Women, Water and Peace
More than 50 opinion makers and policy makers from the Middle East came together to discuss linkages between women, water and peace in a...
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...
21 March: Navroz, The Recurrent Renewal
May the soul flourish;May youth be as the new-grown grain Navroz, usually celebrated on 21 March in Iran and Central Asia, is the “New...
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...
How did radicalism led to presidency?
Unlike many pundits, who did not opt Donald Trump for the final nomination, finally he did very well in primaries. Now, the possibility of...
The Middle East, North Africa, and Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next President
2016 will be a pivotal year for the US as it chooses a new president. It is an election year with no incumbent running....
China and the National People’s Congress of 2016
As often happens, China is at a significant political turning point: the National People's Congress, the single House of the Chinese Parliament, made up...
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...
Putin, Dugin and the Coming Wild Ride on Leviathan
It does not strain the imagination to snare drum tautness to imagine Vladimir Putin, bare chested in his best rodeo persona, bronco-busting Leviathan. However,...
The Russian Federation’s geopolitics
In a now famous speech delivered at the Conference on Security, held in Munich in 2007, Vladimir Putin harshly clarified the structural determinants of...