Strategic Paradigms by Ehsan Ahrari

• The ‘Straitjacket’ of the American Presidency, Jul 27, 2008
• Rhetorical Wars Without An End: U.S.-Iran Practice of “Mutual Satanization”, Jul 27, 2008
• The Clash of Religious Versus Secular “Totalitarianisms”, Jul 20, 2008
• The New Global Crisis Requires A Major Revamping of the Global Power Structure, Jul 6, 2008
• The Post-9/ll American Conundrum: How to Win the War of Ideas in the World of Islam, Jul 2, 2008
• Neocon Redux?, Jun 26, 2008
• Nuclear find raises the ante against Iran, Jun 18, 2008
• The ”Obama Factor” in America—A Personal Narrative, Jun 8, 2008
• Iraq: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, May 24, 2008
• The Mythical Post-American Era, May 20, 2008
• When the Information War is Waged Against the American People, Apr 27, 2008
• Psychological Warfare: Target Iran, Apr 27, 2008
• The Dragon and the Dalai Lama, Apr 26, 2008
• The Meaning of Iran’s Full Membership in the SCO, Apr 2, 2008
• Shi’ite fight shows other side of the COIN, Apr 1, 2008
• The Not So “Irresistible” Global Power Shift From the West to the East, Mar 8, 2008
• Putinism Without Putin, Mar 2, 2008
• What About A World With A “Rising” Muslim Power?, Feb 18, 2008
• Death of Hezbollah kingpin: A war awaits, Feb 15, 2008
• Nouveau riche must follow the rules, 14 Feb 08
• Getting It Right about Musharraf Coauthored with Robert Wirsing, Feb 5, 2008
• Victory By The Numbers Is Still An In Thing, Jan 1, 2008
• The Hellish Place Called Pakistan, Jan 1, 2008

2007 Articles:

• Fear of Iran is the Driving Force Behind The Make Believe Peace Conference, Nov 25, 2007
• Pakistan Needs a Military Caretaker to Bring Back Democracy, Nov 22, 2007
• If Musharraf Goes, Nov 17, 2007
• The Future of the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, Nov 10, 2007
• America’s Uneasy Choices in Islamabad, Nov 4, 2007
• Ex-generals don’t want war czar job, no sir, Apr 13, 2007
• Keeping a Distance from the “Losing Side”, Apr 11, 2007
• Taking the Air Out of a Ballooning Crisis, Apr 11, 2007
• The Fourth Anniversary of U.S. Occupation of Iraq: The Impending Certain Withdrawal, Mar 24, 2007
• The smugglers of Iran’s Kordestan, Feb 21, 2007
• Intercontinental guided hypocracy, Jan 23, 2007
• A whiff of desperation in the air, Jan 18, 2007
• The Post-Saddam Middle East, Jan 1, 2007

