[escenic_image id="5533397"]When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to the Persian Gulf in February, high on her list of priorities was gaining support for a new round of sanctions…

[escenic_image id="5533402"]Dr Rob Sobhani is a business consultant who specializes in corporate and government relations, and is the President and founder of Caspian Energy Consulting, a firm that…

Over the last year, Yemen caught the attention of Gulf countries and Western countries alike. In the debate around why the situation in the southern Gulf country has deteriorated to this point, two…

[escenic_image id="5530647"]Daniel Brumberg is acting director of the United States Institute of Peace’s Muslim World Initiative. Brumberg is also an associate professor at Georgetown university and…

[escenic_image id="5530513"]Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb places some of the most morbid Cold War-era nuclear fears and…

[escenic_image id="5530504"]Sitting in his spacious Riyadh office, Khalid Al Khudair smiled as he recalled how “everyone laughed” when he started building Al Yamamah University on the desert…

[escenic_image id="5530494"]Robert Stephen Ford, the next US ambassador to Syria following a five-year absence, is “an avid reader of history and a diplomat.” That’s how he describes himself in his…

[escenic_image id="5527696"]Anybody trying to understand where Turkey is going could do worse than to visit the home province of its mould-breaking new foreign minister. Back in 1959, when Ahmet…

[escenic_image id="5526392"] ISTANBUL : With the confrontation between Iran and the US heating up, Glyn Davies enjoys front-row involvement in often frantic behind-the-scenes diplomacy at the…

Much has been written about the effectiveness of international economic sanctions. After World War II, the official policy of racial segregation in South Africa led to the increasing international…