New doctrines and crushing budgetary pressures may well make a non-nuclear world seem irresistible. But regional rivalries...
Tags: America's nucelar delivery system, America's nuclear arsenal, arms race, China, Cold War, conventional weapons, denuclearization, France, George Shultz, Global Brief, Henry Kissinger, Iran's nuclear program, Israel's nuclear program, Israel's nuclear weapons, mutually assured destruction, NATO, nuclear arms race, nuclear free zone, Nuclear Posture Review, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, Peter Jones, President Obama, Russia's nuclear arsenal, WMDFZ
Proposition: The Iraq war (launched in 2003) eventually provided oxygen for today’s Arab Spring
Shuvaloy Majumdar...
Tags: Abbasid caliphate, Arab Spring, Baghdad, democracy in the Middle East, extremist Islamism, Global Brief, Hugh Kennedy, Iran invasion, Iraqi Baath Party, Middle East, Nasserist socialism, Peter Jones, Saddam, Shiite, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Tahrir Square, Tunisian rebellion, US foreign policy, US national security strategy
Irreconcilable understandings of ‘the peace’ have betrayed the hollowness of saying “I’m for peace.” But time is...
Tags: 1967 borders, Afghanistan, Egypt, Flotilla, gaza, George Mitchell, Global Brief, Goldstone Report, impossible peace, Iran, Israël, Israel-Palestine, Israel-Palestinian conflict, Israelis, Oslo accord, Palestine, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, peace agreement, Peace Process, Peter Jones, PLO, Syria, Turkey, US, Vice-President Biden, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin
What will Iran look like in 10 years?
Trita Parsi
What will Iran look like in a decade if we continue to put the nuclear...
Tags: 1979 Revolution, Ahmadinejad, Alidad Mafinezam, and How to Win A Cosmic War, China, Global Brief, Green Movement, Iran, Iranian civilization, Iranian democracy, Israel and the United States, June 2009 elections, liberty, military dictatorship, No God but God, Persian Constitutional Revolution, Peter Jones, political reform, Revolutionary Guard, Reza Aslan, rule of law, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Shah, Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Trita Parsi
Over the past year, there have been numerous high-level events dedicated to, or greatly influenced by, the growing movement...