2006 Articles:

• The End of Neoconservatism: Implications for America’s Greatness, Dec 25, 2006
• “SURGE” – THE NEW CATCHPHRASE IN SEARCH OF A STRATEGY, Dec 25, 2006
• Saudi Arabia and Iran in Iraq fix, Dec 20, 2006
• Adieu Rummy, Dec 17, 2006
• The elusive winning strategy for Iraq, Dec 15, 2006
• Father, son and Holy Ghost, Dec 12, 2006
• Iraq Study Group gets one thing right, Dec 8, 2006
• Radical US approach for radical leaders, Nov 29, 2006
• Bush’s Shiite Challenge, Nov 28, 2006
• Some plain truths about Iraq, Nov 17, 2006
• The Lame Duck Factor in Bush’s SE Asia Trip, Nov 15, 2006
• Iraq calls for bitter medicine, Nov 14, 2006
• Hollow victory: The hanging of Saddam, Nov 7, 2006
• Hollow Victory: Sadam’s Hanging, Nov 6, 2006
• The US campaign to ‘persuade’ Iran, Nov 3, 2006
• Lebanon: The Games Protagonists Play, Nov 2, 2006
• Russia rules the worlds arms bazaar, Oct 31, 2006
• Iraq’s defiant but doomed democracy, Oct 27, 2006
• Bending with the wind, Oct 25, 2006
• US turns space into its colony, Oct 20, 2006
• Nuclear Security Umbrella Option Redux, Oct 19, 2006
• Pyongyang and the ‘p’ word, Oct 17, 2006
• The Most Certain Aspect of the Iraq War: Rising Deluge of Uncertainty, Oct 16, 2006
• How Not to Handle Iran’s Nuke Aspirations, Oct 12, 2006
• The Tattered Bush Doctrine, Oct 11, 2006
• The American Way of Thinking About the Iraq War, Oct 4, 2006
• Rice hopes to exploit the Arab-Iran divide, Oct 3, 2006
• Bush and Barney’s path to Waterloo, Oct 3, 2006
• The Devil and the Post-9/11 Era, Sep 30, 2006
• Uneasy Partners: Pakistan and the United States, Sep 29, 2006
• Dumbed down intelligence, Sep 29, 2006
• Caught in the Osama obsession, Sep 26, 2006
• Et tu pontiff?, Sep 20, 2006
• U.S.-Iran Nuclear Crisis Linked to China, Sep 18, 2006
• Oral Testimony Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission September 14, 2006, Sep 14, 2006
• The US is Losing the War on Terror, Sep 13, 2006
• Muqtada: The “Nasrallah” of Iraq, Sep 12, 2006
• Whither Pakistan and Afghanistan?, Sep 6, 2006
• Tehran sharpens its sword, Aug 23, 2006
• New ‘winning strategy,’ same old war, Aug 22, 2006
• Lebanon: Jubilation and Recrimination, Aug 16, 2006
• A dummy run against Hezbollah, Aug 16, 2006
• Can Hezbollah As a Fighting Entity be Destroyed?, Aug 13, 2006
• Attacking terrorism at its roots, Aug 12, 2006
• Iraq’s downward spiral toward partition, Aug 11, 2006
• Imposing the “Will” of the Powerful on the Weak, Aug 10, 2006
• Commentary: The Meaning of Rising Shia Power for the United States, Aug 10, 2006
• Israel’s Bid to Reestablish Deterrence Is Failing, Aug 4, 2006
• A Doomsday Prognostication For Iraq, Aug 3, 2006
• Contradictions of Turkish Foreign Policy, Aug 2, 2006
• Israel’s Bid to Reestablish Deterrence Is Failing, Aug 1, 2006
• Mounting Prestige of Hezbollah and Iran in “Muslim Streets” is Also Risky, Jul 31, 2006
• The Rising Shia Power, Jul 28, 2006
• The Split Visions of the Lebanese War, Jul 28, 2006
• Fourth Generation War in Lebanon, Jul 28, 2006
• A “New Middle East” is Emerging Indeed!, Jul 26, 2006
• The Real Challenge from the ‘Shia Crescent’, Jul 24, 2006
• Alive and Still Kicking Hard: Washington’s Neocons, Jul 22, 2006
• Russia and the Making of a Multipolar World, Jul 18, 2006
• Has ‘Cowboy Diplomacy’ Really Ended?, Jul 18, 2006
• Terrorism and The Blame game of South Asia, Jul 17, 2006
• The danger of an unequal struggle, Jul 15, 2006
• How Indo-Pak Rivalry Complicates Afghan Situation, Jul 15, 2006
• Terror’s New Faces, Jul 13, 2006
• A Problem By Proxy: India and Pakistan play out their conflict on Afghanistan’s soil, Jul 11, 2006
• Has ‘Cowboy Diplomacy’ Really Ended?, Jul 9, 2006
• “Shared Vision”: The New Buzz in US-Turkey Ties, Jul 6, 2006
• North Korea’s missile tests send message to Iran, Jul 6, 2006
• The Alleged Destabilizing Iranian Role in Iraq, Jul 6, 2006
• US media ensnared in liberty vs security debate, Jul 4, 2006
• Are the U.S. and Iran Creating the Façade of Negotiating with Each Other?, Jul 3, 2006
