Additional considerations on the Iranian nuclear power
The document issued on December 2, 2015 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - the Vienna organization which is composed of representatives from...
Syrians Not Seeking, Syrians Not Welcome: Refugees and the Caspian Region
The primary point of interest here is why Syrians are fleeing their nation and where they are going. The primary reason they are fleeing...
WORLD WAR Z: Why Russia Fights DAESH Zealots
America has made little progress in Iraq and Syria, something Russia is determined to change apparently. The Obama administration maintains that...
Water, Wars and an Uncertain Future
In December 2009, I met Walid Muallem, Foreign Minister of Syria, in his office in Damascus, along with an eminent British politician. He rolled...
Churchill was Right about Russia and Still Is
The world buzzes with headlines of Vladimir Putin and Russian action and reaction to world events. On the surface it seems virtually all Russian...
What Turkey wants
The shooting down of the Russian military aircraft, and the subsequent attack of the jihadist "Turkmen" on the helicopter sent from the base of...
10 Questions for the Future of Russia-Turkey Relations
Most of the world raised a curious eyebrow when news broke of a Russian military jet being knocked from the sky by Turkey, resulting...
Reconstituting Syria
Public discussion of the Syrian situation has tended to focus on the plight of the Syrian refugees and their effects on neighboring countries, the...
Europe’s new geopolitics following the Russian presence in Syria and Iraq
After the shooting down of the Russian Su-24 aircraft by a Turkish F-16 fighter, some analysts are envisaging a future scenario of waged war....
False Promise: How the Turkish-Russian Dilemma Unmasks NATO
There is no shortage of security threats to the NATO alliance: a resurgent and militarily active Russia; the territorial and global jihadist threat of...