The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey

James M. Dorsey
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The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey

Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and Shifting Sands, Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa.

  1. It’s make or break for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, not only on the battlefield

    2 DAYS AGO

    It’s make or break for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, not only on the battlefield

    A week into a rebel offensive, Syria is the potential fulcrum of a tectonic reordering of Middle Eastern geopolitics with President Bashar al-Assad as a key player. That is if Mr. Al-Assad is willing to play ball this time around.

    18 min
  2. Syrian rebels are gunning for Damascus. Turkey may like the prospect

    2 DAYS AGO

    Syrian rebels are gunning for Damascus. Turkey may like the prospect

    Syrian rebels know what they want. Having captured two of Syria’s four largest cities, Aleppo and Hama, the insurgents are gunning for Homs, the country’s third largest urban center, and then the capital Damascus. That is what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would want if it doesn’t significantly accept Turkish apple carts In Washington, Moscow, and Tehran.

    13 min
  3. Ceasefire brings Lebanon’s chicken home to roost

    6 DAYS AGO

    Ceasefire brings Lebanon’s chicken home to roost

    Gulf leaders told Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati what they said to Palestinians when he asked the region’s wealthy energy exporters to fund the reconstruction of areas devastated by Israel’s war machine: “We will not pour money into a black hole. Call us when you have put your house in order.."

    16 min
  4. Israeli commander’s West Bank woes spotlight a military tied up in knots

    NOV 28

    Israeli commander’s West Bank woes spotlight a military tied up in knots

    Major General Avi Bluth, the head of Israel’s Central Command, switched roles this weekend. Suddenly, Mr. Bluth, in occupied Hebron to protect Israeli worshippers and settlers during a controversial annual pilgrimage, was not the guardian of vigilante youth but their target.

    12 min

  5. NOV 28

    Israeli commander’s West Bank woes spotlight a military tied up in knots

    Israeli commander’s West Bank woes spotlight a military tied up in knots by James M. Dorsey

    12 min
  6. ICC arrest warrants Netanyahu and Gallant open a Pandora’s Box

    NOV 24

    ICC arrest warrants Netanyahu and Gallant open a Pandora’s Box

    Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s world just shrunk considerably.

    9 min
  7. Netanyahu and Hamas A symbiotic relationship that costs Israel dearly

    NOV 22

    Netanyahu and Hamas A symbiotic relationship that costs Israel dearly

    Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, elevated to new heights the symbiotic relationship between hardliners on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Their actions helped one another sabotage compromise resolutions of their perennial dispute.

    15 min

  8. NOV 20

    Israel’s wars repeat the 1980s on steroids

    Appalled by Israel’s carpet bombing of Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon war, US President Ronald Reagan didn’t mince his words with then-Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin. “I was angry. I told him it had to stop, or our entire future relationship was endangered. I used the word holocaust deliberately & said the symbol of his war was becoming a picture of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off,” Mr. Reagan noted in his diary. The August 1982 phone call between Messrs. Reagan and Begin provides a template for the United States’ ability to twist Israel’s arm and the limits of America’s influence.

    9 min
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Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and Shifting Sands, Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa.

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