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Jul 16, 2026, 12:44 PM

Japan-Türkiye Hedging Tests India’s Indo-Pacific Bet, Greece Anchors Stability

Japan-Türkiye Hedging Tests India’s Indo-Pacific Bet. An AI Illustration

A recent article suggested that Japan may cultivate Türkiye as a “secondary strategic pillar”, raising the more important question of whether such “hedging” is compatible with the long-term partnership India expects from Japan. The key issue is whether such...

Jul 15, 2026, 9:01 PM

Beyond GDP: Why the World is Failing the Climate Justice Test

AI Illustration of Professor Robert Bullard, "the father of the environmental justice movement," who guided and accompanied researchers and activists around the world in action to reduce environmental inequality. All rights are reserved to Carmit Lubanov ©

While global leaders showcase carbon reduction targets and green transition plans, a starker reality unfolds beneath the surface. The climate crisis is not merely a physical threat of rising temperatures; it is, first and foremost, a structural crisis of...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 15, 2026, 6:10 AM

This Is How America Wins in Iran and Weakens China

In the last two weeks, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has repeatedly claimed responsibility for missile strikes on several oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, branding the vessels as “offending supertankers that ignored warnings, turned off their...

Jul 14, 2026, 5:42 PM

Is Israel Misreading the Middle East?

On October 7, the illusion of Israel’s technological invincibility was shattered. Hamas’s success that day was not merely a failure of border fences, automated gun towers, or high-tech sensors; it reflected a deeper, asymmetric cognitive imbalance. Hamas’s leadership, most...

Jul 14, 2026, 12:44 PM

Iran: The Strategic Pivot of the 21st Century

How the Strait of Hormuz, Kharg Island, and Iran’s political future could reshape global energy and Middle Eastern geopolitics. Iran is not a superpower by conventional economic or military metrics. Decades of sanctions, internal political constraints, and limited technological integration...

Jul 9, 2026, 11:56 AM

Who Controls the Tap?

For more than a century, the Middle East has been synonymous with oil. It has shaped economies, redrawn alliances, funded wars, built cities and drawn the attention of the world's great powers. Yet the defining strategic prize of the twenty-first...

Paul Mendlowitz

Jul 8, 2026, 8:11 PM

The Proof of Trump’s Ignorance of the Middle East Is in the Pudding of Mistakes

There is a familiar political pathology in America: the belief that a sufficiently loud man, armed with enough self-regard, can bully history into obedience. Donald Trump is the latest and most flamboyant specimen of this disease. He has never...

Michael Knighton

Jul 8, 2026, 3:31 PM

You Cannot Divide What You Do Not Own

When the American ambassador stood in Jerusalem this week and said that the decision about the city had been made by God some thirty-eight centuries ago, he affirmed a thing worth affirming: that Jerusalem’s status is not the gift...

Hande Gençünal

Jul 7, 2026, 6:48 AM

Borrowed Legitimacy: Israel and the US Since 1967

In the first days of June 1967, before the war had even ended, something was already shifting in a far quieter place than Israel's front lines: its source of arms. France had until then been Israel's principal supplier. Mirage...

Jul 6, 2026, 6:16 AM

The Middle East — The Memory Palace of Civilizations

The Cradle of Civilization Civilization emerged first in Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and soon afterward along the Nile. Whatever sequence historians ultimately prefer, one fact remains unmistakable: the Middle East has been humanity's most consequential civilizational crossroads...

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