Bigger role, fewer options: how Yemen’s crisis is testing China

In the Gulf, the In the Gulf, is still the dominant power, but Beijing is being urged to do more. Naval exercises, antenna construction, and Chinese-made missiles suggest that may already be happening

Charbel Barakat

The Twilight of German Conservatism

Much ink has been spilled on the collapse of European social democracy, and Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) provides a perfect case study. Once a proud political heavyweight that raked in…

Georg Diaz

A Blow to China’s Soft Power

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an enormous international investment project touted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, was supposed to establish Chinese soft power. Since late 2013, Beijing has…

Christopher Balding 

Full Steam Ahead on Iran Sanctions

New American sanctions were leveled against Iran this week. On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that Tehran’s “Basic Resistance Force” — an affiliate of the IRGC — together with 22…

Joseph Braude

Ashmawy Awaits his Fate

A national security source in Cairo has revealed to Majalla that the Egyptian terrorist Hesham Ashmawy is a graduate of a special unit force within the Muslim Brotherhood, a group he joined in 2012…

Abdelsattar Heteita