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As September 2016 dawns, there are a number of important developments in the Middle East that dominate the region’s politics. These include:&nbs
Read More »1. INTRODUCTION: FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS “Prior to September 11, 2001, Hezbollah was responsible for more American deaths than any other te
Read More »Iran’s eleventh presidential election, to be held in June 2013, will be highly determinant both for the future of the country and the political
Read More »According to an expert in geopolitics Praker Bandimutt, at the beginning of the 21st century, the old adage about the role of NATO in Europe should be
Read More »Ever since the establishment of full diplomatic relations in January 1992, the Indo-Israeli ties have witnessed a tremendous growth. Most of this has
Read More »Introduction The Arab Spring has not been a uniform development in the Arab world, even though it has had a contagious nature. One successful exper
Read More »Introduction In 1935 Lieutenant-Colonel Hodgen, the British political agent in Kuwait, wrote to the British Foreign Office about a new and popular fo
Read More »[Note: The article was originally written in 2005 and was published in the Winter 2006 issue of Mediterranean Quarterly. In the light of the ongoing d
Read More »It may be recalled that one major pillar on which the non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS) signatories to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), espe
Read More »On 23 September 1973, King Hussein Bin Talal of Jordan sent a message requesting an urgent meeting with Israel\'s Prime Minister Golda Meir. The reque
Read More »In recent decades, the study of each other\'s culture and the like has been a rapidly developing field in both Israel and China. A number of universit
Read More »It is part of the writer’s role to point out the drift of his or her own people and to help open their eyes to what blinds them. I insist, as th
Read More »China has been cultivating Iran as a major partner in the Persian Gulf since the early 1990s. Gaining greater access to Iran’s oil and gas resou
Read More »Key Positions Russia is deceiving the West in its support for the latest round of UNSC sanctions against Iran. Russia continues to e
Read More »The establishment of full diplomatic relations with Israel in January 1992 marked a new beginning in India’s Middle East policy. This was its mo
Read More »India, and before independence the Indian National Congress, had an extraordinarily long virtual alliance (1919-91) with the Arab states of the Middle
Read More »There is no doubt that ‘regime security’ is deemed as one of the prominent common concerns for the eight Persian Gulf states along with ot
Read More »I open my discussion with two quotations. The first passage is taken from a comprehensive interview with Mohsem Kadivar, one of the main religious spe
Read More »The South Caucasus republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia – like Turkey – are members of the Council of Europe and, with exception
Read More »The Provisional State Council of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine on 14 May 1948 declared the independence of a Jewi
Read More »I have always contemplated – why do we, the Shias, misunderstand Baha’ism or why they, the Baha’is, prefer to keep their distan
Read More »Peace education in regions of intractable conflict – very much like human rights programmes, anti-racism and tolerance education programmes &nda
Read More »The term “Great Powers” may seem an anachronism in our times. In the post-Cold war era, few nations can stake claim to playing an equally
Read More »China signed a deal with Israel in 1996 to acquire the Phalcon Airborne Early Warning (AEW) system. Instead of this transaction being carried out as a
Read More »Inaugural Address: India and GCC Countries, Iran and Iraq By M Hamid Ansari His Excellency the Vice-President of India [Note: This
Read More »United Nations* [Note: In recent years the historic nomenclature ‘Persian Gulf’ has been contested by the Arab countries which at tim
Read More »UN Secretary-General Report on Lebanon, November 2010 by United Nations [Note: The impending conclusion and release of the findings of
Read More »Like the rest of the world, the Middle East is a heterogeneous region and comprises numerous ethnic, national, religious and linguistic societies, gro
Read More »For over eighty years, Ibrahim al-Arrayad served as one of Bahrain’s leading intellectual figures. The son of an Iraqi mother and a Bahraini pea
Read More »Just as it seemed that Egyptian mediation efforts had succeeded in bringing about an agreement between the two rival Palestinian factions – Hama
Read More »China continued its traditional approach of balancing between Washington and Tehran as the diplomatic confrontation over Iran’s nuclear activiti
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