In the 1970’s Henry Kissinger argued that the goal of America’s Middle Eastern policy was to persuade the Arabs that the road to peace ran through...
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Power in the 21st century
What’s Love Got to Do With It? Building a Different Middle East / Gilles Kepel
Over the last several months, there have been a series of extraordinary developments in the Middle East that could have almost as big an impact on...
India’s Back to the Future Moment?
India has always been difficult for non-Indians to understand, maybe for many Indians as well. Sheer size and diversity make governance, never mind...
Is India Back? / Milan Vaishnav
India had the world's largest economy until the 17th century but suffered almost 500 years of decline afterward. However, India is currently the...
Masters Of War
Sudan is at war with itself. Since the 2019 uprising that booted Omar al-Bashir from office after thirty years, the country has experienced more...
Now for Something Completely Different
We live in a bipolar world: United States and Europe on one side; China and Russia on the other. And everyone else is expected to choose one or the...
Rising China Plants a Flag in the Middle East / Yasmine Farouk
Yasmine Farouk discusses the impact of China’s mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran on the Middle East and beyond. Early last month, there was an...
More to Fear than Fear Itself: Does the West really want to win in Ukraine?
Russia’s war on Ukraine has metastasized into a brutal war of attrition. Anna Wieslander, Swedish defense and security expert, clearly worries that...
Is This Any Way to Run a War? / Anna Wieslander
Anna Wieslander has had the temerity to point out that the West has no strategy to end the war in Ukraine. Listen as host Alan Stoga...