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Gulf States: Sportsmanship for Sale
With the recently concluded 2015 Men's Handball World Championship in Qatar came a sigh of relief as France…
“We continue to bleed red, blue, and orange:” The costs…
Though Polish Jewish lawyer and drafter of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of…
In Yemen, Sectarianism Trumps Nationalism
For Yemen, which is 40% Shia and 60% Sunni, there seems to be no end in sight for conflict and political…
The Fallacy of Ideological Warfare: How Overemphasis on…
The world is in the midst of an ideological war…at least this is what mainstream media organisations and…
ISIL’s Second Source of Funding: Smuggled…
It is no secret that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) makes about $1 million per day selling petrol…
Qatar’s Niche Foreign Policy
Throughout history, the normative concept of states evolved and in the modern era statehood is granted through …
The Sudanese Foreign Policy: A Two-Faced Stratagem
Unnoticed by the mainstream medias, recent leaked minutes from a secret meeting - held on 31 August 2014 and …
Debunking the ISIS Hysteria
The night before the announcement of an extended campaign against Islamic State (ISIS), national security experts…
Ebola and the Politics of Fear
"What has happened recently with Ebola reminds us that in an age of globalization and particularly global trade and…
Neither Guns Nor Butter: An Evaluation of the Conflict…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s poorest countries. Despite a huge bounty of…
ISIS and the Sacred State
The expressed mission of ISIS is the creation of a caliphate to rule over the entire Muslim ummah, the entire…
Forgotten Women of Nigeria?
Earlier this year news and social media outlets exploded with word that several hundred schoolgirls had been…