... the international community in the United Nations Charter quite often collides with the real resources and risks that UN Member States are willing to commit to achieve it. The horrifying levels of human suffering experienced in Somalia, Rwanda and now Syria are just some of examples of the UN’s failure to comply with its founding goal of protecting civilians from mass atrocities and violence.
The universalization of human rights and the rights of nations for political self-determination led ...
Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma and author of "Syria Comment"
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Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma and author of "
Syria Comment
".
In this special interview for the Russian International ...
... visiting Senior Fellow at the Middle East Policy Council and respected author of many articles and a number of books on Russia and the Middle East.
In this special interview for the Russian International Affairs Council Mark Katz analyzes the state of the Syrian opposition, argues that the USA is not likely to intervene in Syria, discusses what the West can do to ensure the secure transition in Syria and talks about the political future of Syria’s defector Gen. Manaf Tlass.
Transcript
Professor Katz,...
For the third time since the beginning of the bloody crisis in Syria, UN Security Council failed to adopt resolution on Syria. Security Council seems not to be able to perform its main duty – a duty to restore international peace and security, a duty to protect Syrian people from ongoing violence. The blame ...
The war in the Middle East as a consequence of the crisis of confidence in the world
In July the UN Security Council must decide what to do with the mission of international observers in Syria. Under the current mandate, which was established on April 21, 2012 Security Council resolution number 2043, their planned 90-day mandate expires on July 20th.
The Muslim fast of Ramadan is set to worsen the situation
By a dramatic coincidence, ...
... course, North Africa) to the legitimate governments of these countries.
The fourth group of questions is the reaction of the G8 leaders to the acute political problems of the modern world. The summit declaration contains a call to the Government of Syria and all the parties of the conflict to adhere strictly to the conditions of the Annan plan, calling for Iran to comply with UN Security Council resolution and the terms of the NPT, calling for North Korea to stop provocations and implement UN Security ...
Returning to collective actions. For how long?
Returning to collective actions. For how long?
The ongoing deployment in Syria of the international observers’ mission gives hope for the resolution of this conflict within a framework of the international law. Both resolutions on the establishment of the monitoring mission -
№ 2042 of April 14
and
№ 2043 of April ...
Why is the Syrian regime still holding on?
An observer of the “Arab spring” may be surprised by an amazing viability of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria. While the authoritarian regime in Tunisia managed to hold on for a number of weeks, the Mubarak ...
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Bifurcated reality
Weird beginning for a serious article?
Possibly.
But not more weird than the current phenomenon of the Middle East. “Arab spring” that only yesterday promised so much to the world, suddenly stumbled in Libya and went to a skid in Syria. And then the life turned contradictory to our perceptions. All of a sudden parliamentary elections were won by not exactly the right guys or exactly not the right guys. Democratically elected leadership of oil-reach Cyrenaica decided to separate ...
... interests of Russia in the Middle East
It’s not going to be about the grammatical peculiarities of the Arabic. In the light of unfolding events in the Arab east theoretical issues retreat. We will consider one of the most important aspects of Russia-Syrian military and technical cooperation, and namely the prospects of the Russian naval base in Syria, in the contemporary context of the Syrian dimension of the Arab spring.
Actually, Russian naval base in Tartus (about 250 km away to the north-west ...
