James M. DorseyJun 84 minThe India-Gulf Spat: Protagonists in glass housesJames M. Dorsey Launched 12 years ago, my column, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, offers, to borrow a phrase from an early...
James M. DorseyMay 24 minUkraine joins Afghanistan and Yemen in shaping Gulf rivalriesJames M. Dorsey The US withdrawal from Afghanistan was a geopolitical watershed. Its shockwaves continue to reverberate and are magnified...
James M. DorseyApr 294 minContesting Russia requires renewed US engagement in Central AsiaJames M. Dorsey When US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III declared that Washington wanted to see Russia so “weakened" that it would...
James M. DorseyFeb 264 minImaging the day after a Russian conquest of Kyiv: Not a pretty pictureBy James M. Dorsey It may be only a matter of time before Russian troops control the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and topple President...
James M. DorseyDec 28, 20214 minPakistan revamps education at the point of a gunBy James M. Dorsey Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a rare clerical voice in Pakistan. A prominent religious scholar and former member of the...
James M. DorseyNov 24, 20215 minUAE chalks up diplomatic successes with uncertain payoffsNovember 25, 2021 By James M. Dorsey It has been a good week for United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed. Headline-grabbing,...
James M. DorseyNov 13, 20215 minPulling back from the brink: Religious and ethnic intolerance threatens to spin out of controlNovember 14, 2021 By James M Dorsey The family of nations is balancing on the edge of an abyss as mushrooming religious and ethnic...
James M. DorseyNov 10, 20214 minWhither Muslim solidarity and moderation?November 11, 2021 By James M. Dorsey Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki AlFaisal Al Saud must have gotten his tenses mixed up...
James M. DorseyNov 7, 20214 minSouth Asia replaces the Middle East as the epicentre of Muslim religious ultra-conservatismNovember 08, 2021 By James M. Dorsey As Middle Eastern states attempt to manage their political and security differences, Muslim-majority...
James M. DorseyNov 3, 20215 minUltraconservative triumph puts Pakistan at riskNovember 04, 2021 By James M. Dorsey Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have averted for now further violence by caving in to...
James M. DorseyOct 29, 20215 minReligious ultra-conservatism has a field day in Pakistan. It puts Saudi Arabia on the SpotOctober 30, 2021 By James M. Dorsey Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism is having a field day. Barely three months after the Taliban claimed...
James M. DorseyOct 26, 20214 minThe pendulum gradually swings towards international engagement with the TalibanOctober 27, 2021 By James M. Dorsey The Taliban and Pakistan, both viewed warily by the West and others in the international community,...
James M. DorseyOct 16, 20215 minShaping US Middle East policy amidst failing states, failed democratization and increased activismSource: Middle East Report, Spring 2020 nbr 294 https://merip.org/2020/06/exit-empire/ By James M. Dorsey The future of US engagement in...
James M. DorseyOct 6, 20215 minComparing textbooks: Even Afghanistan scores better than PakistanBy James M. Dorsey Societal struggles and reform often take unexpected turns in vast swaths of land stretching from the Middle East into...
James M. DorseySep 30, 20215 minAfghanistan highlights link between religious soft power and Gulf securityBy James M. Dorsey When Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed Abdulrahman Al-Thani this week described the Taliban’s repressive...
James M. DorseySep 20, 20217 minA shift in militants’ strategy could shine a more positive light on failed US policyBy James M. Dorsey A paradigm shift in jihadist thinking suggests that the US invasion of Afghanistan may prove to have achieved more...
James M. DorseySep 13, 20217 minInitial Taliban moves fail to convince Afghanistan’s neighboursBy James M. Dorsey The Taliban’s record in recent weeks on making good on promises to respect human and women’s rights as well as uphold...
James M. DorseySep 11, 20214 minTo include or not include? China-led SCO weighs Iranian membershipBy James M. Dorsey The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan may help Iran reduce its international isolation. At least, that’s what the...
James M. DorseySep 6, 20215 minTaliban perpetuate Muslim world's failed governance paradigmBy James M. Dorsey The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan perpetuates a paradigm of failed governance in the Muslim world based on a...
James M. DorseyAug 31, 202142 minInsight 265: US Foreign Policy Debate Rages, But Fails to Move the NeedleBy James M. Dorsey* A series of reports published by Washington-based think tanks populated by former government officials as well as...