Strategic Paradigms by Ehsan Ahrari

As India has become a target of terrorism once again, it is time to be introspective.  Indian officials habitually blame Muslims every time there is violence in India. More often than not, they are known to be playing fast and loose with the facts.  They are not constrained by the absence of evidence, and no [...]

The reported choice of Hillary Clinton as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State does not make much sense. All presidents come to office with a definite worldview and a vision of America’s foreign policy during their term. Assuming that Obama shares these characteristics with his predecessors, his worldview was not quite similar to that which [...]

American Muslims are overjoyed at the election of Barack Obama.  Knowing that there was so much malicious discussion during the election campaign about Obama’s faith—that he is “secretly a Muslim,” as if that made him “evil”—and the fact that he went before the Jewish lobby in Washington during the campaign and spelled out his very [...]

Indonesia has always been a place “way out there in Southeast Asia” for me.  My world travels took me all over the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and Europe, but East Asia remained a place that did not capture my professional interest until 2005, when I visited Singapore.  During that trip, I remember the [...]