Two initiatives send the clearest signal, yet, that China may be gearing up to play a greater political role in the Middle East. Touring the region th
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Demonstrating for the third week their determination to force the country’s military to return to its barracks, protesters in Myanmar appear to be lea
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Think the Muslim world is united in opposing Islamophobia? Think twice. Rising anti-Muslim sentiment in countries like China, Myanmar, and India as
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A decade of anti-government protests in the Arab world have thrown popular trust in the military into the garbage bin and undermined the military’s p
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed four cases of the new deadly coronavirus. On 29 January 2020, the UAE’s Ministry of Health and Communi
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Many in Asia look at the Middle East with a mixture of expectation of stable energy supplies, hope for economic opportunity and concern about a pote
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It is a difficult task to explain everything about the Middle East in a short article. So what I am going to do is to present an important, yet somet
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The name of the game is power politics. France was a major presence in the Middle East following the First World War, but has been on the retreat eve
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The year 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the Irish Easter Rebellion. Throughout the year I will try to revisit some of the lessons of Ireland’s strug
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Confronting Challenges Israel is actively involved in three different protracted conflicts – or more accurately competitions – that manifest the coll
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