Geopolitics

Conflict in the breakaway Russian province of Chechnya has been a brutal process of nationalist geopolitics. The struggle is about, on the one hand, the […]

Rapoport (2001) has identified four separate but connected “waves” or periods of modern terrorism. These waves offer not only a brief history of terrorism, but […]

In Iraq, a power struggle is taking place between the influential Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Sadr and Iran-backed Shi’ite rivals. The tussle is over who gets to […]

Background In 1973, Mohammed Daoud, the former Afghan Prime Minister, launched a successful coup against King Zahir. Daoud was more nationalist than socialist, his coup was […]