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JMD: Saudi Prince Mohammed’s Religious Moderation Unlikely to Change Asian Realities
By James M. Dorsey Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be seeking to revert his kingdom to an unspecified form of moderate Islam but ... -
Pakistan Struggles To Get a Grip On Militancy And Ultra-conservatism
By James M. Dorsey Seventy years after its birth, Pakistan is struggling to get a grip on Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism ... -
JMD: International soccer bodies ignore blatant rule violations in run-up to Egyptian election
By James M. Dorsey International soccer bodies, in violation of their own bylaws, have ignored the blatant mixing of sports ... -
JMD: Smoking And Drinking: Churchill Sets An Example Today’s Western Leaders Can Learn From
By James M. Dorsey To understand that Western emphasis on human rights is at best a fig leaf to do ... -
Arabs Leverage Lucrative Nuclear Contracts To Enhance Security And Keep Options Open
By James M. Dorsey Controversy in South Korea over a secret military clause in a nine-year old agreement to build the United ... -
The Middle East’s Nuclear Technology Clock Starts Ticking – JMD
By James M. Dorsey The Middle East’s nuclear technology clock is ticking as nations pursue peaceful capabilities that potentially leave ... -
JMD: China’s Dilemma: Balancing Support for Militants with Struggle Against Political Violence
By James M. Dorsey China’s recent failure to shield Pakistan from censorship by an international anti-terrorism funding and anti-money laundering ... -
China’s Step into the Maelstrom of the Middle East, by James M Dorsey, RSIS
James M Dorsey, RSIS The Middle East has a knack for sucking external powers into its conflicts. China’s ventures into ... -
Tackling Pakistani Madrassas: An Uphill Struggle
By James M. Dorsey This is an edited version of remarks by James M. Dorsey at the launch in Islamabad ... -
Iran: Protests and Threat of Renewed Sanctions Focus Economic Thinking
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps logo By James M. Dorsey Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears in the wake of ... -
Whither Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s ‘Moderate’ Islam? – JMD
Img Credit: algeriepatriotique By James M. Dorsey Recent Algerian media reports detailing Saudi propagation of a quietist, apolitical yet supremacist and anti-pluralistic ... -
Gulf Crisis Turns Qatar into the ‘Region’s Israel’
Qatar airbrushed from map in UAE / Credit: Simon Henderson By James M. Dorsey Prominent US constitutional lawyer and scholar Alan ...
