Earlier this month, Brookings’s Democracy Dashboard released a new collection of indicators focusing on institutional functioning and capacity. By assembling a range of data in one place, researchers and other interested parties can assess trends in the behavior of the president, the judiciary, and Congress. Today, we’ll spend some time […]
Editors’ Note: Terrorist groups don’t emerge out of nowhere, and wars are perhaps the richest soil for seeding and growing violent groups of all stripes, writes Dan Byman. This post originally appeared in the Washington Post. Study after study has found no common profile of a terrorist. It is […]
Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JONATHAN POWER We in the world outside the US do not have a vote in the US presidential election in November. But that does not stop most of us from having a strong opinion on who should win. Very few non-Americans would vote Republican […]
Image Credit: The next president will face complex, dangerous risks in Syria, Iran and other parts of the region By Kerry Boyd Anderson, Special to Gulf News Published: 16:51 February 8, 2016 The United States presidential elections have entered a new phase, as Republicans and Democrats begin choosing who […]
Jan 26,2016 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL During an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, on the sidelines of the Davos World Economic Forum, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked about the Syrian conflict and how he sees it end. There is no military solution to the Syrian civil war, Netanyahu stated, but […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ben Wood; Labour Party Activist It is increasingly likely that parliament will vote in the coming weeks to give Cameron a mandate for intervention in Syria – if they choose to, MPs will be giving an extraordinary mandate to a man that fails to see the […]
Nov 11,2015 – Last updated at Nov 11,2015 JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud US Secretary of State John Kerry is often perceived as one of the “good ones” — a less hawkish top American official who does not simply promote and defend his country’s military adventurism, but reaches out to […]
CJ Werleman Friday 24 April 2015 13:26 BST With the Der Spiegel revelations of how the Iraqi Baathists plotted the rise of Isis, it’s clear regional conflicts are about politics, not Islam This week the German magazine Der Spiegel published documents that struck yet another blow to the thesis that […]
NY Times: CAIRO — With the Muslim Brotherhood pulling within reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s new Parliament, the Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests. […]