September 30, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Articles • Tags: Assad, Iraq, Islamic State, jihadis, Syria •
Embracing Assad Is a Better Strategy for the U.S. Than Supporting the Least Bad Jihadis WORLD POST/ HUFFINGTON POST Posted: 09/29/2014 7:05 pm EDT The Middle East today is in as big a mess as I’ve seen it in a lifetime. By most measures it still continues to worsen, as ever new enemies to the […]
August 27, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: foreign policy, Islamism, Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar, revolution, Turkey •
140825 –Qatar’s “Maverick” Foreign Policies 26 Aug 2014 Speculation has run high over the past several years about what Qatar is up to in the Middle East. At first blanch its foreign policy seemingly contains a mass of contradiction: a Wahhabi state, good ties with Iran, hosting a major US airbase, support for the Muslim […]
August 26, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Articles •
Avenging James Foley Huffington Post -World Post 25 August 2014 by Graham E. Fuller The ghastly killing of journalist James Foley–more than merely savage–was quite calculated to induce terror and to influence. And it did. Indeed, to discuss his death in a broader political context at this point may seem distasteful, clinical, and disrespectful to […]
August 6, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog •
The wild pace of Middle East events have generally kept me preoccupied with watching events mainly there, at the expense of the rest of looking at issues in the rest of the globe. But for well over a year or more now I’ve grown increasingly uncomfortable with US policy towards Russia ever since the end […]
July 7, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Articles •
Who’s Afraid of the Caliphate? The threat of a “caliphate” to the West was central to George W. Bush’s inflamed rhetoric in his Global War on Terror, invoked to justify the launch of several wars in his own “jihad” over the next decade. But just how fearsome a concept should it be to us? Read […]
July 7, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog •
Who’s Afraid of the Caliphate? Graham E. Fuller 7 July 2014 Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-e-fuller/isis-caliphate-meaning_b_5562600.html?utm_hp_ref=world The astonishing success of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in establishing a “state” across north-western Iraq and north-eastern Syria in the last weeks represents an strategic watershed in the advance of jihadi fighters and their radical ideology […]
June 17, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog •
Read article at Huffington Post here The astonishing ability of the militia forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to take over several Iraqi cities reveals more about the dismaying weakness and divisions within Iraq than it does about the military prowess of ISIS. Yet this is not some jihadi apocalypse. ISIS […]
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The ISIS Phenomenon: How Does It End?
November 24, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog •
The ISIS Phenomenon: How Does It End? The ISIS Phenomenon continues to astonish—to notch up innovative new features in Islamist politics that suggest a deepening ability to exploit and feed off long-term accumulated Muslim grievances. What are the logical end-points of extremism at which these forces finally reach terminal collapse? What kind of prognosis […]
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