Contrary to the assumption that the leaks of the diplomatic cables represented a heavy and unexpected pressure on American diplomacy - through their exposition of a mode of operation based on hypocrisy and duplicity - I will try to prove that the leaks, in fact, signify greater challenges and...

Elected President by 53% of the French people, the 51-year-old politician, M. Nicolas Sarkozy, has pulled off a major triumph in uniting his camp behind him, but now faces the greater task of unifying the nation, as his mentor Charles de Gaulle succeeded to do by times of big challenges. This is...

“The effect of great and sudden wealth on the tiny desert states of the (…) Gulf has been remarkable", says P. Mansfield. In the kingdom of Saudi Arabia it has produced one of the most extraordinary phenomena of the twentieth century. It is not only that a state which was one of poorest on...

Beijing has remained for a long time away from Middle Eastern conflicts, leaving them to the other permanent member states of the Security Council, namely the United States, Britain, France and Russia. However, China inaugurated the year 2016 by issuing a document concerned with its new policy...

Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world, said President George W. Bush in his February 1, 2006 State of the Union Address, delivered before a Joint Session of...

This essay is concerned only with the emigration of Arab elites (brain drain), which is vastly different from the mass economic migration of workers to Europe, the U.S. and rich countries. The main assumption is that the scary state of Arab societies at political, social and cultural levels, is...

A worse situation may follow the withdrawal of the US forces from Iraq, even with a strong government willing to fight terrorism and to enforce law. That would mean that the country cannot digest democracy, and that is exactly what the Baathists, the radicals of al-Qaeda, and so many fanatics wish

The report issued in June 2010 by the Brookings institution titled “Beyond Madrasas: Assessing the Links Between Education and Militancy in Pakistan,” is the first American assessment that introduces more ponderation about this issue. Indeed, it represents also a different view from those...

While America is preparing again for an important shift in policy-making, how would its Leaders read the map in the Arab-Islamic world? That's our concern here...The dramatic global resurgence of religious, often fundamentalist, movements over the last decades has caught many people by surprise....