Opinion – The Politics of Presence: Do High-Level Visits Matter in Preventing War?
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Arab and Muslim leaders exemplified how high-level, collective visits can amplify pressure.
Opinion – International Recognition of Palestine and the Risk of a West Bank “Frontier”
The absence of international protection over the West Bank could see it devolve into a zone of devastation, rather than Palestinian safety.
Opinion – Could the United Nations Solve the Gaza Quandary?
The UN’s peacekeeping efforts in Timor-Leste offer an example of how to break the static and bleak situation in Gaza.
Opinion – Between Food Drops and State Recognition, End Palestinian and Israeli Suffering First
The US, Europe and Arab countries will need to preside over staged and gradual negotiations, which must also include guarantees for Israel.
Opinion – Israeli Genocides in Gaza
The Israeli genocide in Gaza is a multi-faceted system of violence that combines kinetic war with infrastructural destruction, digital isolation, humanitarian deception, and settler futurism.
Opinion – European Credibility and the Illusion of Normative Power
In the light of the Ukraine and Gaza wars, Macron’s Shangri-La Dialogue speech reflects Europe’s potential, and its paradoxes.
7 October 2023 and the Battle over the New Silk Roads
An overlooked facet of the Gaza war is how it intersects with the struggle to control trade corridors across Eurasia.
Droned Lives, from Gaza to the World
Gaza has been an open-air prison camp since at least 2005, but it is current drone use that makes it an example par excellence of how life can be managed by air occupation.
The Israel-Palestine Conflict and the Effects of Trade Sanctions
Sanctions are more effective when they involve a large number of sanctioning countries and when they target high-tech products and services.
Thinking Global Podcast – Fawaz Gerges
Fawaz Gerges talks about Middle Eastern politics, political Islam, Pan-Arabism, Western colonialism, the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, and how peace may transpire.