• Split Visions of Iran in the West and in the World of Islam, Jul 3, 2006
• Kuwait on a Trailblazing Path To Democracy, Jun 29, 2006
• U.S. Interests in the Asia Pacific, Jun 25, 2006
• If the Hungarian Revolt Were to Inspire the Iraqis, Jun 22, 2006
• The Alleged Destabizling Iranian Role in Iraq, Jun 22, 2006
• Staying in the Nuclear Ball Game, Jun 19, 2006
• Somalia: The Defeat of “Counterterrorism by Proxy”, Jun 18, 2006
• The New Face of Terror, Jun 15, 2006
• The danger of an unequal struggle, Jun 15, 2006
• The Clash of Civilization is Already Here, Jun 14, 2006
• Why Did Bush Dash Over to Iraq?, Jun 13, 2006
• America’s Latest “New” Iraq Strategy, Jun 12, 2006
• Little Reasons to Celebrate the Demise of al-Zarqawi, Jun 11, 2006
• The Meaning of al-Zarqawi’s Death, Jun 8, 2006
• The Indonesian Scolding of US: A Clarion Call for a Fresh Approach to GWOT, Jun 7, 2006
• The Talibanization of Iraq, Jun 6, 2006
• America’s Long March Toward Diplomatic Overtures, Jun 6, 2006
• The China Conundrum: A Japanese Perspective, Jun 5, 2006
• The Rising Tide of Troubles for the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, Jun 4, 2006
• Afghanistan: A Steady Backward Slide?, Jun 3, 2006
• Here Come “Carrots” for Iran, Jun 1, 2006
• Electronic Videogames As a New Tool in the Information War, May 26, 2006
• An Antimissile Shield Against Iranian Missiles, May 24, 2006
• Iraq’s National Unity Government: What’s Next?, May 21, 2006
• Ahmadinejad’s Campaign for the Hearts and Minds of Muslims, May 17, 2006
• A. Q. Khan’s Syrian Connection, May 14, 2006
• Heightened Pressure for a Direct U.S.-Iran Dialogue, May 12, 2006
• The Future of Warrantless Wiretap/Terrorist Surveillance, May 11, 2006
• Iran’s Nuclear Policy Muddle, May 10, 2006
• A daunting task ahead for the next CIA chief, May 9, 2006
• The Making of Islamic Democracies in the Middle East, May 8, 2006
• Palaces As Symbols of Tyranny in Iraq, May 5, 2006
• Autonomous Regions As A Precursor for Partitioning Iraq?, May 4, 2006
• A new weapon in the ‘war of ideas’, May 4, 2006
• Iran: The Steadily Brewing Nuclear Conflict, May 1, 2006
• The China Conundrum: A Japanese Perspective, May 1, 2006
• The World Between Two “Hijackings”, May 1, 2006
• Is There A Winning Strategy for Iraq?, Apr 27, 2006
• Loud and clear: no respite in the ‘long war’, Apr 27, 2006
• If Bush is to Dump Cheney, Apr 25, 2006
• Jawad al-Maliki: A National Leader or Another Sectarian?, Apr 24, 2006
• Deadly serious war games, Apr 22, 2006
• Why Rumsfeld’s time is up, Apr 18, 2006
• Making New Enemies and Negotiating with Old Enemies, Apr 12, 2006
• A Power Game, Apr 12, 2006
• View: Iran’s Nukes in a Power Game, Apr 8, 2006
• Another Tiny Step Toward Civilizational War?, Apr 7, 2006
• Iran’s Nukes in a Power Game, Apr 6, 2006
• Pakistan’s Quandary Related to U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, Apr 5, 2006
• An arrow to the heart of policy, Apr 5, 2006
• A silver bullet aimed at Iraq’s head, Apr 4, 2006
• China, Russia, and the Arab Role in Iran’s Nuclear Research, Apr 1, 2006
• Democracy: Iraq votes, Bush vetoes, Mar 31, 2006
• Different beat to Iran war drums, Mar 30, 2006
• Fighting with friends, Mar 29, 2006
• Iran’s turn for a ‘coalition of the willing’, Mar 10, 2006
• Pakistan-India nuclear rivalry heats up, Mar 8, 2006
• India seeking a friend, not a patron, Mar 2, 2006
• Iraq’s kingmaker is no Bush pawn, Feb 23, 2006
• The clash of fundamentalisms, Feb 15, 2006
• United states – minus United States, Feb 10, 2006
• US digs in for ‘Long War’, Feb 9, 2006
• Cartoons and the clash of ‘freedoms’, Feb 4, 2006
• The noose tightens around Iran, Feb 2, 2006
• A Rising Power Called India: Personal Observations, Jan 31, 2006
• US shows India its iron fist, Jan 27, 2006
• US sets its sights on asymmetric warfare, Jan 26, 2006
• Wars as an endless “Comedy of Errors: A Book Review, Jan 17, 2006
• Diplomacy stalled, Jan 7, 2006
• A rising power called India, Jan 5, 2006

