by Brad Cabana
It has been just over a month since Russia took the military initiative in Syria. Along with fifty plus combat aircraft and helicopter gunships, Russian naval ships Moskva, Ladny, Pytlivy and Smetlivy…
by Soumaya Ghannoushi
Sunni Islam is in turmoil. Over the last two decades, it has been in the grip of ferment and fragmentation unprecedented in its long history. After the wave of radicalisation that had swept…
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By Saeed Rahnema
Netanyahu did have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, disgraced former Iranian President, who with the support of Khamenei,…
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by Pepe Escobar
So what is the Obama administration really up to in Iran? What sort of strategic calculations have led to…
by Ben McPherson
With the United States adding one of Gazprom's biggest gas fields to its Russian sanctions blacklist, the Russian gas giant’s woes have been aggravated. The future of its numerous global pipeline projects could…
by Madalina Sisu Vicari
Over the past weeks, it was reported that the Russian authorities would consider the possibility of allowing other companies than Gazprom to export natural gas. Recently, this information has been taken…
by Anna Stavrianakis
Anna Stavrianakis critiques nation-centric theories that dominate International Relations as a discipline, as well as offering newer ways of studying the arms trade and emphasising the need for a more global approach.
September 2015, ExCel Centre,…
by Alexandre Barray
On February 11, 2015, a summit was held for the second time in Minsk to bring a solution to the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and government forces. Leaders…
by Marc Pierini
Only a few weeks ago, the al-Assad regime seemed in danger of losing the swath of land from Latakia to Damascus to the assaults of the Islamic State of Iraq and the…
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by Lawrence S. Wittner
In the aftermath of the Iranian government’s agreement to comply with the treaty, Lawrence Wittner asks: would it…