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    Ignoring the Middle East at one’s peril: Turkey plays games in NATO
    James M. Dorsey
    • 6 days ago
    • 4 min

    Ignoring the Middle East at one’s peril: Turkey plays games in NATO

    James M. Dorsey A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Amid speculation about a reduced...
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    Ukraine: Lessons not being learned
    James M. Dorsey
    • Feb 28
    • 5 min

    Ukraine: Lessons not being learned

    James M. Dorsey Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the international condemnation it generated contains key...
    222 views0 comments
    Turkey and Iran find soft power more difficult than hard power
    James M. Dorsey
    • Oct 23, 2021
    • 6 min

    Turkey and Iran find soft power more difficult than hard power

    October 24, 2021 By James M. Dorsey The times they are a changin’. Iranian leaders may not be Bob Dylan fans, but his words are likely to...
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    US military presence in the Middle East: The less the better
    James M. Dorsey
    • Oct 13, 2021
    • 6 min

    US military presence in the Middle East: The less the better

    By James M. Dorsey It may not have been planned or coordinated but efforts by Middle Eastern states to dial down tensions serve as an...
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    UAE-Turkish Rivalry Wreaks Regional Havoc in Libya and Syria
    James M. Dorsey
    • May 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    UAE-Turkish Rivalry Wreaks Regional Havoc in Libya and Syria

    by James M. Dorsey | May 22, 2020 This story was first published in Inside Arabia A podcast version of this story is available on...
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    Reading tea leaves: US backs off support for regime change in Iran
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jan 11, 2020
    • 4 min

    Reading tea leaves: US backs off support for regime change in Iran

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Rise of civilisationalists forces rethink of sovereign nation state
    James M. Dorsey
    • Nov 4, 2019
    • 6 min

    Rise of civilisationalists forces rethink of sovereign nation state

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Turkey and China tie themselves in knots over Syria and Xinjiang
    James M. Dorsey
    • Oct 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    Turkey and China tie themselves in knots over Syria and Xinjiang

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Turkey and the Kurds: What goes around comes around
    James M. Dorsey
    • Oct 15, 2019
    • 5 min

    Turkey and the Kurds: What goes around comes around

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    A self-inflicted wound: Trump surrenders the West’s moral high ground
    James M. Dorsey
    • Oct 10, 2019
    • 4 min

    A self-inflicted wound: Trump surrenders the West’s moral high ground

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Tension in the Gulf: Not just maritime powder kegs
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jul 13, 2019
    • 4 min

    Tension in the Gulf: Not just maritime powder kegs

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Destabilising Iran
    James M. Dorsey
    • Apr 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    Destabilising Iran

    11 Apr 2019 By James M. Dorsey James M. Dorsey argues that the recent designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council as a...
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    The fallacy of soccer’s magical bridge-building qualities
    James M. Dorsey
    • Mar 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    The fallacy of soccer’s magical bridge-building qualities

    By James M. Dorsey Edited remarks at Brookings seminar in Doha: Lessons from the 2019 Asian Cup: Sports, Globalization, and Politics in...
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    Syria’s Kurds: The new frontline in confronting Iran and Turkey
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jan 13, 2019
    • 5 min

    Syria’s Kurds: The new frontline in confronting Iran and Turkey

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. US President Donald...
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    Saudi Arabia and Iran: When it comes to exiles, the pot calls the kettle black
    James M. Dorsey
    • Oct 31, 2018
    • 5 min

    Saudi Arabia and Iran: When it comes to exiles, the pot calls the kettle black

    By James M. Dorsey If Saudi Arabia is under pressure to give chapter and verse on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its...
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    Attack in Iran raises spectre of a potentially far larger conflagration
    James M. Dorsey
    • Sep 22, 2018
    • 6 min

    Attack in Iran raises spectre of a potentially far larger conflagration

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this article is available at https://soundcloud.com/user-153425019/attack-in-iran-raises-spectre-...
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    The battle for Idlib: A potential Catch-22 for China
    James M. Dorsey
    • Sep 7, 2018
    • 4 min

    The battle for Idlib: A potential Catch-22 for China

    By James M. Dorsey An impending Russian-backed Syrian assault on Idlib, the war-wracked country’s last rebel stronghold, risks putting...
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    Big power competition in the Eastern Mediterranean: Is Trump missing the point?
    James M. Dorsey
    • Aug 2, 2018
    • 5 min

    Big power competition in the Eastern Mediterranean: Is Trump missing the point?

    By James M. Dorsey A Trump administration decision to sanction two key Turkish officials in retaliation for the continued detention of an...
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    The battle for Iran: Policy or regime change?
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jul 3, 2018
    • 5 min

    The battle for Iran: Policy or regime change?

    By James M. Dorsey Iran, in the latest of a series of incidents on its western and south-eastern borders, said it had disbanded a...
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    Eurasianism wins in Turkey even if ideologue loses election
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jun 21, 2018
    • 5 min

    Eurasianism wins in Turkey even if ideologue loses election

    By James M. Dorsey He’s been in and out of prison during Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule and is running against the president in this...
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