The Search for a Third Way: The Non-Aligned Movement, G77, and NIEO
Even since the end of the Cold War, the NAM summits have been taking place in countries that are particularly known as allies of Russia such as Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela.
Emerging Markets and Inflation: Why Is It Happening?
Read: Rising Prices and Political Instability in Lebanon, Iran and SudanDemand-pull inflation occurs when aggregate demand exceeds aggregate supply, and thus prices increase economy-wide.
The Pope and the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Show the Way Forward
The Iranian Revolution saw a major rift with the West and notably the U.
Abdul Qadeer Khan: Pakistani Nuclear Scientist Who Escaped Assassins, Built a Nuclear Bomb, and “Ate Grass”
He confessed to having supplied gas centrifuge components to Iran, Libya, and North Korea.
Pakistan and Afghanistan: Keeping India and the US at Bay
Read: Iran’s Joy Over the Taliban’s Victory in Afghanistan Will Be Short-LivedToday’s Pakistan once again is being blamed by the U.
Morocco’s Islamists Defeated: The Royal Palace and the People
Since 2011, when PJD Secretary General Abdelilah Benkirane was appointed head of government, and after his replacement by Saad Dine El Otmani in 2017, the PJD, which won all elections in this period except the latest one, has accepted all the royal cabinet’s diktats.
Erbil Conference on Normalization with Israel Stirs Debates
Read: Will the Biden Administration Continue Trump’s Abraham Accords Legacy?On the other hand, the relationship between Iraq and Israel is not strong due, among other reasons, to the influence of Iran, Israel’s archrival, in the country.
Environmental Activists Killed Exponentially Globally
Communications and Global Partnerships at Global Witness Miranda Brobeck spoke to EcoWatch about the recent report, by emphasizing the relationship between the climate crisis and the economic effects of the pandemic, and how it affects environmental activists.
Kurdish Mothers Resist the PKK and Fight to Get Their Children Back
He spent three years between Iran, Iraq, and Syria where he was deployed on multiple fronts to fight against DAESH.
Five Prominent Challenges for the Taliban
Iran and Russia, once amicable to the Taliban, now move in a different direction.
How Disinformation and Influence Operations Target Turkey
Similar campaigns occurred targeting Afghan refugees who arrived in Turkey crossing the border with Iran following the U.
Political Shiism and State-Building in Iraq: An Interview with Ali Taher El-Hammood
Shiites in the Islamic world have taken two paths politically: some have radically moved towards establishing an Islamic state, the best example of which is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
On Afghanistan and Legitimate Resistance: Should Hamas, Hezbollah Learn from the Taliban?
The latter category was eventually expanded to include Iraq, Iran and Syria.
Realpolitik vs. Idealpolitik: Turkey-Gulf Re-friending after a Decade-Long Rivalry
invasion of Iraq, which strengthened the Shiite position in the country, and the rising Iranian influence in the region had an important impact on their consideration of Turkey as a potential partner.
Sudan and Turkey Head towards Strategic Cooperation?
A series of normalization moves have taken place between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Egypt and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey and the UAE, and Turkey and Sudan, which would have been impossible a few months back.
Lebanon’s Specter of Civil War
Corruption mixed with Iran’s Lebanon proxy Hezbollah have gradually detached Lebanon from the financial safety net which the Gulf Arab states and the international community has always provided.
Al-Kadhimi’s Dashing Hopes: Regional Security Conference Held in Baghdad
Al-Kadhimi co-sponsored the conference in Baghdad with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the war in Yemen, Lebanon's collapse, the regional water crisis, and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.
Post-Islamism in the Muslim World
Yadullah Shahibzadeh is among those who have followed political Islam in Iran.
Morocco-Algeria: Looming Conflict
Read: Hostile Brothers: The Strained Morocco-Algeria Relations Only Serve to Destabilize North AfricaAlthough it is still not known if he did so with the approval of the Moroccan authorities, from Raba, Lapid criticized the “rapprochement with Iran” thus expressing the opposition of the Rabat-Tel Aviv axis to the supposed Algiers-Tehran axis.
It’s Time for the United States to Join the New Silk Road
Many of China’s showcase projects have been stymied or revamped in the face of well-organized protests from myriad local groups—tribes in Pakistan, fishermen in Indonesia, miners in Zambia, farmers in Myanmar, urban youth in Nigeria, shopkeepers in Iran, engineers in Mexico, and many others.
