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NEW GULF WAR: A SOURCE OF CHAOS FOR CHINA
Deepening conflict among Arab states in the Middle East has made headlines recently. Experts are analyzing the ongoing events from different angles, and what is obvious is that the situation is taking a very
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TURKEY-IRAN: WILL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP SUCCEED?
Visit of Prime Minister R.T. Erdoğan to Tehran revealed some intriguing aspects. Experts were quick to respond, claiming that strategic interests underpin Ankara-Tehran rapprochement. Admittedly, Iran-Turkey relations are capable of impacting geopolitical dynamics of
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INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR DANIEL PIPES
Daniel Pipes is President of the American think-tank, the Middle East Forum (http://www.meforum.org/), and publisher of its journal, the Middle East Quarterly. His writing focuses on the American foreign policy, the Middle East, Islam and Islamism. For details
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TURKEY’S FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS A RESET
Turkey’s current situation proves that the AKP’s foreign policy approach has roundly failed. When they rose to power in 2002, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a
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DEFINING THE ENEMY: FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO THE WAR ON TERROR
The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 marked the culmination of elected German civilian and military leaders’ evolving plans of discrimination, persecution, and ultimately, systematic killing of the Jews of Europe. Yet the bureaucratic
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A PLEA FOR TRANSITIONAL AL-ASSAD RULE
The term “Arab Spring” refers to the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests that took place in Arab region during 2011 and 2012. After peaceful transitions in Tunisia and Egypt, Arab Spring’s third station
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