Twenty-Five Years Since the First Gulf War (Fall 2015)
Game-Changer: Oil Trends and Geopolitics
A healthy body of policy practitioners and market analysts, and even a few scholars, have always recognized the nexus between politics, oil, and geopolitics...
Israel-GCC Ties
How does one write 2,000 words about links between Israel and the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which no official of...
“Nothing Has Happened That We Can’t Fix”
inFOCUS: Was the First Gulf War the peak of the Reagan Revolution? We had Reagan's foreign policy and the defense buildup in the 1980s,...
Gulf War Established Pattern in U.S.-Israel Relations
We watched as the Iraqi Scud missile passed high over our heads in Jerusalem during the Gulf War. I won the squad's bet after...
Sino-Gulf Relations: From Energy to Strategic Partners
Energy policy is typically viewed as the nexus of China's booming relations with Persian Gulf countries. China's energy security is linked directly to its...
Russia and Saudi Arabia: Bridging the Gulf
In late March 2015, Jamal al-Khashoggi, a well-connected Saudi journalist, wrote that Saudi Arabia could no longer bear Iran's policy of regional expansion and...
Minorities in the Muslim World
How does Islam understand the concept of non-Muslims or "different" Muslims? Do Sunnis believe non-Sunni Muslims have rights equal to Sunnis? Is there one...
Tehran’s Strategy: Isolating and Bypassing Israel
In the course of the past thirty-six years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has demonstrated a curious mixture of ideological zeal and pragmatism in...
Balkan Ghosts
How Do You Divide Up the Past?
Why go back and read a book whose locus is outside the Middle East/Persian Gulf region and written...
