Category Archives: World Affairs

By Murat Onur

When members of Nato gather at a summit in Chicago today, the issue of possible alliance intervention in Syria is bound to come up — with the Turkish prime minister perhaps pushing the discussion.
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Philippe Sands

IT sometimes feels like a week doesn’t pass without some former head of state or other alleged outlaw on the front page as a new international trial opens. This week alone there’s Charles Taylor’s sentencing hearing at the special court for Sierra Leone, the opening of Ratko Mladic’s trial at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and Khaled el-Masri’s extraordinary rendition case at the European court of human rights.
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By Gordon Robison

When one mentions the Middle East in the United States, the conversation is most likely to focus on either Syria or Iran. Taking the long view, however, Washington’s most compelling Middle Eastern challenge is not whether to intervene in Syria or how to respond to Iran’s nuclear programme. It is the question of how to deal with an Islamist-dominated government in Egypt, the Arab world’s largest country.
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By Tom Whipple

While waiting to see how the Iranian nuclear confrontation and the various Eurozone crises sort themselves out, there is time to step back and look at the interaction of the major forces that will shape our future. Continue reading →

Masha Gessen

A dozen middle-aged men sit around a U-shaped conference table in a converted apartment in central Moscow. It is April 2012.
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