The Persian Lion Still Roars
Why does Iran still harbor such distrust and animosity towards the United States? This question is a key factor for understanding the continuous failures...
Confronting the Double-Edged Sword: Turkmenistan’s Collective Security Dilemma
In early July, naval delegations from Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan met in St. Petersburg to discuss the idea of a collective security system...
An Anti-Theory of Sanctions: Why an Iranian New Deal was Necessary
While the debate over the wisdom of concluding the Iran nuclear deal continues, this article takes a slightly more involved intellectual approach to explain...
Kazakhstan Steering through Troubled Waters
Earlier this year, the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan announced a new campaign called “Invest in Kazakhstan,” which was designed to attract foreign investors....
Why the JCPOA Won’t Turn Iran Into the Next Saudi Arabia
Of all the anxieties surrounding this summer’s groundbreaking accord between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, concern over oil has been...
Why the JCPOA Won’t Turn Iran Into the Next Saudi Arabia
Of all the anxieties surrounding this summer’s groundbreaking accord between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, concern over oil has been...
Balochistan: A Case of Forgotten Promises
In Pakistan, political instability and socio-economic factors coupled with uneven resource distribution and weak governance have played their role to fester terrorism and crime...
China Ready to Gulp in South China Sea
Speedily and surreptitiously moving ahead in reclamations, constructions and deployment of its military bases in South China Sea (SCS), China seems definitely not using...
The Immigration Issue
The hundreds of thousands of refugees, that come to Europe in order to survive from war and the hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who...
Remaining Rogue? Iran and the Caspian Consequences of the JCPOA
Could the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) create a pathway toward democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran or is the United States...