Tagged: Middle East

Gulf security: It’s not all bad news

Gulf states are in a pickle. They fear that the emerging parameters of a reconfigured US commitment to security in the Middle East threaten to upend a more-than-a-century-old pillar of regional security and leave...

Hezbollah is an Iranian Strategic Tool

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Hezbollah and its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, do not have the authority to independently unleash their vast rocket/missile arsenal against Israel. That is because this arsenal is an integral part of the Iranian-Israeli...

The Necessary Evil: Cartels

In a capitalist and extremely competitive world, where monopolies stagger to flourish in countries, leave aside the globe, we have been witness to an oligopoly (market characterised by a small number of firms who...