Asia
McCain is Playing Chicken With Baghdad
According to the Iraq Press Agency, the head of the Iraqi parliamentary bloc Irada, Hannan al-Fetlaui stated that up to 100,00 foreign troops are headed to Iraq. Up to 90,000 are going to be sent by the Arab and Gulf States to Iraq to fight the Islamic State...
A Sultanate of Kitsch: The Gezi Park Protests, Islamic Revival and Ottoman Nostalgia
The world is now taking notice of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (or AKP and its policies towards neighbouring Syria and Iraq, as well as its attempt to wrestle with...
Could the DPRK Abandon Its Nuclear Program?
I am frequently asked in interviews whether North Korea can abandon its nuclear program and what Russia thinks about it. Recently, these questions have become even more frequent for two reasons. First, the South made the latest in a series of “ambitious...
