BAHRAIN´S SHIITE-SUNNI APARTHEID / GEOPOLITICAL FUTURES

Bahrain’s Shiite-Sunni Apartheid  The country’s Shiite majority has for generations been treated as an oppressed minority.  By: Hilal Khasha...

THE NEW SHAPE OF THE MIDDLE EAST / GEOPOLITICAL FUTURES

The New Shape of the Middle East By George Friedman The Middle East has assumed a different shape and structure in recent years. Nowh...

THE SUNNI ARAB CRISIS OF LEADERSHIP / GEOPOLITICAL FUTURES

The Sunni Arab Crisis of Leadership By Kamran Bokhari Now that the Islamic State has been forced out of Mosul, Iraq’s Sunnis and histo...

A CHASM AT THE HEART OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS / THE FINANCIAL TIMES COMMENT & ANALYSIS

A chasm at the heart of the Syrian crisis David Gardner   The lack of mainstream Sunni leadership is a blight across the Middle ...

TO DEFEAT ISIS, CREATE A SUNNY STATE / THE NEW YORK TIMES OP EDITORIAL

Op-Ed Contributor John Bolton: To Defeat ISIS, Create a Sunni State By JOHN R. BOLTON   .                                        ...

A PATH OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST COLLAPSE / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OP EDITORIAL

Commentary A Path Out of the Middle East Collapse With Russia in Syria, a geopolitical structure that lasted four decades is in shamble...

WHY SHIITE EXPANSION WILL BE SHORT- LIVED / STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE

Why Shiite Expansion Will Be Short-Lived   May 12, 2015 | 09:15 GMT         Iraqi demonstrators hold up pictur...

THE MIDDLE EASTERN BALANCE OF POWER MATURES / STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE

The Middle Eastern Balance of Power Matures By George Friedman March 31, 2015 | 08:01 GMT Last week, a coalition of predominantly...