What happens when a tyrant flees
What's next for Syria, Assad, and the wider region?
John Jenkins
John Jenkins is a joint strand leader at Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics, and a former senior British diplomat who served in Jerusalem and then as ambassador to Syria, Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia.
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Was Israel wrong to trust Qatar?
Doha hosts Hamas as part of a cynical geopolitical game.
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The lights that failed
Why the cause of liberal democracy collapsed in the Middle East.
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An alternative Middle East
In 1979 the forces that have left the Islamic world in chaos were unleashed – but it didn’t have…
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Across the Middle East, they are done with false prophets
Demonstrators in Iraq and Lebanon have stood their ground for seven weeks, but to succeed, protest movements need credible leaders,…
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The war between the Middle East wars
Conflict between Israel and Iran seems increasingly inevitable now the US has torn up the nuclear deal. But if –…
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The new great game in the Middle East
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Iran has become ever more powerful in the region. But now…
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Why have the other Gulf states severed ties with Qatar?
For those of us who have watched the region for decades, this crisis did not come out of nowhere.
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Were the US strikes payback against the Assad regime – or Barack Obama?
The attack on the airbase was exactly the action we expected to see from the Obama administration in August…
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