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PROXY Capabilities – The History and Future of Russian Private Military...
This is the second of a series of articles we will be featuring on Strife in the coming week looking at the role of Proxy Warfare in the 21st century by Series Editor Cheng Lai Ki. Previous articles in...
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A ‘Second Hezbollah’: The strategic value of Iran’s proxy warfare policy in...
By: Robert Andrea Qassem Suleimani – commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force. Source: Wikimedia Throughout the past thirty years, Iran has arguably been the world’s foremost expert in the use of so-called...
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Putin’s Sleight of Hand in Syria
By: Peter Kirechu Russian Su-25 Fighter Jets taking-off in Latakia. Source: Wikimedia On March 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly announced the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria as...
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The Limits of US Security Cooperation in Jordan
By: Peter Kirechu President Barack Obama Meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office on 26 April, 2013. Source: Wikimedia. The most notable feature of President Barack Obama’s...
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The Paris terror attacks and their geopolitical implications
By: Deborah Asseraf US Marines and French Gendarmie inspect weapons as part of a training exercise. Source: Wikimedia. Six coordinated terror attacks, involving seven terrorists took place in East...
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Neither Churchill nor Chamberlain: Time to Ditch the Munich Analogy
By Thomas Colley An article in yesterday’s Sunday Times set out British Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to ‘bomb ISIS in a fortnight’.[1] The article, as is so common in today’s age of spin,...
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Review: 'The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East'...
Reviewed by: Bradley Lineker & Samar Batrawi Efraim Karsh. The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East. London & New York: Bloomsbury/ Continuum, 2015. ISBN:...
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Strife Series on United Nations Peacekeeping, Part I – The Fate of UN...
By Dr Samir Puri The UN Security Council (Credit Image: UN Photo/Mark Garten) The UN’s viability to act as a peacekeeping force for good is always constrained by geopolitics. When the geopolitical...
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Just Who Are the YPG?
By Ed Nash 22 October 2018 A Manbij Military Council tank, part of the SDF, engages ISIS positions (Credit Image: Ed Nash) Donald Trump recently praised what he described as the sacrifice of Kurds...
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Widows and Children of the Caliphate’s Last Stand
By Miles Vining 9 April 2019 “They came in mostly as Burkha-clad widows with their screaming, crying, and confused children.” (Miles Vining) “She soaked a big rag with bright red blood. We put a new...
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Where Evil met its End
by Miles Vining 7 June 2019 (Miles Vining) Our relief group provided humanitarian assistance to people fleeing the last stronghold of ISIS in Baghouz, Syria. In Feburary and March 2019 we fed over...
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Feature – Shabiha in Syria and Titushki in Ukraine as Elements of...
by Daria Platonova 15 July 2019 “Titushki” on their way to Mariinskiy Park (Photo credit: Unian) Introduction Incumbent authoritarian regimes[1] can use a variety of tools to protect the status quo and...
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Franchise Jihad: The Role of the Bedouin for ISIL in Sinai
by Joseph Jarnecki A snapshot of life for civilians in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula – a region wracked by conflict between Sinai’s ISIL affiliate and Egyptian security forces (Image Credit: 2017 CGTN) The...
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War’s Invisible Killer: We Must Not Forget Populations Affected by Conflict...
by Charlotte Hooker A Syrian boy poses for a picture during an awareness workshop on coronavirus at a camp for displaced people in Atme town in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province (Image Credit: Aaref...
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The Lasting Relevance of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Case of Syria
by Etfa Khurshid Mirza Unexploded barrel bombs allegedly dropped by government helicopters are pictured here in Idlib, Syria in 2015 (Image credit: Getty Images) A history of conventions, agreements,...
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Should Female Foreign Fighters be Repatriated?
by Francesco Bruno While as devoted as their male counterparts, female Jihadis are an underexplored topic of analysis in understanding racidalisation (Image credit: AFP) It is a woman who teaches you...
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Feature – Climate Change, Conflict, and Children’s Rights Abuses: Syrian...
by Chiara Scissa In limbo in Lesbos: Doctors without Borders labelled the Mória Refugee Camp as the ‘worst refugee camp on earth’ (Image credit: Getty Images/AFP/F. Perrier) Introduction The world is...
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Conflict & Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Series: How does the Syrian...
by Dr Abdullah Alhouri Syrian Health care workers gathered in New York City calling for an end to attacks on health care facilities in Syria This article is part of our Conflict & Health in the...
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Why the Arab League cannot become a genuine ‘Arab Union’
Photo Credit: Nicolas Raymond, licensed under Creative Commons The Arab League has not succeeded in unifying the Arab world. Since Arab states are deeply divided on issues such as Iran, Islamism or...
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