Gulf soccer suggests that “The Times They Are a-Changin”
Gulf soccer may be giving Bob Dylan’s 1964 hit, ‘The Times They Are
a-Changin,’ a new lease on life.
Qatar surrendered its
Arabian Gulf Cup hosting rights...
It’s when not if China’s Middle Eastern tightrope snaps
China is manoeuvring to avoid being sucked into the Middle East’s
numerous disputes amid mounting debate in Beijing on whether the People’s
Republic will be able...
Salvaging international law: The best of bad options
These are uncertain times with trade wars, regional conflicts and
increased abuse of human and minority rights pockmarking the transition from a
unipolar to a multipolar...
Rise of civilisationalists forces rethink of sovereign nation state
Shaping a new
world order is proving to be about a lot more than power.
The rise of
the civilizational state and of civilizational rather than national...
Global protests: Russia and China risk ending up on the wrong side of history
Widespread perceptions see Russia together with China as the rising
powers in the Middle East as a result of America’s flip flops in Syria and...
Countering civilisationalism: Lebanese and Iraqi protesters transcend sectarianism
Protests in Lebanon have evolved into more
than a fight against failed and corrupt government that has long stymied
development in the Middle East and North...
Popular Protest: How effective is it?
If there is one theme, beyond corruption and a host of economic and
social grievances, that have driven protests -- large and small, local,
sectoral and...
Joining the global protest fray: Islamists march on the Pakistani capital
Pakistan, long viewed as an
incubator of religious militancy, is gearing up for a battle over the future of
the country’s notorious madrassas, religious seminaries accused...
Turkey and China tie themselves in knots over Syria and Xinjiang
Turkey’s ambassador to China, Emin Onen, didn’t mince his words this
week when he took his Chinese
hosts to task for failing to support Turkey’s military...
Turkey and the Kurds: What goes around comes around
Turkey, like much of the Middle East, is discovering that what goes
around comes around.
Not only because President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have
miscalculated the...