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The United States Has Unfinished Business in Ukraine and Iraq
In recent weeks, some of the international system’s unfinished business has revealed itself. We have seen that Ukraine’s fate is not yet settled, and with that, neither is Russia’s relationship with...
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Kurds Refuse To Hand Back Territory as Iraq Veers Towards Collapse
Kurdish leaders of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region have stated that they won’t be handing Kirkuk back to Baghdad’s central authority if and when ISIS is repelled. When Bagdhad’s multi-billion dollar...
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Baghdad Approaches Zero Hour and Kurds Move Towards Independence
ISIS is now claiming to have planted sleeper cells within Baghdad and has instructed these sleepers to rise up at zero hour and to aid in an assault on the Iraqi capital. Whether this is merely hot air...
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Iraq’s Shia Government Can’t Reach Agreement and That Might Doom Country
The situation in Iraq is simply getting worse and worse. With the Kurds to the north moving towards independence and much of the Northwestern Sunni areas in the hands of ISIS allied militias, a strong...
View ArticleJets, explosions reported near Islamic State lines as Kurds beg for U.S. help
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View ArticleTurkey’s Geographical Ambition
Editor’s Note: We originally ran this Global Affairs with Robert D. Kaplan column on May 1, 2013. We are republishing it in light of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Aug. 10 election as Turkey’s new president....
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In Iraq, the United States and Iran Align Against the Islamic State
Summary Since June, a great deal of international focus has been on Iraq, where the transnational jihadist movement Islamic State took over large swaths of the country’s Sunni-majority areas and...
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Iraq and Syria Follow Lebanon: Reality Overcomes Cartography
Lebanon was created out of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. This agreement between Britain and France reshaped the collapsed Ottoman Empire south of Turkey into the states we know today — Lebanon, Syria and...
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Obama Declares War On Islamic State, Will It Work?
President Obama has been labeled by some as a weak President. He pulled troops out of Iraq, wavered on Syria, allowed the embassy to be attacked in Libya, and has failed to stand his ground against...
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Kurds And ISIS Fighting Battling It Out In Syria
Ayn al-Arab has now become the focal point of fighting between ISIS and Syrian Kurds. ISIS has shown a remarkable ability and willingness to change direction and fronts quickly to attack new targets....
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Iraq, Syria, ISIS And The Plan [ANALYSIS]
Back to Iraq – Weekly Geopolitical Report by Bill O’Grady, Confluence Investment Management President Obama has decided to build a coalition to dislodge the Islamic State (IS).1 The U.S. is leading the...
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China: Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces at Work in the Nation-State
“Here begins our tale: The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.” This opening adage of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, China’s classic novel of war and...
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Turkey, the Kurds and Iraq: The Prize and Peril of Kirkuk
Turkey, the Kurds and Iraq: The Prize and Peril of Kirkuk By Reva Bhalla In June 1919, aboard an Allied warship en route to Paris, sat Damat Ferid Pasha, the Grand Vizier of a crumbling Ottoman Empire....
View ArticleWhat Could Possibly Go Wrong? Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle with...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle with the Islamic State by David Morris, CommonDreams You know the joke? You describe something obviously heading for disaster — a...
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Dempsey Says Ground Troops May Be Needed In Fight Against ISIS
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and US defense secretary Chuck Hagel testified before the House armed services committee today with regards to the fight against...
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Turkey’s Predicament
Turkey’s Predicament by Bill O’Grady of Confluence Investment Management In 2013, we wrote a WGR that looked at Turkey’s likely rise to regional hegemon status.1 In that report, we made the case that...
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The Kurds And Turkey: A Complicating Issue For The West In Syria
The ongoing conflict in Syria is increasingly a multi-faceted one. The Assad government with its Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah backers is pitted against a vast array of Western-backed moderate rebel...
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Armed Conflicts – Give Peace A Chance: Mediating In The World’s Hottest War...
Armed Conflicts – Give Peace A Chance: Mediating In The World’s Hottest War Zones by Knowledge@Wharton The world spends more than $1.6 trillion a year on its armed forces and $600 million to $800...
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Iraq, Syria, ISIS And The Plan [ANALYSIS]
Back to Iraq – Weekly Geopolitical Report by Bill O’Grady, Confluence Investment Management President Obama has decided to build a coalition to dislodge the Islamic State (IS).1 The U.S. is leading the...
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China: Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces at Work in the Nation-State
“Here begins our tale: The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.” This opening adage of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, China’s classic novel of war and...
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