More: Intelligence
Russia, Turkey and UAE: The intelligence services organize and investigate
The FSB (Federal’naja Služba Bezopasnosti Rossijskoj Federácii, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) - created in 1995 from the ashes of the...
Meet Zayed Fadi: Turkish TV’s bellwether for relations with the UAE
Turkish state-run television appears to have not gotten the message: Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are burying the hatchet – one of several...
COVID-19: A Modern Opium War?
US scholar Kenneth Waltz made no mistake when he mentioned “States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are...
The CIA’s Strategic Thinking in Afghanistan: 1979 to 2021
Afghanistan has been a priority area for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the 1950s as a result of the growing influence of the...
Drones in the Hands of Terrorists: What Happens Then?
Ardian is a counter-terrorism researcher, lecturer and security analyst, with a field research experience in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Western Europe, the Balkans, Kenya, Somalia...
Intelligence and Evolution of Democracy in Jordan
The relationship between democracy and the character of secret intelligence presents an interesting puzzle. The very concept of democracy demands that an intelligence agency...
Egypt-China relations after the “U.S. and Israel Policies” in the Middle East
During the past years, several statements about "the new American world order" and “unipolarism” and “the new American century” have emerged over the past...
Rare Earth Elements: Elements of the New trade war
Do we all remember the periodic table which we studied during our school days? Rare Earth elements (REEs) are listed in the periodic table....
Bountygate: A Lesson in Mouthpiece-Journalism
We tend to expect that journalists at all times uncover, verify, and present factually accurate news, so that we may be better informed of...
Cyberspace, Deterrence and Arms Control
Authors: Makam Khan Daim and Mohammed Seid Ahmed*
Edward Snowden’s global surveillance disclosure in 2013 was one of the most important revelations of the 21st...