A collection of 211 posts
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Israel and the United States have already done much to dismantle the Axis of Resistance, but the broader network supported by Iran remains most active in Western Europe.
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
Why the misunderstood sovereign UAE thrives, and why ideologues—from the Islamic Republic to the Muslim Brotherhood—are invested in its demise.
The CCP will certainly take advantage should Iran turn into a major distraction for the US.
An interview with Dr Shmuel Bar.
Operation Epic Fury is not just about Iran.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Iranian-Canadian human-rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz about whether Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the last Shah of Iran, might rise to power as a new Prince of Persia.
The Islamic Republic’s assault on the Gulf will forge the new Middle East.
In geopolitics, moral culture shapes whether influence is experienced as leadership or domination, cooperation or coercion.
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
The Takfiris are back in business.
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.
A septuagenarian loyalist may be facing execution for the crimes of caution and professionalism.