Soleimani’s Assassination: What Will Iran Do Next?
By Navin Bapat On January 2, an American airstrike killed Qassem Soleimani in Iraq. Soleimani was the famed…
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All Stick, No Carrots: The Shortsighted Geopolitics of the Iran Sanctions
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. The Trump administration, having withdrawn the United States from the Joint Comprehensive…
Was the End of the Cold War the Beginning of the Oil Curse?
by Cullen S. Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Oil is the world’s most widely-traded commodity, and–a few alternative fuel vehicles…
Symposium: Oil and International Politics
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Oil is the world’s most widely traded commodity and the key input…
Financing Rebellion Through Maritime Piracy
Guest post by Ursala Daxecker and Brandon Prins In June 2008, a floating production storage and offloading vessel…
The Biggest Threat to the Middle East Isn’t ISIL. It’s Civil Wars.
By Barbara F. Walter The greatest threat to American interests in the Middle East doesn’t come from ISIL…
Extractive Industries in Violent Contexts: A Conversation with Luke Danielson
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues The European Union will soon vote on minerals regulation aimed at addressing…
Where is the Muslim Gandhi?
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Recently, the Korbel School’s Center for Middle East Studies hosted a dialogue…
Yemen is Even More Dangerous Than We Think
By Barbara F. Walter and Kenneth M. Pollack People think Yemen is dangerous to United States because of…
The Dangerous Mixture of Oil and Water in Iraq
Guest post by Ariel Ahram Iraq stands alone in the Arab world in having large quantities of two…