2005 Articles:

• The Non-Antagonistic Aspects of India’s‘Look East’ Policy, Dec 13, 2005
• Sectarian flaws in Iraq, Dec 13, 2005
• The Condemned Sectarian-Based Democracy of Iraq, Dec 9, 2005
• On Creating a Make-Believe ‘Victory’ in Iraq, Dec 6, 2005
• The New Iraqi Consensus: Expel the “Occupiers”, Nov 28, 2005
• Part I: The Besieged ‘War Presidency’ of George Bush, Nov 21, 2005
• Part II: The Sui Generis Nature of the War on Terror, Nov 21, 2005
• Tariq Ramadan on the French Riots, Nov 21, 2005
• US backs its tarnished golden boys in Iraq, Nov 12, 2005
• Jordan bombs a terrorist master-stroke, Nov 11, 2005
• Al Qaida’s battle for hearts and minds, Nov 10, 2005
• Why Paris is burning, Nov 9, 2005
• Iran on a Disastrous Course Under Ahmadinejad, Nov 7, 2005
• Ensuring Syria’s Push Toward a Disastrous Precipice, Nov 6, 2005
• The Making of Global Jihad Part I, Nov 6, 2005
• The Making of Global Jihad Part II, Nov 6, 2005
• CIA’s ‘black sites’ breed more evil, Nov 4, 2005
• The unraveling of the Cheney cabal, Nov 1, 2005
• In [Iraq] for the long haul, Oct 28, 2005
• The Sunni option, Oct 27, 2005
• Ensuring Syria’s Push Toward a Disastrous Precipice, Oct 25, 2005
• The Islamic agenda, Oct 14, 2005
• It’s the radicals, stupid [Title changed by Asia Times], Oct 8, 2005
• Ousting Assad without a backup plan, Oct 5, 2005
• The indefatigable insurgency, Oct 4, 2005
• Grand Miscalculation of the Grand Ayatollah, Sep 26, 2005
• “Punishing” Iran Without ”Evidence”, Sep 26, 2005
• In Syria, regime change by other means, Sep 16, 2005
• Strategic thinking and sausage-making, Sep 15, 2005
• Kofi Annan’s Private War, Sep 10, 2005
• Why Pakistan Should Go Beyond Just “Engaging” Israel, Sep 10, 2005
• Democracy without choice, Sep 1, 2005
• The Islamic factor in the war on terror, Aug 30, 2005
• Pakistan looks to its image, Aug 26, 2005
• More power to the Sunnis, Aug 23, 2005
• Iran’s “Secret War” Inside Iraq: Fiction Versus Reality, Aug 21, 2005
• Three-way pull in Iraq, Aug 16, 2005
• ‘Iran has reasons to couint on China’, Aug 13, 2005
• America’s new bogeyman, Aug 12, 2005
• Deafening silence, Aug 10, 2005
• Whither Saudi Arabia?, Aug 1, 2005
• U.S. Out of Uzbekistan?, Jul 31, 2005
• China according to the Pentagon, Jul 19, 2005
• The Making of Global Jihad Part I, Jul 17, 2005
• The Making of Global Jihad Part II, Jul 17, 2005
• Listen to McNamara’s Sage Advice, Jun 30, 2005
• The Meaning of Ahmadinejad’s Election: A View From Washington, Jun 27, 2005
• What the US wants from Iran, Jun 25, 2005
• Future As A Mirror Image of the Past—Not Necessarily, Jun 16, 2005
• Guiding hand in India, China ties, Jun 15, 2005
• The Intriguing Sino-Indian Strategic Interactions, Jun 12, 2005
• Third time lucky for nuclear head?, Jun 11, 2005
• The Kafkaesque Morality of Military Preponderance, Jun 7, 2005
• Iraq Between “Rose Garden Optimism” and “Baghdad Pessimism”, Jun 6, 2005
• America needs you, Deep Throat II, Jun 3, 2005
• Where Was “Deep Throat” When We Needed Him?, Jun 2, 2005
• Gulags: Shooting the messenger, Jun 2, 2005
• Turnabout for Turkey, May 28, 2005
• Listening to the ole curmudgeon, May 26, 2005
• The Conundrum of Dealing with America’s Dictators, May 22, 2005
• Muslim Verdict: Guilty Even when “Proven” Innocent, May 19, 2005
• Dribble Regarding the Pretext to War Against Iraq, May 19, 2005
• Reflecting on the Past “Mistakes” of Yalta and the Future Mistakes of U.S. Foreign Policy, May 13, 2005
• In Iraq’s insurgency, no rules, just death, May 13, 2005
• The Young American Soldier, May 6, 2005
• Long shadows of the Shi’ite tragedy, May 5, 2005
• The Meaning of Al-Libbi’s Capture, May 4, 2005
• The Nuclear Hypocrisies and Double Standards, May 4, 2005
• Iran’s Nuclear Program: Options for the U.S., May 4, 2005
• A different type of regime change in Syria, May 3, 2005
• Dangerous games the Saudis play, Apr 26, 2005
• All Tent and No Camel, Apr 26, 2005
• Intelligence Fallout: U.S. Spy Agency Failures May Hinder Future Action, Apr 18, 2005
• Old Iraqi nemeses, deadly demands, Apr 13, 2005
• ‘Sausage-making’ in Iraq, Apr 6, 2005
• The Damning of America’s Intelligence Agencies, Apr 1, 2005
• Kyrgyzstan: A Crucible for a Different Type of Regime Change, Mar 30, 2005
• A New Arms Race, Mar 28, 2005
• Adieu Akaev, Who’s Next?, Mar 27, 2005
• Why Anti-Bushism is So Prevalent Abroad?, Mar 25, 2005
• The Entangling Web of Intelligence, Mar 25, 2005
• George F. Kennan: The Passing of a Giant, Mar 20, 2005
• Karen Hughes: The New “Information Warrior”, Mar 18, 2005
• Bush’s Emerging Strategy: Creating Important Stakes for Iran, Mar 7, 2005
• Now comes Arab pressure, Mar 5, 2005
• The Coming Fast-Paced Change in the Middle East, Feb 28, 2005
• Turning Up the Heat on Egypt For Democracy, Feb 27, 2005
• Enter a unifier and a healer, Feb 24, 2005
• Bush’s Multilateral “Charm Offensive”, Feb 21, 2005
• Part II: Condy Rice Faces “the Brave New World”, Feb 19, 2005
• US security threats, new and old, Feb 18, 2005
• Part I: The Legacy of Collin Powell, Feb 17, 2005
• The Unifying Role of Iran, Feb 17, 2005
• Iran-Syria “United Front”, Feb 17, 2005
• Who Killed Rafiq Hariri?, Feb 16, 2005
• Saudi Quest for an Anti-Terrorism Strategy, Feb 16, 2005
• New and Old Threats to America’s Security, Feb 16, 2005
• When losers are winners, Feb 15, 2005
• Saudis grapple with terrorism, Feb 12, 2005
• Sistani begins on his true agenda, Feb 8, 2005
• And the Winner in The Iraqi Corner is…., Feb 6, 2005
• Down the path of confrontation, Feb 4, 2005
• Taking a Page from Sharanksy: Fighting Tyranny As An Afterthought, Feb 3, 2005
• Washington talks of talks with Iran, Feb 3, 2005
• Bush Second Term Agenda: Continued Confrontational Posture Toward the Middle East, Feb 2, 2005
• Why insurgents may be the winners, Jan 29, 2005
• Advantage: Insurgents, Jan 28, 2005
• Zarqawi vs Sistani, Jan 27, 2005
• The negative force of anti-Bushism, Jan 26, 2005
• The battle of the tyrants, Jan 22, 2005
• Israel in the Iran fray, too, Jan 20, 2005
• Once more, the heat’s on Iran, Jan 19, 2005
• The 2020 vision of US intelligence, Jan 15, 2005
• Vanished fear of an al-Qaeda attack, Jan 8, 2005
• The Mounting Passion for Participation in Iraq, Jan 2, 2005

