Iran, Iraq and Libya: What Happens When Nations Pursue Their National Interests?

Among the most disturbing video footage of recent political history, the murders of Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein surely rank quite high. While the videos were presented to the global public as the end of illegitimate political rules at that time, we today question the narrative around the murders of the former leaders of Iraq...

The Collapse of Arabia. Why Sub-Anatolia Failed and How It Can Recover

With the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, fleeing the lands he and his family governed for almost 50 years, Syria is now a failed state in the definitional sense. Although being dysfunctional for most of the past century, the collapse of the Syrian government is another case in a series of failed states in Sub-Anatolian...