Published on November 5th, 2016 | by Guest
by Walden Bello Just into his fourth month as head of state, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has managed to become one of the most controversial actors on the global stage, rivaling if not eclipsing ... Read More →
Published on November 4th, 2016 | by Eldar Mamedov
by Eldar Mamedov As Iran watchers in Washington brace for a more hawkish new US administration, the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a conference on October 31 on a subject that continues to bedevil US-Iran relations: the ... Read More →
Published on November 4th, 2016 | by Guest
by Joshua Kucera Azerbaijan must make legislative changes within four months that expand rights for local civil society organizations, or risk losing billions of dollars in loans it needs to build a key gas pipeline. The ... Read More →
Published on November 3rd, 2016 | by Peter Jenkins
by Peter Jenkins On October 21, 2016 the Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a substantive assessment of Iran’s foreign and defense policies. For the most part this research meets the high standards of accuracy and objectivity ... Read More →
Published on November 3rd, 2016 | by Guest
by John Limbert What is it about Harvard that impels its people to produce pseudo-scholarly non-facts about Iran? Four years ago a presidential candidate and graduate of the Harvard Business School claimed that Iran needed its alliance ... Read More →
Published on November 3rd, 2016 | by John Feffer
by John Feffer Much has been made of the swing in political allegiances of neoconservatives in favor of Hillary Clinton. As a group, Washington’s neocons are generally terrified of Trump’s unpredictability and his flirtation with the ... Read More →
Published on November 2nd, 2016 | by Guest
by Paul R. Pillar The so-called Islamic State or ISIS is on the decline, and its “caliphate” on the ground in Iraq and Syria is shrinking to extinction. In Syria, the group has lost about a ... Read More →
Published on November 2nd, 2016 | by Giorgio Cafiero
by Giorgio Cafiero Unsettled by years of expanded and consolidated Iranian influence across the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and its regional allies launched a war in Yemen last March to crush a Zaidi Houthi rebellion. Yet ... Read More →
