Middle East & Africa
U.S. Policy on Zimbabwe Leaves Door Open for China
The clearest image yet of the failure of
United States’ policy towards Zimbabwe was on display last week when President
Emmerson Mnangagwa toured the site of...
Ending the Gulf crisis: Natural gas frames future Gulf relations
Natural gas could well emerge as the litmus test of how relations among
the Gulf’s energy-rich monarchies evolve if and when a Saudi-United Arab
Emirates-led alliance...
U.S. Foreign Policy Threats to Israel’s National Security: Strategic Imperatives for Jerusalem
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
Though U.S. President Donald Trump describes himself as pro-Israel, any seriously analytic assessment of...
Arab Spring and Third Wave of Democratisation: The case of Egypt
Professor Huntington introduced the
concept of the third wave of democratization in five phases. They are the emergence
of reformers, acquiring powers, failure of liberalization, backward...
A microcosm of Iran’s domestic problems, port city bears brunt of crackdown
The Iranian port city of Bandar-e-Mahshahr has emerged as the scene of some of the
worst violence in Iran’s brutal crackdown on recent anti-government protests.
Located...
Foreign policy background of the Iranian crisis
Despite all the complexity and ambiguity of the situation now exiting in
the world, the summer and fall of 2019 saw a certain degree of...
How many people were killed in recent protests in Iran?
As it was obvious from the beginning, a complex scenario, which had been
designed long before to create unrest and insecurity in Iran, was began...
Unrest in Iraq: Continuation of the Arab Spring or a New Political Reality?
Mass protests broke out in Baghdad on October 1, 2019, and continued all
month long. The demonstrations spanned a large part of the country and...
Mending Gulf fences could weaken support for US sanctions against Iran
Saudi efforts to negotiate an end to the Yemen war in a bid to open a
dialogue with Iran could call into question continued Gulf...
Riots in Iran
Protests
against the petrol price rise and rationing in Iran began on November 15 in
Ahvaz, when the Iranian government announced the fuel price increase up...