DEREK BARRY
Francis Fukuyama’s 1992 book The End of History and The Last Man was misinterpreted as a triumph for democracy in the wake of the fall of western communism. It was therefore easy to laugh at him being hopelessly wrong as the New World Order collapsed in the late 1990s and new enemies appeared to replace old bugbears.
UNTRUTHS ABOUT TURKEY HURT DIPLOMACY
ORRIN FORD
Rick Perry said Turkey should be expelled from NATO, and he called Turkist leaders “Islamic Terrorists.”
IRAN, SYRIA AND IRAQ: TURKEY’S CHALLENGING TRIANGLE?
IDREES MOHAMMED
Turkey is facing a difficult period with respect to ties with its triangle of neighbors: Iran, Syria and Iraq. Their current domestic situations and foreign policies are now endangering Turkey’s own domestic stability and foreign policy.
A TALE OF PALESTINIAN NONSENSE BY BARRY SHAW
BARRY SHAW
The world has bought into the Palestinian narrative of victimhood to the extent that, for decades, it has thrown billions of dollars into a lie.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD’S OPPONENTS ARE FLOWING TO KURDISTAN
ABDULLA HAWEZ
Lately, Iraqi Kurdistan has witnessed vital political activity, starting from Burhan Ghalioun, chairman of the Syrian National Council (SNC)’s visit to Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese prominent druze leader, to Samir Geagea, from Lebanese opposition bloc, to Turkey’s deputy foreign minister, Feridun Sinirlioglu.
WHO WANTS TO KILL A MILLION?
YORIKIRII
In my ongoing series on nonviolent forms of protest, I today want to shed a light on Masasit Mati from Syria.
ENDING THE PALESTINIAN “RIGHT OF RETURN”
DANIEL PIPES
Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship.
WHAT HAVE WE TRADED HUMANITY FOR? –SYRIA
KIMBERLY JONES
I have been told that our behavior is reflective of an expected outcome. If we aren’t getting adequate attention as a child, we might act out in order to receive the attention we desire.
US WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?
IRAM RAMZAN
In the run up to the invasion of Iraq, The Sun ran the headline: ‘Brits 45 mins from doom”. Other newspapers echoed the sentiments. Saddam Hussein, it was claimed, did have weapons of mass destruction and was prepared to use them.
WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN IRAQ?
ABDULLA HAWEZ
The recent tension in Baghdad between Nouri Al-Maliki’s Shiite Iraqi prime minister with both Iraqi president’s deputy Tariq Al-Hashimi, and his deputy for service affairs, Salih Mutlaq, which both are Sunnis is highly connected with the regional tension between Iran and Turkey on Syria, also the timing is connected
OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY IN A BRIEF : THE PRESIDENT AS TURKEY
BARRY RUBIN
On October 5, 1938, Winston Churchill said in the House of Commons, regarding the Munich agreement in which Britain and France forced Czechoslovakia to cede the strategic Sudetenland to Germany, leading a few months later to that country’s extinction and a year later to World War Two.
EXPATRIES IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA : A TALE OF MODERN DAY SLAVERY
BEVIN KURIAN
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attracts a vast number of migrant workers who comes in search of higher income and a better lifestyle but unfortunately, a majority of them gets trapped under the evils of domestic abuse, torture, unfair trials, and forced confessions of alleged crimes and trafficking.