Plot thickens in great game over post-ISIS Iraq and Syria
M K Bhadrakumar | The post-ISIS future of Iraq and Syria has been a topic of animated discussion among American think tankers, the assumption being...
The Gulf crisis: Small states battle it out (SSRN Working Paper Part 1)
James M. Dorsey | Abstract Buried in the Gulf crisis is a major development likely to reshape international relations as well as power dynamics in the...
Disqualification without trial?
Saad Rasool | The three-member implementation bench of the honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan has reserved its judgment in perhaps the most publicized case in...
India’s hybrid warfare in Pakistan
Anam Sheikh | Hybrid warfare is a form of fourth generation warfare that is more decentralized, fluid and asymmetrical in its nature. One can say...
US moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict
James M. Dorsey | US President Donald J. Trump. in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilize Iran,...
US plan to (re)occupy Iraq faces resistance
M K Bhadrakumar | The US’s longstanding project to push for an independent Kurdistan in the oil-rich regions of northern Iraq and Syria in the...
Trump’s dictatorial travel ban to North Korea
Jacob G. Hornberger | Last Friday, President Trump issued a decree-law that prohibits Americans from traveling to North Korea. His justification for infringing on one...
Perhaps Khan was not a cricketer? Geo’s continuing love affair with IK
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Just as the Panama case reaches its culmination point, the future of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hangs in the balance....
Postmodernism: A Realm Beyond Renaissance Humanism
Nauman Sadiq | There is a fundamental difference between scientism, or the scientific worldview, which is an ideology based on unproven hypotheses and the empirically-proven...
How Envy Demotivates You From Becoming What You Want to Be
Heather Poole | Do you ever fall into the wormhole that is Instagram-stalking? You know what I’m talking about: you see a photo (perhaps someone you...
Don’t be surprised to see Trump bomb North Korea
Jacob G. Hornberger | After the in-your-face Fourth of July “gift” that North Korea delivered to President Trump in the form of an intercontinental ballistic...
Qatar scores, at least on the soccer pitch
James M. Dorsey | Qatar won more than a symbolic victory with a decision by European soccer body UEFA to award controversial television network Al Jazeera’s...