IDDF
Senior Fellow at IDDF focusing on strategic analysis, foreign policy, and international governance.
UNSC: India’s membership and the road ahead
India’s latest election, with the highest number of votes cast in the United Nations General Assembly, to serve…
Pratibha in Syria, to focus on economic ties and investment
After concluding a five-day goodwill tour of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, President Pratibha Patil touched down at…
Inside Syria’s failed rebellion
Thick black lines had been scored over the graffiti under the cherubic image of President Bashar al-Assad that…
Iran-U.S. war of words escalates
The war of words between Iran and the United States escalated sharply on Thursday with a top military…
Bad news for oil-importing nations
The recent European Union proposal to ban the import of Iranian crude is bad news for all oil-importing…
The new great game in West Asia?
A new great game seems to be on. The locale is West Asia and the principal protagonists are…
Qatar wields an outsize influence in Arab politics
Qatar is smaller than Connecticut, and its native population, at 225,000, wouldn’t fill Cairo’s bigger neighbourhoods. But for…
Saudi Arabia’s three worries
It was a very discreet meeting deep in the English countryside. The main speaker was Prince Turki al-Faisal,…
What do the Arab Spring, London riots and Greek debt crisis have in common?
It may not be far off to say that a big share of the world’s political and economic…
The supporters of democracy must welcome political Islam
Ennahda, the Islamic party in Tunisia, won 41 per cent of the seats of the Tunisian constitutional assembly…