Politics

The battle for the Iranian nuclear deal: China approaches a watershed

2018-05-24

Fault lines in the Middle East have hardened because of Israel, Saudi and United Arab Emirates assertiveness, emboldened by both a US administration that is more partisan in its Middle East policy

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Iraq’s Top 10 Potential Prime Ministers

2018-05-23

Will it be the Harvard- and MIT-educated mandarin, the coveralls-wearing man of the people — or someone else the world has never heard of?

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Trapping Trump?

2018-05-23

The hardliners on the nuclear deal with Iran are leaving the U.S. president with one option, namely war.

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What Democracies Can Learn From Malaysia

2018-05-21

Sometimes the real promise of the system is simply the power to remove leaders.

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The Man Who Could Shape Iraq's Future

2018-05-19

Moqtada al-Sadr, who once led part of the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq, may pick the next prime minister.

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How Iran Will Respond to New Sanctions

2018-05-04

Even before US President Donald Trump began threatening to re-impose sanctions on Iran, foreign investors looking to do business there were wary. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani failed to get his pro-market agenda off the ground

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Why Democracy Doesn’t Deliver

2018-04-28

Endless elections, unqualified leaders, uninformed voters, and short-term thinking are impeding economic growth.

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Iran Nuclear Deal: What Merkel Fears Might Happen if Trump Walks Away

2018-04-27

Trump decision to revisit the deal and to pressure the allies to help fix it

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Saudi Arabia wants to dump nuclear waste on the Qatari border to make its archenemy an island

2018-04-10

The two nations have been locked in a crisis since the imposition of a Saudi led diplomatic blockade on Qatar

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Trump Can’t Afford to Forget About Iraq

2018-04-06

Having won the war, will the United States end up yet again squandering the peace?

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No Brexit for a Eurozone Britain

2018-04-02

How much harder would Brexit have been had the United Kingdom adopted the euro back in 2000?

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Yemen Carries Out Massive Missile Strike Against Saudi Arabia

2018-03-31

The missile attack was timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the war and the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Salman to Washington

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Yes, Turkey has definitely become a rogue regime

2018-03-25

Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has turn toward terrorism is well established

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Where Is Barack Obama?

2018-03-11

The former president reticence in the Trump era is only hurting his party

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Preventing Atrocity in the Age of Trump

2018-03-09

The Obama administration set out to create a future free of genocide. Does that future still have a chance?

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Kushner, Business Entanglements, and Security Clearances

2018-03-04

The process for getting a US government clearance was so difficult that there have been reports that people who would normally not be eligible for a TS clearance have been cleared

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Cold War II

2018-02-24

The Cold War lasted four decades, in many ways both beginning and ending in Berlin

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IS THE F-35 FIGHTER THE NEXT TARGET OF SYRIAN AIR DEFENCE?

2018-02-20

Israelis claimed that Israeli jets were scrambled in response to an Iranian drone launched into Israeli airspace

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Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria

2018-02-17

US efforts are in blatant violation of international law

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U. S. Needs to Realize Iraqi National Constants

2018-01-05

US opposed Kurdistan referendum on independence but Kurdish leadership announced that the alternative did not provide guarantees

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How Religion Made a Global Comeback in 2017

2017-12-24

Nationalism, often expressed in religious terms, is a key organizing principle in the foreign policy of President Trump

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Honest Politicians Won't Fix Corruption

2017-12-13

Around the world, people are fed up with venal politicians. But they may be looking for the wrong solution.

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