Unrest in the Middle East, the Turkish response and the Turkish model
The recent uprising in several Middle Eastern countries has caught the West by surprise and has left it unsure about which course of action to take. For too long, the...
People, Power and Protest the Egyptian Revolution and the Arab World
People are making an alternative history while revolution is sweeping across the Arab world. Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011, the unfolding pre-democracy protests and uprisings...
Trump Rejects US Electoral System as Rigged if He’s Defeated
Final Debate Confirms Positions – strengths and weaknesses of Both Candidates: Trump Sets Stage for Refusal to Accept Election Result if he Loses The final US presidential debate confirmed what...
Be careful what you wish for: a tale of two prime ministers
David Cameron started his career as party leader with a simple wish: to get the Conservative Party to ‘stop banging on about Europe’. However, he did not have a strategy...
Santos got the Nobel Prize for not giving up on peace – here’s why all Colombians won
Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for...
Research Moves Closer to Carbon Capture Smokestack Solution
Carbon capture is the one back-end technology we have to make it possible to use fossil fuels to produce energy far into the future. You would think, therefore, that the...
Trump signals crisis of the US foreign policy establishment
Donald Trump's bid for the presidency and current position in the opinion polls is a crisis not only of the Republican party – the party of Lincoln – but also...
Is the G20 the Real Security Council?
Is the G20 the real Security Council? Over the past two days the heads of state and government of the G20 (Group of Twenty) top world economies met in Hangzhou...
What Happens When the Daily High Temperature Outside Exceeds 50 Celsius?
For those who only read temperatures in Fahrenheit, that’s 122 degrees. And that’s nothing when you compare it to some of the temperature readings this summer in the Middle East....
Decline and Fall 2016?
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not...
The 12th issue of Journal of Global Analysis is out now…
The 12th issue of JGA (Journal of Global Analysis) is out now... You may download the articles through its own website: http://journalofglobalanalysis.com/?page_id=17 VOLUME VI NO II - JULY 2016 TABLE OF...
Killing the Truth: The War on Reporters
How the Syrian conflict has redifined war reporting Is it the lives of those who capture the truth in war time or the truth itself that matters most? Cameras were...
Kurdish Cover Strategy in the Manbij Offensive and the fight for a united Rojava
Since the end of May 2016, Syrian Democratic Forces have started offensive to liberate the city of Manbij from the “Islamic State” militants and unite all the territories of the...
Brexit: Implications for Counter-terrorism
Brexit will have negative consequences for counter-terrorism in the UK and in the EU. The UK will lose the possibility of enjoying the advantages the EU provides in this field...
Iraq: The Strategic Lessons of Chilcot
“The danger is, as ever with these things, unintended consequences” Prime Minister Tony Blair, 2002 It is 12 volumes and 2.6 million words in length and took 7 years to...