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Strategic Surprise In West Asia
Moscow’s carefully planned military intervention in Syria has shocked Western policymakers. The impressions over the past year seemed…
UN Resolution On Israeli Settlements: Obama???s Farewell ???Kiss Of Death??? To Long-Time Ally
Days before leaving office, President Barack Obama could not resist the temptation of giving a deadly farewell gift…
???Democracy too is Darwinian’
Socio-biology throws surprises at us, asking us to be appreciative of many other animals and even insects like…
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…
‘We Must Now Choose’
Why did we choose this topic? Because things are changing in a fundamental way around us. And they…
The Strategic Gulf
Those who expected the summit between US President Obama and Saudi King Abdullah to produce a ???reset??? button…
Pushing Iran to the brink
The decision to impose a European Union oil embargo on Iran, agreed on Monday, by European foreign ministers,…
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…
DISCOVERING SYRIA
Syria???s truths???its authoritarian repression, its poverty and unemployment???belie its very freedoms, its refusal to succumb to clichés about…
‘There Is No Limit That Anyone Can Place On Israel’s Violence’
Extracts from this interview with the former Indian diplomat appeared in printIs Israel becoming a rogue state and…