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Ending Iraq’s Humanitarian Crisis
By Alon Ben-MeirThe Iraqi people must rise above sectarianism and chart their own destiny.Iraq, once the cradle of civilization, has and continues to experience one of the most horrific violent...
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Toward Kurdish Independence?
By James M. DorseyThe Kurds' quest for self-rule is potentially explosive. It puts them in the crosshairs of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Russia and the United States.If Myanmar’s Rohingya are the 21st...
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Will There Be a Kurdish State?
By Andrés OrtegaTerrorism, oil, the crisis in Iraq, the Syrian civil war and geopolitics all weigh against the birth of a new Kurdish state.The Kurds have been scourged by history (as well as by...
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The Kurdish, Iran, Iraq and US Quadrangle
By James M. DorseyKurdish battle positions Kurds as US ally against Iran.The Kurds may currently be licking their wounds and venting anger over deep-seated internal divisions that facilitated the...
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The US and Iran: Between Obsession and Forgetfulness
By Stephan RichterThe Trump Administration's obsession with the Iran nuclear deal cannot obscure the U.S. role in strengthening Iran.While the Middle East has been in turmoil for a long time, the Trump...
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Transition in the Middle East: Transition to What?
By James M. DorseyIn the Middle East and North Africa, the transition toward equitable economic development and transparent and accountable rule of law will take a very long time.Transition is the name...
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Iraq on the Mend?
By James M. DorseyIn the upcoming Iraqi election, Sunni Muslims may emerge with a sense of being part of Iraq’s political process and future.The Iraqi elections taking place on May 12 could shape the...
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Kurds in Iraq
By The GlobalistIn today's Iraq, when one faction rolls in, another rolls out.1. In Iraq, some six million Kurds comprise roughly 15-20% of the population. 2. Kurds are an ethnic group within Iraq and...
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Firsts in 2010
By The GlobalistWhat "firsts" in economics, politics, technology and demographics occurred in 2010?After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter of 2010 to become...
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The Killing of Qassem Soleimani: The US Misreads the Tea Leaves
By James M. DorseyThe killing of Mr. Soleimani is bound to boost the hardliners in Tehran who are now expected to win next month’s Iranian parliamentary election.The killing of Iranian military leader...
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Middle East: Ever More Unstable
By Alon Ben-MeirA review of seven Mideast conflicts, each one ever more intractable.Unless some drastic measures are taken, the various conflicts in the Middle East will become ever more intractable...
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Iran Plays Chess, the US Backgammon
By James M. DorseyThe moves on the Iraqi gameboard show that when it comes to warfare, military strategy and conflict management, Iran plays chess while the US plays backgammon.Iranians play chess,...
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Coronavirus and the Middle East
By James M. DorseyLessons not learned and opportunities missed: A roadmap to political and societal dysfunction.There is little indication that Middle Eastern rulers are learning the lessons of the...
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In Memoriam David Graeber: How Debt Has Come to Shape Humanity
By David GraeberOver the last 5,000 years, what has made the concept of debt so strangely powerful?Consumer debt is the life-blood of our economy. All modern nation-states are built on deficit...
View ArticleGermany’s Kurds
1. Nearly 1% of the population of Germany – more than 600,000 people – is ethnically Kurdish. 2. Kurds were the largest ethnicity among refugees to Germany prior to the recent wave of Middle Eastern...
View ArticleTrouble in Northwestern Iran
1. Iran’s four million Kurds populate a mountainous northwestern region of the country. 2. Accounting for 10% of Iran’s population, they have long harbored separatist tendencies like their peers in the...
View ArticleAleppo-Gaza-Baghdad: Inconvenient Truth, Inconvenient Parallels
The Russian-Syrian bombing campaign in eastern Aleppo, which has ended at least for the time being, has been described in press reports and op-eds as though it were unique in modern military history in...
View ArticleIs Saudi Arabia Getting Unmoored?
A stalemate in efforts to determine what happened to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is threatening to escalate into a crisis that could usher in a new era in relations between the United States and...
View ArticleThe Iranian People and Their Many Wars
The assassination of Qassem Soleimani by the United States, and the Iranian retaliatory attack on two U.S. bases in Iraq renewed the prospect of a deadly shooting war with irreparable consequences...
View ArticleUS: Police Systematically Out of Control
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on December 2, 2014. We republish it today in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 5, to underscore how...
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