Middle East and Islam expert Arnold Hottinger describes how, in the recent past, Shia influence in the Middle East has been fuelled by the Iraq and Lebanon armed conflicts From
Following the thwarted attempt to blow up ten passenger planes over the Atlantic, Pakistan yet again emerged as the place where the terrorist plot has been conceived. Though Pakistan is
Interview by Jesse Brown
Sajjan Gohel is currently, Director for International Security for the Asia-Pacific Foundation (APF), which is an independent security and intelligence think-tank based in London. In addition,
Interview by Jesse Brown
George Kassimeris, a Senior Research Fellow in Conflict and Terrorism at Wolverhampton University, is the editor of The Barbarisation of Warfare just published by Hurst. He
Following the thwarted attempt to blow up ten airliners over the Atlantic, President George W. Bush declared that the world was at war with ‘Islamic fascism’. It was the
The fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is, first and foremost, an occasion on which to commemorate the victims of that terrible tragedy. However, it is also an opportunity
It's not looking good for the two Western coalitions operating in Muslim lands: not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan. The insurgency in parts of south-eastern Afghanistan is in
Did the Bush administration, before the 9/11 attacks, fail to take terrorism seriously enough? At first the contention seems unlikely, isn’t this the most hawkish administration in living
Ali Ansari is Reader in Middle Eastern studies at St Andrews University in Scotland. He is one of the UK’s foremost experts on Iran, and has recently published Confronting
Paul Rogers believes that Hezbollah won. David Ucko argues that Israel emerged as the strategic victor. What’s your view?
Two prominent voices lead the debate, but you should have
Magnus Ranstorp is Chief Scientist at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College, and perhaps the world’s leading authority on Hezbollah. His work on
John Arquilla is Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a renowned strategist, whose writings predicted the transformation from terrorist organisations to terrorist networks as early
