Owing to its physical size (691 kms²), its proximity to the Persian Gulf littoral’s most aspiring actors (notably Saudi Arabia at 60 kms and Iran at 300 kms), and growing sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia’ communities, the Kingdom of...
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Iran’s December (2011) naval exercises and brash rhetoric (Admiral Habibollah Sayyari’s remarked that closing the Strait of Hormuz ‘will be easier than drinking a glass of water’) in response to new sanctions against Iran’s hydrocarbon exports,...
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Former Jewish guerrilla-turned-Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, reputedly remarked that the ‘darkest place is directly under the light.’ While the context of his observation was rooted in conducting a terrorist war of...
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Legitimacy; traditionally manifested in types of political...
Despite the self-gratifying need to describe the yet unfolding instability among the Arab states as the natural outcome of decades of dictatorial styles of governance or somehow hem them in as democratic movements which simultaneously combusted...
Chirac’s unmasked condescension to the signatories of the now infamous ‘letter of eight,’ was publically calculated to raise the ethical dimensions of French foreign policy as the US, UK and a coalition of the willing gathered in the...
Large segments of American international relations scholarship have become lost in the political quagmires presented by the post-Cold War period; after all this is a time when former ‘enemies' have been ‘rehabilitated' and become US...
2010 was an extremely challenging year for untold millions of people who experienced the full security impact of environmental disasters, ensuing militarised conflicts, food and potable water shortages, and a multitude of smaller, but no less...
Scholars of international relations (IR), divided as they are over the contours of the discipline, bear moral responsibility to, among other things, objectively and fairly present the unfolding nature of international affairs, the types and...
Of the many security issues currently facing the EU, none will have such wide-reaching implications to long-term EU security, and its ability to conduct its international affairs, as Obama’s accession to President of the US. Beyond the popular...
