Middle East & Africa
Yemen negotiations move ahead slowly – post-war planning needed
As a result of Saudi bombing raids, Yemen’s underdeveloped socio-economic infrastructure has been largely destroyed. Post-war planning will need to be followed by international...
Turkey’s Strategic Reset: Engagement instead of contention
‘The EU loves to portray itself as a pan-European project. However, it stubbornly rejects and systematically demonises the only two European countries that have...
The Greatness of a ‘Normal’ Iran: The Real Challenges for a Post-JCPOA
The recent Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreements between Iran and the international community will, no doubt, have a major impact on Iranian...
Syria’s ‘Competing Interventions:’ Much Ado Accomplishing Nothing
The Syrian conflict has led to the failure of the Syrian state, which has had consequences for not only the Middle East, but a...
Understanding Arab-Islamic Politics: Advocating the Case of the Political Culture Approach (B)
The deepest crisis of our world today is of leadership. What happened in the first half of the 20th century was a crisis of...
Understanding Arab-Islamic Politics: Advocating the Case of the Political Culture Approach (A)
The chronicles of human history are mainly the struggle between despotic, oppressive governments, on the one hand, and freedom from tyranny and the aspiration...
The United States in Syria
So far the United States and their coalition have conducted 12,199 aerial bombing operations in Syria and Iraq - exactly 8,322 in Iraq and...
Iran’s moves in Syria
A recent article published on the Russian Pravda, which is certainly not just the result of grey propaganda, namely that kind of "grey" communication...
The Apocalyptic Islamic Global Jihad Groups and International Relations: the 7th Century is Back (B)
The main question is whether the West is capable of halting its internal decay and to revive itself, or whether it will be accelerated,...
The Apocalyptic Islamic Global Jihad Groups and International Community: the 7th Century is Back (A)
The history of humanity is, in essence, the history of wars, peace agreements, balances of power, and cycles of wars. Every time any protagonist...