Russia emphasizes the economic, Europe the political and moral. An ideological great game by any other name may just be two...
Tags: Belarus, Eastern Europe, economic modernization, EU, Euro, Global Brief, global financial flows, modernization, Moldova, Russia, Tatiana Romanova, Turkey, Ukraine
Religion, artificially divorced from the public sphere, makes for an impoverished politics at best, and a benighted political...
Tags: Andrew P.W. Bennett, clash of civilizations, faith and politics, Khmer Rouge, Nazi Holocaust, neo-atheists, religious state, Samuel Huntington, Saudi Arabia, secular state, secular West, Stalin, theocracy, Tony Blair, Turkey
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
On Modern Manifestations of Water, Human Ingenuity and Manifest Destiny
In the ‘Middle East,’ host to a great number...
Tags: Ali Mossadegh, climate change, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gholam-Ali Mossadegh, Global Brief, Golan Heights, Headwater Diversion Plan, Hydropolitics, irrigation, Israël, Jordan, Jordan River, Kurdistan Worker’s Party, Middle East, Nile, North Africa, regional cooperation, Six-Day War of 1967, Southeast Anatolia Project, Syria, the International Water Association, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, the World Water Assessment Program of UNESCO, the World Water Council, Tigris-Euphrates, Turkey, Water Carrier, water dispute, water scarcity
A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers
Victor Hugo famously...
Tags: Afghanistan, African Union, Al-Shaybani, Arab states, Asia, Avicenna, Caucasus, Central Asia, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, democracy, Economic Cooperation Organization, economic development, European Court of Human Rights, European Union, fertile crescent, geopolitical strategy, Global Brief, Hirad Abtahi, human rights, Ibn Haiyan, International Criminal Court, Iran, Israël, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Khwarazmi, League of Arab States, Mediterranean Union, Middle East, NAFTA, Organization of American States, Pakistan, peace in the Middle East, regional court for human rights, regional security, rule of law, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road, strategic calculus, supranationalism, Treaty of Kadesh, Treaty of Paris, Turco-Persian agreements, Turkey, UN Charter, Union of South American Nations, Union: Union