2004 Articles

• Mayhem, Bloodshed, and Chaos, Dec 24, 2004
• Why Rummy Should Stay, Dec 20, 2004
• Why Rummy Should Not Go, Dec 19, 2004
• Odds are even in the ‘information’ war, Dec 16, 2004
• The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Muslims, Dec 14, 2004
• ElBaradei in Washington’s crosshairs, Dec 14, 2004
• The damage done, Dec 10, 2004
• EU’s Chinese Puzzle: To Sell or Not To Sell?, Dec 9, 2004
• No Way to Put the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle, Dec 8, 2004
• Enter The Saudi End Game, Dec 7, 2004
• Al Qaida on the March, Dec 6, 2004
• The World According to Condy Rice, Dec 5, 2004
• High-tech failure against terror, Nov 30, 2004
• Network-Centric Warfare: How Relevant to Countering Terrorism?, Nov 25, 2004
• The Kashmir Conflict: … Plus c’est La Meme Chose, Nov 21, 2004
• The Next Great Leader in the Middle East, Nov 14, 2004
• So Long, Abu Ammar!, Nov 11, 2004
• If the world could vote, Nov 2, 2004
• US, Iran and the Iraqi election game, Oct 29, 2004
• Paying China for pressuring Pyongyang, Oct 28, 2004
• PART II – The US-Isreal tag-team act, Oct 22, 2004
• PART I: The enemy beyond, Oct 21, 2004
• A Choice for American Muslims, Oct 21, 2004
• Asia Pacific Mid-2003-October 2004: A Strategic Assessment, Oct 20, 2004
• Retracing the path of infamy, Oct 16, 2004
• The Do-or-Die Factor For John Kerry in the Presidential Debates, Sep 30, 2004
• The Emerging Lose Lose Situation in Iraq, Sep 29, 2004
• Between al-Qaida and the US in Afghanistan: The Winner is…., Sep 29, 2004
• Whispers of regime change, Sep 24, 2004
• Allawi barking up the wrong tree, Sep 22, 2004
• The Teflon presidency of George W Bush, Sep 18, 2004
• Putin’s Strategy of Fighting Terrorism: Consolidation of Power, ‘Bushspeak’, Sep 16, 2004
• US’s impasse over a ‘nuclear’ Iran, Sep 14, 2004
• The clash of fundamentalists, Sep 11, 2004
• Nuclear genie out of S Korean bottle, Sep 8, 2004
• It’s still a stark choice for US voters, Sep 4, 2004
• How Bush, Kerry are one and the same, Sep 2, 2004
• How Bush, Kerry Are One And The Same, Sep 2, 2004
• Closing the gap in al-Qaeda fight, Aug 31, 2004
• US-Iranian tug and pull over Iraq, Aug 28, 2004
• Ehsan Ahrari responds to readers – Iran: the babble and the bomb, Aug 25, 2004
• China’s view of US ‘lily pad’ strategy, Aug 24, 2004
• Iran: The babble and the bomb, Aug 21, 2004
• Saving Afghanistan from the killing fields, Aug 17, 2004
• Al-Qaida and cyberterrorism, Aug 15, 2004
• House of Saud exits cocoon of denial, Aug 13, 2004
• Saudi Arabia’s Catch-22, Aug 12, 2004
• Porter Goss For CIA: A Highly Political Choice, Aug 10, 2004
• Saudi Arabia: Regime Survival Versus Regime Change, Aug 8, 2004
• Al-Qaida Everywhere, Aug 3, 2004
• Muslim troops no guarantee for Iraq, Aug 3, 2004
• How Kerry is different – and how he isn’t, Jul 30, 2004
• N Korea chooses guns over butter, Jul 27, 2004
• Tackling Terrorism in the Muslim/Arab World, Jul 25, 2004
• Fears of a dialogue of the deaf, Jul 24, 2004
• Allawi’s Strategy of Cooptation and Confrontation, Jul 23, 2004
• Islamic or Secular Iraq: Stakes for U.S. and Iran, Jul 22, 2004
• Time’s up in blame game, Jul 13, 2004
• Nuclear Israel: Belling the cat, Jul 10, 2004
• Bush and the Muslim predicament, Jul 8, 2004
• The meaning of Saddam’s trial, Jul 3, 2004
