Whither Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism?
James Dorsey analyses the structural societal and political obstacles to Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s professed desire to reform and modernise Saudi Arabia and place it on the path of an...
View Articleأردوغان تكلم أخيرا (Erdogan speaks, at last)
قلم منذر هنداوي بعد ثلاثة أيام من الترويج للخطاب المهم عن قضية الخاشقجي تكلم أردوغان، لكن دون أن يضيف شيئاً جديداً ذو أهمية بالمقارنة مع ما كان متداولاً و معروفا لمعظم المتابعين.
View ArticleSaudi Arabia and the West’s right wing: A dubious alliance
James Dorsey highlights Saudi Arabia’s courting of European far-right groups, including Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, the Danish People’s Party, the Swedish Democrats, and Europe of...
View ArticlePrince Muhammad’s Khashoggi bullet: An insight into Saudi strategic thinking
James Dorsey views Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s murderous strategy towards critics and highlights his efforts to use ties with Russia as leverage to ward off potential US pressure following...
View ArticleSaudis’ Yemeni headache won’t go away if and when the guns fall silent
James Dorsey says once the Saudi war on Yemen ends, the risk is of the emergence of a generation that has nothing to look forward to and nothing to lose – one that is likely to deeply resent what it...
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International law vs eternal recurrence: The US and Israel
Lawrence Davidson: "If Biden wants to promote a safer, more humane world under the rule of law, he should turn his attention to the assassin and not the assassinated; to the saboteur and not those...
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Listen: “The Iranian threat” – real or imagined?
Mohamed El-Doufani* writes Dr Farhang Jahanpour, an Iranian academic and journalist living in the UK, sheds light on the reasons for the chequered relations between Iran and the West, primarily the United
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Listen – Iran: Between conflict and stagnation
Mohamed El-Doufani writes: It’s hard to recall the last time we heard good news from Iran. But recent developments indicate that the country has entered a new stage in its struggle with
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Listen: Saudi and Gulf relations and influence in the Arab world
Dr James Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, analyses the relations between the Persian/Arab Gulf...
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The Five Minutes to Midnight Podcast
The Five Minutes to Midnight podcast explains intractable issues in international politics with in-depth insight and analysis from experts – journalists, academics and activists.
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