Strategic Paradigms by Ehsan Ahrari

President Barack H. Obama spoke to the Muslim world from Cairo on June 4, 2009.  Symbolically, that day will always be remembered every time someone raises the issue of the United States’ relations toward the world of Islam.  The following statement he made that day will go down in history as a memorable one:  The [...]

The post-9/11 era popularized the phrases “weak states,” “failing states” and “failed states.”  Those were places where terrorist organizations evolved and eventually took over the country.  Somalia emerged as the archetype (if that is the right adjective) failed state.  Even if the world wanted to forget Somalia, it could not, when that country became a [...]

India has always been a bundle of political, social, and economic paradoxes.  In the post-Mumbai terrorist attack days (which Indians refer to as India’s 9/11, or, to be precise, 11/26), it stands at the crossroads of modest economic growth as well as political chaos.  The developmental aspect of this paradox is related to the promise [...]