November 12, 2016

John Bolton for secretary of state

John Robert Bolton is the right person to take the helm of the State Department.  Donald Trump himself has praised Bolton and suggested him for the post.  Here I am going to tell you why his hunch was right, and why he must stay on that tra...

October 11, 2016

The Foreign Mess Awaiting the Next President

The 58th United States presidential election will arrive in 4 weeks, and emotions have never been more intense around the election of a U.S. president, at least not in the past couple of decades. Democrat and Republican rant and rave alike, daring Do...

May 1, 2016

The Collapsing State System and the Western Stake in the Middle East

The Westphalian System is a doctrine in international law that has been the generally accepted norm for the world order in the past couple of centuries. The basis of this doctrine is the Peace of Westphalia that put an end to the Thirty Years’ ...

April 15, 2016

What is a ‘Reformist’ in the Context of Iranian Politics?

When talking about politics in contemporary Iran, Western media tend to divide the Iranian political sphere into two distinct hemispheres, namely the “Reformists” and the “Hardliners.” In this division, the Reformists are supp...

October 18, 2015

The Historic Roots of Russian Expansionism in the Middle East

The Russian Federation’s flagrant military intervention in Syria is by no means an isolated incident.  This intervention comes as the result of a rather recent line in Moscow’s policy of expansionism that had previously manifested it...