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James Dorsey

Dr. James M. Dorsey, a non-resident senior associate at the BESA Center, is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent trip to Israel solidified the Jewish state’s position at the cusp of the widening U.S.-Chinese divide.
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout may rewrite the security as well as the political and economic map of the Middle East.
COVID-19 and its economic fallout may be Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s most immediate challenge, but equally urgent is repairing strained relations with the U.S. and ensuring the kingdom’s competitiveness with Iran as the two rivals compete for China’s favor.
The Gulf states are taking contradictory approaches to the problem of ensuring that entrenched conflicts do not spiral out of control as they battle the pandemic and struggle to cope with the economic fallout.
The lesson of Egypt’s, Pakistan’s and China’s initial handling of the coronavirus pandemic is that neither self-serving autocrats nor authoritarians have the wherewithal to confront a crisis like this in a timely fashion.
As tens of thousands more refugees are shunted by Turkey towards Europe and a new phase of the brutal Syrian war unfolds, Russia, Turkey, the E.U. and the international community are being handed the bill for a flawed short-term approach to the nine-year conflict.
As the coronavirus spreads, so does its likely political and economic fallout. For authoritarians and autocrats, this could mean complete collapse.
A decade of anti-government protests in the Arab world have thrown popular trust in the military in the garbage and undermined the military’s position as one of the most trusted institutions.
The inauguration of a new Egyptian naval base on the Red Sea was a symbol of the rivalries shaping the future of the Middle East, as well as north and east Africa.
Like the previous decade, the new year—and perhaps the new decade—is likely to be marked by popular protest, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Iranian port city of Bandar-e-Mahshahr, which is experiencing great violence during the crackdown on the anti-regime protests, is a microcosm of Iran’s broader domestic problems.
The protests in Lebanon have evolved into more than a fight against a failed and corrupt government.