Strategic Paradigms by Ehsan Ahrari

In the presidential debates between the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, and that of the Republican Party, John McCain, the Middle East and South Asia stand out prominently.  The four issues of discussion are: America’s continued presence in Iraq, relations with Israel, dealing with Iran, and the future modalities of American actions [...]

The French depiction of a Muslim woman’s practice of her faith as “religious totalitarianism” is clashing with France’s own practice of “secular totalitarianism.”  There is no other way to describe it.  The case in point is a female immigrant of Algerian background, Faiza Silmi.  Her “crime” is her incapacity to assimilate into France.  She was [...]

If the 1990s and the first eight years of the first decade of the 21st Century represented an era when transnational terrorism dominated world attention, the remainder of this decade and the next one promise to be a period of a new global crisis, which might be even more obdurate than fighting global terrorism.  Robert [...]