• Sovereignty: Now the games really begin, Jun 30, 2004
• Iraq: Let The Games Begin, Jun 29, 2004
• A Nuclear Strategy Highlighting “Universal Compliance”, Jun 25, 2004
• The Shattered Myth of Saddam-Al-Qaida Connection, Jun 25, 2004
• Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: grim choices, Jun 22, 2004
• The Wages of Coddling Tyrants, Jun 22, 2004
• Bush has no one to blame but himself, Jun 15, 2004
• Bush just doesn’t get it …, Jun 11, 2004
• India: The Albatross of Old Foreign Policy Predilections, Jun 9, 2004
• The Iraqi Interim Government and the Power Play at the U.N., Jun 7, 2004
• The first domino has fallen, Jun 5, 2004
• Here Comes the Interim Iraqi Government, Jun 4, 2004
• Iyad Allawi: A premier for all reasons, Jun 2, 2004
• Now the sovereignty muddle, May 29, 2004
• Bush’s vision of Iraq vs reality, May 26, 2004
• Headed over Niagara Falls, May 25, 2004
• Regime Change Done Right, May 21, 2004
• Why India Matters, May 21, 2004
• US ties: India comes first, May 20, 2004
• It’s Bush who is in the dock, May 14, 2004
• Bush’s Evangelical Zeal, May 13, 2004
• The Impending Demise of “Rumsowitz”, May 10, 2004
• Occupation the Real Culprit of Prisoner Abuse, Rumsfeld Only a Major symbol, May 9, 2004
• Evolving U.S.-India Ties And Other Rivalries: A View from New Delhi, May 9, 2004
• Now the desperate damage control, May 7, 2004
• The dehumanizing nature of occupation, May 4, 2004
• Living with a Nuclear North Korea, Apr 28, 2004
• Iran’s nuclear hide and seek, Apr 23, 2004
• Iraq: The wolf is at the door, Apr 15, 2004
• The Iraqi Quagmire: This time the Wolf is at the Door, Apr 11, 2004
• “Presidential Daily Brief”: Not a Smoking Gun, But…, Apr 11, 2004
• The Making of Hell in Iraq, Apr 9, 2004
• Test of American patience, Apr 7, 2004
• Muqtada’s Shi’ites raise the stakes, Apr 6, 2004
• Rice: No end to controversy, Apr 1, 2004
• Outside View: U.S.-N. Korea brinksmanship, Apr 1, 2004
• Method in Sistani’s muscle flexing, Mar 24, 2004
• Failures of a ‘war president’, Mar 23, 2004
• A War (At Any Cost) President, Mar 22, 2004
• Pakistan as a ‘key non-NATO ally’, Mar 18, 2004
• Limits of America’s Will and Hard Power, Mar 16, 2004
• Never by PR Campaign Alone!, Mar 16, 2004
• The (long) Expected Energy Crisis, Mar 11, 2004
• Iraq Act II: Toward transfer of sovereignty, Mar 9, 2004
• Entangling the American Gulliver, Mar 4, 2004
• Insurgents’ Goal: Kill Iraqi Security Forces, Expose Americans, Feb 25, 2004
• Russia vs the US: Star wars revisited, Feb 25, 2004
• Iraq’s Nonexistent WMDs and Bush Administration’s Credibility, Feb 22, 2004
• In Iraq, the chaos theory in action, Feb 20, 2004
• Bush misses opportunity to come clean on Iraq, Feb 10, 2004
• There’s more to the US image than PR, Feb 7, 2004
• Bush still dodging bullets, Jan 28, 2004
• Fighting the proliferation syndrome, Jan 27, 2004
• Alternative to Faltering Jihadists?, Jan 26, 2004
• Saudi Arabia: Caught between reform and regime change, Jan 26, 2004
• Back to the United Nations, Jan 21, 2004
• When Sistani speaks, Bush listens, Jan 17, 2004
• Foible or fable? You decide, Jan 13, 2004
• How Goes the Information War in Iraq?, Jan 8, 2004
• Iran-Egypt Detente, Jan 6, 2004
• US sticks with Musharraf, Jan 6, 2004
• The Charade of Global Nuclear Nonproliferation?, Jan 5, 2004

