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U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal: The Need for a Regional Perspective

POMEAS OP-ED, 20 March 2015 When the Obama administration's ground-breaking effort to carve out a nuclear deal was in its initial phases,...

Is the Whole World on Fire?

This is a repost from www.fpri.org. “I am a very old man, and I have lived through almost the entire century,” wrote Isaiah Berlin in his...

Is the advent of ISIS inevitable or reactionary?

Executive summary of a speech given in a seminar at the House of Commons, London 20 November 2014. *Emirhan Yorulmazlar Whether the...

Commentary: Lebanon and the Regional Chess Game

As I write this from Beirut, Lebanon, the city is on high alert as the Lebanese army has set up check points across the country following...

Political Dynamics Impacting Oil Dispute in Iraq

The dispute over who controls oil in Iraq reflects internal Iraqi divisions that are about more than control over oil revenue. It is...

On Women’s Liberty

The best-selling single of 2013 was “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, clocking sales of more than 1.47 million copies. It has a catchy...

Secretary Kerry in Asia –Looking for Love in the Wrong Places

John Kerry brings home some successes from his just-concluded fifth visit to East Asia as Secretary of State—this time around to Seoul,...

An Alternative Middle Eastern Order: Call for Turkey

The Middle East is getting through a painful and chaotic phase of transformation. In yet another try towards normalization, the region...

The Fight Against ISIS: Mistrust Cannot be the Cure for the Extremist Disease

On Saturday President Obama called his Turkish counterpart President Erdoğan to discuss the details of both countries’ cooperation...