James M. Dorsey
ARTICLES BY: James M. Dorsey
Does Saudi Arabia Really Want Regime Change in Iran?
Officially, both Saudi Arabia and the US, which withdrew last year from the 2015 international accord that curbs the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and imposed...
China’s Threat to Worldwide Human Rights
China is leading a charge to undermine accepted concepts of human rights accountability and justice around the world. This effort, backed by autocrats, has turned...
Saudi-UAE Aid Puts Pakistan-Iran Relations on the Spot
Next month, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan expects to sign a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia on a framework for $10 billion in Saudi investment...
Indian Muslims: A Valuable Prize for Regional Rivals
The hearts and minds of Indian Muslims would be a valuable prize for Saudi Arabia and Turkey as they vie for leadership of the Muslim...
Saudi Arabia and the West’s Right-Wing: A Dubious Alliance
While purporting to be focused on promoting a more tolerant form of Islam, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman is instituting reforms that are designed...
China’s Ruthless Crackdown in Xinjiang: The Islamic World’s Achilles Heel
A disagreement between major Indonesian religious leaders and the government on how to respond to China’s crackdown on Turkic Muslims raises questions about the Islamic...
Syria Withdrawal Proves Trump Is Both Unpredictable and Unreliable
As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, President Trump demonstrated with his announcement of US troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan that his insistence the “world is...
Nuclear Energy: Saudi Arabia’s Impending Battle with Washington
Current tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia, and the kingdom’s inability to present a credible and sustainable version of events surrounding the killing of...
US Senate Resolution on Saudi Arabia Could Change Middle East Dynamics
A new, six-page draft US Senate resolution does more than portray Saudi policy as detrimental to US interests, which is striking in and of itself....
Saudi Prince Leaves G-20 Confident and Bolstered After Khashoggi Murder
First there was a high-five from Vladimir Putin. Then, for Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi, it was business as usual. At home, Saudi Arabia’s media trumpeted Crown Prince Muhammad bin...
Pakistan and Its Militants: Who Is Mainstreaming Whom?
Pakistani militants of various stripes collectively won just under 10 percent of the vote in the July 2018 parliamentary elections. Some represented longstanding legal Islamist...
The Fragility of Middle East Alliances
Three recent developments lay bare the fragility of Middle Eastern alliances and a re-balancing of their priorities: the Russian-Turkish compromise on an assault on the rebel-held...
Mohammed bin Salman: For Better or for Worse?
Saudi King Salman’s announcement that Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been put in charge of reorganizing Saudi intelligence -- at the same time that the kingdom admitted...
What the Khashoggi Murder Means for the Middle East
The death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the premises of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul threatens to upend the fault lines across the Middle...
