How Regime Change Agendas Fuel Middle Eastern Strife
Increasingly, destabilisation, if not regime change, has emerged as the subtext of the Middle East's multiple conflicts. The notion that civ...
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The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Boo...
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Is war inevitable
There is much Israel could learn from NATO’s newly enunciated defence strategy. It’s a lesson that could set Israel on a path that doesn’t c...
Middle East Report
Iran is restoring one of its nuclear facilities, while at the same timing stepping up attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz – actions tha...
Lessons from Vietnam: Can the US Win the Campaign Against Iran?
Former US State Department official Alan Eyre suggests the US and Iran may be looking to the Vietnam War for lessons. A fluent Farsi speaker...
Who Controls the Middle East-Tracking the New Geopolitical World Order?
Eight months into the war between Iran, Israel and the US, the Middle East's old order is being redrawn, while opportunities and pitfalls ab...
Turkey's Horn of Africa Ambitions
The Iran and Yemen wars are fuelling competition in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa with Turkey as a key player. Turkey has long recognis...
Middle East Report
This week’s Middle East news offers little reason for optimism. The US withdrawal from Iraq has emboldened Iran and darkened prospects for t...
The Middle East's Coming Nuclear Arms Race
The Middle East is off to a nuclear arms race. It’s an inevitable race resulting from recent US policy, a long-standing Western refusal to c...
Entrenched US and Iranian strategies make renewed war inevitable
US President Donald Trump’s rejection of Iran’s proposal to conditionally open the Strait of Hormuz is no surprise. In fact, Iran likely exp...
Middle East Report
James discusses on Radio Islam the fallout of the US withdrawal from Iraq, the Kurds’ uncertain future, why US Iranian talks at the UN are l...
Kurds’ fate hangs in the balance
Kurds, the world’s largest stateless ethnic group, have long been a fixture in US and Israeli machinations to undermine, if not topple, Iran...
Ethnic strife looms large as Trump’s weighs options in Iran
Arrests of Shiite clerics in Sunni-ruled Shiite-majority Bahrain and the recent assassinations in Iran of Baloch and Kurdish religious figur...
Middle East Report
James discusses on Middle East Report recent Middle East developments, including Britain taking a stand against Israeli occupation of Palest...
UK Prime Minister Burnham leads burgeoning US ally revolt against Trump
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband weren’t just addressing Israel when they this week condemned Israeli p...
The US-Iran standoff: A battle of wills and resolve
Iran signalled its gradual escalation of US-Iranian hostilities with this weekend’s first attack on US warships rather than oil and commerci...
Is the Middle East heading for another major conflict
Iran and the United States are barrelling toward a new round of fighting. James discusses the prospects for a wider Middle East war on Money...
Middle East Report 28082026
James discusses on Radio Islam challenges facing the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defence pact, the prospects for success of diplomatic efforts t...
The Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani threat matrix expands exponentially
Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels loomed large when Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan earlier this month inked a mutual defence pact tha...
US sanctions campaign will produce mixed results, at best
Scott Bessent’s attempt to ringfence Iran financially and economically will test the United States’ ability to impose its will and Iran’s ca...
Running against a clock-Trump and Iran harden their positions
As the United States seeks to strangulate Iran economically, the question is whether the policy, with the US naval blockade of Iranian ports...