Middle East & Africa
The Compulsion of Water Cooperation
Danilo Turk and Sundeep Waslekar Since last September when the United Nations declared water as a sustainable development goal, a number of countries have...
Islamic Encroachment: the Western Poverty and Lack of Education Syndrome
Western political culture concentrates on the issue of poverty, misery, economic distress, social despair and lack of education that lead to homicide bombings in...
Islam: Beheadings, Decapitation, and Butchering
The horrible pictures of the atrocious ritual beheadings of ICS, the Islamic Caliphate State, on the Internet, have shown an ugly face of Western...
Is the peace plan dead?
In 2002, the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who was then the crown prince, told a visiting journalist from the United States that...
An analysis of Iran’s elections
First and foremost, it is worth clarifying that in Iran the division between "reformists" and "liberals" on one side and "conservatives" or even "fundamentalists"...
Some considerations on the Libyan case
Too little, too late. Any international effort to "bring peace" to Libya is now a commitment which, in all likelihood, will not lead to...
Iran’s elections of February 26, 2016
On February 26, 2016 elections will be held in Iran both for Parliament (Majlis) and for the Assembly of Experts, the Council created by...
Additional considerations on the Iranian nuclear issue
We all know that the Russian Federation has been one of the true resolver of the Iranian nuclear issue, also within the negotiations that...
The Benefit of Retrospect – Winning the War and Losing the Peace
It's often said that most generations repeat the errors of previous generations and fail to capitalize on the benefit of retrospect. With the ability...
Millennial Iran: Change or status quo?
Domestically, nationalism in Iran is high as it has produced some of the greatest artists, physicians, poets, and mathematicians that history has ever seen...