[escenic_image id="555182"]By now it should be clear that the “de-coupling” of the global economy, far from the whimsy of radical salon economists,…

[escenic_image id="556218"]Democracy is not a thing of beauty.  It is messy, loud, and chaotic.  It is always and everywhere imperfect and incomplete…

[escenic_image id="554897"]Exactly 30 years after its creation, the Islamic Republic of Iran faces an unprecedented existential crisis.  Its…

[escenic_image id="554874"]For millennia, the Arabian Sea has served as an active link between the Indian subcontinent and the Gulf region. India’s…

[escenic_image id="554923"]For those who are committed to the rhetoric of “winners” and “losers”, the Lebanese elections are quite straight forward…

[escenic_image id="554927"]If a really close friend advises buying shares in a company without offering any other details, a good investor would…

[escenic_image id="556216"]On July 5 violence broke out in the Western Xinjiang Autonomous Region, a province in the West of China. Over the next few…

[escenic_image id="554915"]The Lebanese parliamentary elections ended more than a month ago, and today the Lebanese people are going through another…

[escenic_image id="554851"] By Robert Kagan The book applauds American hegemony, not only that, it also acknowledges its necessity to stabilize the…

[escenic_image id="554918"] By Nicholas Schmidle Nicholas Schmidle, journalist and Fellow at the New American Foundation, went to Pakistan.  He…