China taking climate action through the market at home
Many saw Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to skip the upcoming “Climate Summit 2014” in New York as a blow to hopes that the...
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The Emerging Dubai Gateway to Africa
When Jeffrey Singer, former President of the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), sat down with senior Dubai-based executives...
What Abe and Modi need from each other
This is a re-post from a separate article at Quartz. The six million followers of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have been...
What Is Iraqi Prime Minister-Designate Haider Al-Abadi’s Plan for Iraq?
In his first press conference, Iraqi Prime Minister-Designate Haider Al-Abadi laid out his agenda and the challenges ahead of him as he...
Why Liberals Should Love Israel
This is a re-post of an article in "On Faith." Israel is less popular on the left of the political spectrum than on the right. A new Pew...
What Do You Know About Sistani's Fatwa?
This article has been re-posted from the Huffington Post. Before the security collapse in Mosul, the conventional wisdom among Iraq...
Bad Habits of ‘International Speak’
This article is reposted from Le Monde Diplomatique. Ask Edward St. Aubyn, the author of the highly acclaimed Melrose novels, and he will...
Commentary: Lebanon and the Regional Chess Game
As I write this from Beirut, Lebanon, the city is on high alert as the Lebanese army has set up check points across the country following...
China’s New Commitments in Africa
Appealing to hearts and minds in Africa on his recent visit (May 2014), Chinese premier Li Keqiang pledged that his country would boost...
Can India-Pakistan Relations Enter a "New Era" under Prime Minister Modi?
Even without the extreme danger that terrorism poses to both countries, Indo-Pak engagement makes sense. A shared border, common history...
Political Dynamics Impacting Oil Dispute in Iraq
The dispute over who controls oil in Iraq reflects internal Iraqi divisions that are about more than control over oil revenue. It is...
Russia-China Gas Deal a Sign of Russian Weakness, Not New Alliance
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s May 20-21 visit to China, which culminated in the signing of a 30-year, $400 billion gas deal, offered...
Modi’s New ‘Quadrilateral’ Foreign Policy
After a resounding win in the just-concluded parliamentary elections, Narendra Modi has been sworn-in as India’s fifteenth prime...
On Women’s Liberty
The best-selling single of 2013 was “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, clocking sales of more than 1.47 million copies. It has a catchy...
Women Who Inspire
For more than a century, March 8 has been celebrated as "Women's Day". In over a hundred countries spanning all parts of the globe,...
Secretary Kerry in Asia –Looking for Love in the Wrong Places
John Kerry brings home some successes from his just-concluded fifth visit to East Asia as Secretary of State—this time around to Seoul,...
A War in Images-- Robert Nickelsberg's Afghanistan
The Foreign Policy Institute hosted veteran photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg for his book talk here in Washington, DC. Nickelsberg’s...
An Alternative Middle Eastern Order: Call for Turkey
The Middle East is getting through a painful and chaotic phase of transformation. In yet another try towards normalization, the region...
U.S. Strategy and Regional Trends in South Asia
The visit of the Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to the White House this week reminds us of the diplomatic minuet that...
Second Term Presidents
One of the enduring features of American political history is the phenomenon that second-term presidents are declared to be dead or...
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