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War Of Ideas: A View From The UAE
Islamists are fond of saying that “Islam is the Answer.” This was a motto promulgated by the Muslim Brotherhood, and also by Shi’a militant movements in Iraq. Many of the rest of us have asked: what...
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3 Big Trends That Will Shape The Arab World
Arab countries are in the midst of violent convulsions that are fundamentally reshaping the region. While it’s impossible to predict exactly how the chaos will unfold, there are three major trends that...
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The Middle East Meltdown And Global Risk
Among today’s geopolitical risks, none is greater than the long arc of instability stretching from the Maghreb to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. With the Arab Spring an increasingly distant memory,...
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Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot For The Middle East’s Mess
The failure of the Sykes-Picot agreement is now part of the received wisdom about the contemporary Middle East. And it is not hard to understand why. Four states in the Middle East are failing — Syria,...
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Is Terrorism On The Rise? Here’s What The Data Tells Us
Produced annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace, the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) analyses and studies the direct and indirect impact of terrorism on 163 countries. This year’s results...
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The Ottoman Collapse And The Modern Middle East
It is the business of the counterfactual historian to yearn for the former Ottoman Empire when reflecting on the recent incessant regional instability. However, the fact that the empire was in free...
View ArticleThe Long Shadow Of A.Q. Khan: How One Scientist Helped The World Go Nuclear
Driven by ego, nationalism, and a skill for subterfuge, Khan built a clandestine global network that increased the danger of a nuclear catastrophe. Worse, he was never forced to identify the...
View ArticleA Brief Global History Of A Tactic That’s Back In Style: Toppling Other...
More sensible strategists might have first considered whether this goal even makes sense. What does history teach us? Did previous efforts at regime change (by the United States and by others) produce...
View ArticleIs Trump Yet Another U.S. President Provoking a War?
The United States has a long history of provoking, instigating, or launching wars based on dubious, flimsy, or manufactured threats….Today, the question in Washington—and surely in Tehran, too—is...
View ArticlePower-Hungry Turkey May Push The Eastern Mediterranean Into An Armed Conflict
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has extended this belligerent approach to the Mediterranean, sending soldiers to war-torn Libya and tipping the scales in favor of the Muslim...
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