2003 Articles:

• Goodbye Saddam, hello …, Dec 17, 2003
• The ‘rat’ and the information war, Dec 16, 2003
• When regime change meets reality, Dec 13, 2003
• NATO’s help comes with a price tag, Dec 9, 2003
• Fight authoritarianism to fight al-Qaeda, Dec 5, 2003
• It’s time to talk turkey in Iraq, Dec 2, 2003
• Americans are From Mars, Iraqis are From Venus, Nov 30, 2003
• Improvisation, aka, Iraqification is the New Strategy, Nov 16, 2003
• The elusive quest for a strategy, Nov 12, 2003
• America’s battle with Political Islam, Nov 11, 2003
• US and Iran play it cool, Nov 6, 2003
• Adieu “Strategic Competitor,” Hello Strategic Partner!, Nov 1, 2003
• Now ‘political islam’ draws fire, Oct 31, 2003
• Not a pretty picture: The future of Iraq, Oct 24, 2003
• Whose god is ‘real’ and ‘bigger’?, Oct 21, 2003
• When 500-pound gorillas fight, Oct 17, 2003
• Muslim Nobel Prize sends a powerful message, Oct 14, 2003
• The transformation of Donald Rumsfeld, Oct 10, 2003
• When all else fails, reorganize, Oct 8, 2003
• US: Leaner is not always meaner, Sep 27, 2003
• Bush’s dangerous singleminded dualism, Sep 25, 2003
• Intra-Alliance Amity Over Iraq —What Amity?, Sep 20, 2003
• Multilateralism or not, Iraq is a mess, Sep 18, 2003
• Baathist-Islamic ties in Iraq: the looming threat, Sep 11, 2003
• India: Challenges of a rising power, Sep 9, 2003
• Bin Laden, what have you done to us?, Sep 5, 2003
• Copycatting the US ‘war on terrorism’, Sep 3, 2003
• Building the coalition of the unwilling, Aug 28, 2003
• Winning The Global War on Terrorism Versus Military Transformation, Aug 27, 2003
• Iraq: Darkness before dawn, Aug 26, 2003
• North Korea, US and elusive detente, Aug 22, 2003
• Copycatting the US ‘war on terrorism’, Aug 19, 2003
• The Price of Muslim Support, Aug 17, 2003
• Destabilize and Prevail, Aug 12, 2003
• The triumphant return of multilateralism, Aug 6, 2003
• The Games Big Powers Play, Aug 3, 2003
• Pakistan and the US: The odd couple, Aug 1, 2003
• Lingering Ambivalence Between the U.S. and Pakistan, Jul 30, 2003
• Enemies from within: Iran and Saudi Arabia, Jul 22, 2003
• America’s options on the Korea nuke crisis, Jul 19, 2003
• On Universalizing Regime Change, Jul 13, 2003
• In Iraq, ‘v’ doesn’t stand for victory, Jul 9, 2003
• Iran, North Korea: The multilateral path, Jul 3, 2003
• Damage control and blame games, Jul 1, 2003
• New angle on the US, Pakistan, India triangle, Jun 27, 2003
• The case against aimless anarchy, Jun 24, 2003
• Beware the Gorbachev experience, Jun 19, 2003
• Why Pakistan needs entente cordiale with Israel, Jun 18, 2003
• Lowering the nuclear threshold, Jun 11, 2003
• Setting the global strategic agenda, Jun 5, 2003
• US dusts off nuclear card, May 29, 2003
• Regime change, al-Qaeda style, May 20, 2003
• But we were focused on fighting terrorism …, May 17, 2003
• Shifting sands, not shifting realignment, May 15, 2003
• Why Syria need not be the next target …, May 9, 2003
• Transformation of America’s Military:A View from the Perspective of “Asymmetric” Warfare, Apr 25, 2003
• The making of America’s Iraqi quagmire, Apr 24, 2003
• The EU as a quasi-military power, Apr 23, 2003
• Adieu Saddam: Bring out the next target, Apr 17, 2003
• The Iraqi Campaign and the Judgment of History, Apr 16, 2003
• Spoils of war: The case of the Iraqi campaign, Apr 8, 2003
• Contradictory visions of American power, Apr 7, 2003
• Iraq vs Vietnam: Similarities and differences, Apr 2, 2003
• The lucrative business of rebuilding Iraq, Mar 26, 2003
• The battle for the Arab mind, Mar 22, 2003
• Vulnerability fears and the hubris of victory, Mar 21, 2003
• Contradictory visions of American power, Mar 19, 2003
• The importance of Central Asia to China, Mar 13, 2003
• Afghanistan dropping off US radar screen, Mar 7, 2003
• Hard choices for Iran’s ayatollahs, Feb 28, 2003
• The re-education of Colin Powell, Feb 27, 2003
• Putin and the growing trans-Atlantic rift, Feb 25, 2003
• Saddam’s Samson option, Feb 21, 2003
• Power by other means, Feb 19, 2003
• Single-minded simple-mindedness, Feb 12, 2003
• As India and Iran snuggle, Pakistan feels the chill, Feb 11, 2003
• A supreme commander’s choices, Feb 7, 2003
• OPEC in the crosshairs, Feb 1, 2003
• Persuading the Muslim mind, Jan 29, 2003
• Gadding with Gaddafi, Jan 24, 2003
• Pakistan as proliferator: A view from Washington, Jan 14, 2003
• Iran and Israel: Nuclear mirror images, Jan 8, 2003

