Kurdish Wins…Turkish Worries
Since mid-2012, Kurdish areas in Syria – extending for about 700 miles west from the Turkish-Iraqi-Syrian border – have mostly… Read more >
‘The Arab Spring, 4 years on’ Interview with: Founder of Quest for Middle East Analysis, Dr. Imad Harb
“This period of chaos and uncertainty will be here for a while to come, because of all the things that… Read more >
Leveraging New Technology that Combines Digital Forensics and Electronic Discovery for Intelligence Purposes
…there are serious shortcomings associated with the common process of indexing and searching that are generally not very well publicised…. Read more >
Iraq’s fall a matter of time
The US invasion of Iraq (March 2003) determined that country’s future. Its days as a unified state are numbered. In… Read more >
On shifting sands: the Gulf States ‘awakening’ to chaos?
Though the Gulf States are relatively stable, they are increasingly challenged by a new generation of radicalised youth tired of… Read more >
Sectarian Wars: The Case of Ethiopia
News of the latest ‘Islamic State’ (IS) execution of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya should be something to be worried… Read more >
The American Change of Heart on Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) flooding the Syrian battlefield and spilling over into Iraq where it… Read more >
Battle of Exceptionalism in the South China Sea
Throughout the early part of the 21st Century, the world has been preoccupied by the rise of China and the… Read more >
Russia, Ukrainian separatists & Malaysian Flight MH717: Changing the tide of Russia’s resurgence?
Vladimir Putin’s stunning stratagem of capturing the former Russian province of Crimea (March 21, 2014) from the Ukraine, which caught… Read more >
The Politics of Carbon: A Case of Throwing Good Money after Bad?
In an interesting piece published in The Western Australian, February 28th, it was suggested that the Australian Federal Government might… Read more >