Middle East & Africa
Russia and Iran in Syria
The world media is abuzz with news about the presidential elections in the United States, the fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh and the upcoming...
Conflict in Ethiopia extends the Greater Middle East’s arc of crisis
Authors: James M. Dorsey and Alessandro Arduino*
Ethiopia, an African darling of the international community, is sliding towards civil war as the coronavirus pandemic hardens...
Darfur’s troubled waters hold key to peace
Each year, 06 November marks the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Here we report on how...
Israel and its Arab citizens
A topic rarely dealt with in the press is the situation between Jewish and Arab (Christian and Muslim) Israeli citizens. On April 26, 2020,...
Strategy, Plague and War: Israel’s Complex Nuclear Future
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."-T S Eliot, The Waste Land
Despite the noise and aggressive self-promotion, Trump administration diplomacy in...
Polisario Front strategy to divide Moroccan (Western) Sahara: Guerguerat crossing border Case
The Moroccan (Western) Sahara file has flared up to zero solution case due to the rebels Polisario Front's (SADR) approach to the option of...
Jokowi Street in Abu Dhabi: The UAE’s Cultural Efforts to Strengthen Ties with Indonesia
Authors: Dr Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama*
Recently, the relationship between the UAE and Indonesia has been under the spotlight after Prince Mohammad bin...
The Battle for the Soul of Islam
Jordanian ruler Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein gloated in 1924 when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the visionary who carved modern Turkey out of the ruins of...
From Sadat to Saddam: The Decline of American Diplomacy in the Middle East- Book Review
David Dunford was a long-serving US diplomat whose career in the Foreign Service spanned 1966 to 1995. His book chronicles his experience in the...
Iran Policy toward Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Nagorno-Karabagh is located inside the Azerbaijani territory that, with the other seven districts around it, has been occupied by Armenian forces between 1988-1994. According...