James Denselow is director of the New Diplomacy Platform and a Middle East Security Analyst based at King's College London.

The Stateless Statesmen

[caption id="attachment_55239744" align="alignnone" width="620"] A birds-eye view of the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous…

Remembering Halabja

[caption id="attachment_55239488" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Kurdish family have their photo taken in front of a tank used during the Saddam…

Accountability in Syria

[caption id="attachment_55238461" align="alignnone" width="620"] UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay speaks on September 17, 2012 before a…

Scenarios for Syria

[caption id="attachment_55232748" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Fighters loyal to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) pose with their weapons in a location…

A League Apart

[caption id="attachment_55229256" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The Arab League in session"][/caption] Multilateral bodies such as the…

Bartering over Iraq's Future

[caption id="attachment_55250238" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi man reads a local newspaper the day after results revealed that Iraqi Prime…