What stands in the way of Iran and the US cooperating openly to meet twin threats of Sunni extremism and state failure is any failure to resolve the nuclear deadlock.
Intelligence experts tend to agree that it is better to decentralize intelligence bodies, so that no one agency has access to too much power. Has the US taken this too far?
It is now the US shift in institutional power that is threatening the process and undermining the President’s efforts.
Islamophobia does not result from a specific strategy to create the ideal scapegoat, but Muslims came in opportunely to fulfil this function within ultra-liberal European societies.
Decades of energy colonialism in the Middle East come face to face with a democratic challenge in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan).
When much of the world pays no lip service to democratic values, it would be a great disaster if countries in the heart of Europe were to turn away.
National security entrusted to the market's private military and security companies can only address the symptoms, not the causes, of war and insecurity. Interview.
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: A Syrian fearing exile and return.
The blame game allows these commonly quite similar parties in practice to distinguish themselves from each other in rhetoric.
