Russia and Global Forecasting: Getting Past Melodrama Diplomacy
The President of the E. M. Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), Academician...
Gulf media wars produce losers, no winners
Feuding Gulf states that have pumped millions of dollars into public diplomacy appear to have done better in damaging the reputations of their detractors...
The Gulf crisis: Qatar’s 2022 World Cup moves into the firing line
A French investigation into possible corruption in business deals related to Qatar’s winning of World Cup hosting rights moved the 2022 tournament a step...
Africa and the World Bank: Why it’s Not Too Late
African countries are in a developmental conundrum; they have seen economic reversals in the wake (and arguably because) of the World Bank and yet...
Playing with Fire: Trump’s Iran policy risks cloning North Korea
As US President Donald J. Trump gropes with a set of bad options for responding to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear and ballistic missiles...
Macron’s global strategy in Africa and in the European Union
Both Chirac and Sarkozy had five minutes to leave power, while François Hollande could even have five months to do so. In fact, at...
Only U.S. Deep State Oligarchs Want World War III
As long as the Deep State Oligarchs can continue to use the Citizens United supreme court case to bribe the entire U.S. Congress and...
Playing both sides against the middle: Saudi engages with Iraqi Shiites
Saudi Arabia, with the Islamic State on the ropes in Iraq, is forging ties to Iraqi Shiite leaders and offering to help fund reconstruction...
The rationale of foreign policy
From the 1970s onwards, politics has undergone a very extensive and thorough conceptual transformation. I am not referring to the usual and trivial issue...
Strife in Jerusalem: Fears of popular revolts bring Israel and Arabs together
A web of formal and informal Israeli-Arab relations and common fears of renewed popular uprisings that could threaten regimes and benefit Islamist groups like...