does the future hold for a traumatised Afghan people? Will China become the dominant influence in the country? Tariq Ali has been following the wars in Afghanistan for forty years. He opposed Soviet military interven- tion in 1979, predicting disaster. He was also a fierce critic of its NATO sequel, Operation Enduring Freedom. In a series of trenchant commentaries, he has described the tragedies inflicted on Afghanistan, as well as the semi-Talibanisation and militarisation of neighbouring Pakistan. Most of his predictions have proved accurate. The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold brings together the best of his writings and includes a new introduction.

This year book presents an annual survey to bring together references to themes examined in the past which have particular current relevance. It provides information on international affairs having a stereotyped and repetitive character for anticipating a "new" happening, or "modern" development.

Government communication is increasingly one of the most visible aspects of political communication. As part of the longitudinal study that has been carried out since 2016 on the communication of the government of Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, in particular on the Ministry of Happiness, it was considered that the 50-year Charter, as a legacy document of governance, should undoubtedly be part our study. In this paper, the content analysis of the 50-year Charter is performed with the purpose of understanding, on the one hand, the main political concepts contained therein and, on the other, the approach to Happiness and Positivity in that document. In the scope of government communication, we intend to understand the visibility given to publication in the media; to this end, we collected and analysed the headlines of the news published in the latent corpus on the 50-year Charter. The results allow us to conclude that, with regard to the relationship between the content and the National Happiness and Positivity Programme, it is possible to find a close connection, namely through the value of charity as an element capable of creating happiness. As for the visibility of the news in the media, we concluded that there is a cadence of information and that the news goes on over time with emphasis also being given to the implementation of the actions described in the Charter by several organisations. ; published