At War Against Islam
By Ghali Hassan | 02 October 2010 As usual, this year’s commemoration of the 9/11 attacks is marked by hate of Muslims and Islam. From New York to Florida in the U.S....
Neo-Cons, having Declared History’s End, Try to Reclaim the Past
Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 21 September 2010 Having declared that History ended around 1989, it seems that some neo-conservatives are keen also to reclaim aspects of History as 'their' achievement....
Culture, Epistemology and Foreign Policy: An Alternative Reading of U.S.-Turkish Relations Within the Context of the Middle East
By Dr. H. Akın Ünver | 17 september 2010 Turkish-American relations have always been defined as a 'strategic partnership'. Almost without exception, decision-makers and diplomats at the highest levels point...
New Dynamics of Turkish Politics
By Dr. Ibrahim Kalin | 14 September 2010 With nascent constitutional reforms, the Turkish political landscape has undergone a major process of 'terraforming'. On September 12, 2010, exactly thirty years after...
“What Soviet Threat?” What If Attlee’s Radicalism Had Prevailed?
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 28 August 2010 Although British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee (1945-51), is properly known as a Cold Warrior no less gung-ho than his Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin,...
Why All Middle Eastern Politics Can’t Be Reduced Merely to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Barry Rubin | 16 August 2010 I simply cannot comprehend why so many in the West refuse to see that Arabs can be revolutionaries. It is remarkable that so many...
Afghan Intel War Leaks And After
By Shahid R. Siddiqi | 15 August 2010 Washington uses inaccurate WikiLeaks Intel to whip Pakistan military and ISI and deflect attention from its own failures and excesses. WikiLeaks founder, Julian...
Clement Attlee, David Cameron and the Special Relationship With India
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 13 August 2010 British Prime Minister David Cameron recently declared his wish to build – or rather renew – Britain's 'special relationship' with India. The likelihood...
The US in Costa Rica: the price of Latin American exceptionalism?
By Dr. Guy Burton | 11 August 2010 During the current Venezuela-Colombia spat, one particular comment by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, was particularly striking – although not necessarily for the...
Anglo-American Relations: The Special Relationship Marches On
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 01 August 2010 Even as British leaders, and the media, proclaim the imminent death of the 'special relationship' with the United States, they cannot seem to...
Presidents and Their Generals: A Conversation with Eliot Cohen
By Eliot Cohen | 10 August 2010 AI: Let's start with the Stanley McChrystal episode. What's your take on this? Why did the general act with such inexplicable tactlessness? Did President Obama,...
Can You Handle The Truth?: Poll Shows The Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion
By Prof. Barry Rubin | 08 August 2010 This is one of those stories about the Middle East that is totally amazing but not the least bit surprising. What, you ask,...
Children of a Lesser God
Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 30 July 2010 All men may well be born equal but their deaths certainly betray huge inequalities. A month or so ago (24 June, to be precise), Michael...
The Electrical Workers Union versus President Calderon: Class, Struggle, Repression and the Rise of Narco-Power
By James Petras | 28 July 2010 "We are confronting a monster; a force that ridicules, deceives and wants to destroy us". - Miguel Angel Ibara, member of the Mexican Electrical Workers...
A New Low for Colombian-Venezuelan Relations?
By Dr. Guy Burton | 26 July 2010 Relations between Colombia and Venezuela appear to have hit a new low. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed by Venezuela's government following...