2002 Articles:

• Against all hegemons, save one, Dec 25, 2002
• Pakistan-North Korea: A rational connection, Dec 13, 2002
• Putin’s tacit strategic agenda, Dec 4, 2002
• In Iran, a generational crossroads, Nov 27, 2002
• The war to win hearts and minds begins, Nov 21, 2002
• Pakistan, Turkey: A question of adaptation, Nov 16, 2002
• ‘Evil rogues’ of different stripes, Oct 31, 2002
• Indonesia between Bush and bin Laden, Oct 25, 2002
• Iraq under US military rule?, Oct 17, 2002
• The lessons of Afghanistan, Oct 12, 2002
• Like lambs to the slaughter of Iraq, Oct 3, 2002
• Promoting Democracy in the Middle East with a Lurking “Big Stick”, Sep 26, 2002
• Hello preemption, adieu deterrence, Sep 23, 2002
• Jurassic Park in Washington, Sep 20, 2002
• After the rhetoric, the reality, Sep 18, 2002
• Invading Iraq, no matter the cost, Sep 11, 2002
• Who will police the world’s policeman?, Sep 11, 2002
• The US-China charm offensive, Sep 4, 2002
• Russia flirts with US’s axis of evil, Aug 29, 2002
• Inside information, Aug 22, 2002
• George Bush’s Conundrum — Afghanistan, Aug 19, 2002
• The oil factor in an attack on Iraq, Aug 7, 2002
• Whither Saudi Arabia?, Aug 6, 2002
• China, Russia and Pax Americana, Aug 2, 2002
• Malaysia and Iran: Axis of reason?, Jul 30, 2002
• Homeland Security: Upsides And Downsides, Jul 29, 2002
• Is the Absence of a Peer Rival Good for the United States?, Jul 26, 2002
• China and the US: Parry and thrust, Jul 18, 2002
• US foreign policy: An inconstancy of constants, Jul 17, 2002
• Facing the ‘real’ enemy in the Arab Middle East, Jul 13, 2002
• Pakistan double faults on Israel, Jul 11, 2002
• From ‘Ol’ Boris’ to ‘Pottie Poot’, Jul 9, 2002
• The US as an ‘indispensable’ power, Jul 3, 2002
• Divergent views on the common scourge of terror, Jun 27, 2002
• Similarity breeds contempt: India and Pakistan, Jun 21, 2002
• Indo-U.S. Strategic Partnership and Pakistan, Jun 20, 2002
• With Europe, first jaw jaw, then act, Jun 15, 2002
• Afghanistan: Warlordism redux, Jun 12, 2002
• Muddles and modalities of the ‘Bush Doctrine’, Jun 7, 2002
• The serendipitous search for peace, Jun 6, 2002
• The power of the word, Jun 4, 2002
• As Pakistan loses war of words, what’s next?, Jun 1, 2002
• The new challenge to American democracy, May 30, 2002
• The schizophrenic Russian-Iranian nexus, May 22, 2002
• Beijing and Bush: Misplaced belligerence, May 21, 2002
• Rebuilding Afghanistan: A Sisyphean task?, May 17, 2002
• The waiting game in South Asia, May 15, 2002
• The real question, Mr President, May 1, 2002
• South Asia: War threats and escalation control, Apr 26, 2002
• Squandering American power: A view from Europe, Apr 23, 2002
• Stealing Words From Bush’s Mouth, Apr 22, 2002
• The perils of unfinished wars, Apr 10, 2002
• The creeping nuclear threat, Apr 6, 2002
• Pakistan’s army lays a political smokescreen, Apr 2, 2002
• The not-so-easy choices the US faces, Mar 26, 2002
• The reality and illusion of Sino-Indian cooperation, Mar 22, 2002
• Hey George, Sino-American ties a two-way street, Mar 20, 2002
• The unimagined consequences of ousting Saddam, Mar 16, 2002
• US lowers nuclear barriers, Mar 15, 2002
• A war waged with missiles of misinformation, Mar 13, 2002
• The intemperate rhetoric of George Bush, Mar 12, 2002
• Russia losing its strategic grip in Afghanistan, Mar 7, 2002
• Musharraf’s clarion call to the world of Islam, Mar 5, 2002
• The imaginary ‘axis of evil’, Feb 28, 2002
• US treads on Indian-Pakistani sensibilities, Feb 22, 2002
• Musharraf: A leader in search of a new category, Feb 19, 2002
• US’s double standards on fighting terror in South Asia, Feb 5, 2002
• The reality and illusion of Sino-Indian cooperation, Feb 2, 2002
• The clashing perspectives of Iran and US, Feb 1, 2002
• Saudi Arabia and the United States: Parting of the Ways?, Jan 23, 2002

2001 Articles:

• As Taliban falls, US needs Russia, Dec 18, 2001
• Rogue States and NMD/TMD: Policies in Search of a Rationale?, Dec 2001
• U.S. vs the Growing Turbulence in Muslim Countries, Nov 29, 2001
• Pakistan’s Stakes in America’s War on Terrorism, Nov 6, 2001
• American troops in Central Asia worrying China, Nov 2, 2001
• Al Jazeera’s Unwitting Role in the ‘Unrestricted’ Afghan War, Oct 25, 2001
• Nuclear deterrence, Bush and Asia, Jul 28, 2001
• The revival of triangular diplomacy, Jul 9, 2001

Miscellaneous Publications:

OPEC and the Hyperpluralism of the Oil Market in the 1980s, Spring, 1985