My name is Donald J. Trump, and I have just decided that global trade will now operate under my personal guarantee. You’re ...

Maajid Nawaz, once deep inside the Islamist machine, described the perfect weapon with chilling clarity. Whenever the West ...

As the war in the Middle East further intensifies, Iran appears to be recalibrating its strategy around the region’s most critical commodity: energy. By ...

I choose to connect my future to a society where higher standards in public and institutional life are still genuinely upheld ...

It has been evident that the diplomatic track long used to manage tensions between Washington and Tehran had reached its ...

The South Caucasus is once again confronting a rapidly deteriorating security environment as major geopolitical rivalries unfold on its borders. To the north, ...

The war waged by the USA and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran is a game-changer, not only for the Middle East but ...

Agamemnon’s fleet can’t set sail to Troy without sacrificing his own daughter for the winds to blow. Even the heroic Achilles can’t save Iphigenia, with his own greedy troops disobeying him. A Greek ...

The ancient Greeks had the decency to admit something we modern people still struggle with: time is not one thing. They gave it different names because they understood that not all time feels the same ...

History in the Middle East rarely begins where modern analysts think it does. Most discussions of geopolitics start with the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, ...

Some leaders build bridges. Others build industry. And then there’s Ursula von der Leyen: specialising in turning off gas taps while simultaneously declaring ...

Joint US-Israeli strikes that resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, followed by the behind-the-scenes election of his son ...