Children of the Arab Spring
Last week the image of a four year- old Syrian girl, holding her hands up in surrender to a reporter’s camera,…
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Syria: Rising Factionalization of the Assad Camp – by Konstantin Born
Syria will soon enter the fourth year of an internal conflict that has been raging since unrest began in March 2011…
ISIL’s Second Source of Funding: Smuggled Antiquities
It is no secret that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) makes about $1 million per day selling petrol…
Qatar’s Niche Foreign Policy
Throughout history, the normative concept of states evolved and in the modern era statehood is granted through …
Why Turkey Refuses to Join the War Against IS
On September 20th, the world was greeted with a rare piece of good news in the ongoing Islamic State (IS) crisis in…
Has “Zero Problems with Neighbours” Failed?
The current crisis in Syria has seen a largely inconsistent and vacillating foreign policy response from Turkey.…
Syria and Broader Trends in International Diplomacy: Part 2, Russia
The Obama administration's drastic shift in US foreign policy in a post-Iraq War world order has already been…
Syria and Broader Trends in International Diplomacy: Part 1, The United States
The agreement reached in Geneva on 14 September between Russia and the United States over the Syrian…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 3: Repression and Civil War
The civil war in Syria highlights the more vicious and destabilizing aspects of the Arab Spring. In Tunisia,…
Syria and the Tehran Street: Rouhani and Iran’s New Foreign Policy
The recent standoff between Western powers and the Gulf Cooperation Council against the Assad regime’s…