Saudi Arabia turns oil weapon on Iran
Saudi Arabia's decision to scupper negotiations on a coordinated oil output freeze in Doha on Sunday seems to confirm a significant shift in the...
Doha should cap a very good week for Saudi Arabia
With the price of oil on a slow bounceback ahead of the OPEC meeting in Doha and Saudi Arabia on a diplomatic charm offensive...
Money for Obama's nuclear upgrades better spent on conventional weapons
As they prepare to leave office, presidents often seek to do something about nuclear weapons.
President Bill Clinton tried to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test...
Managing the Politics of Water
This year’s World Water Day, on March 22, provides an opportunity to highlight what in many countries has become a grim reality: The availability...
Oil price war threatens U.S. sense of energy security
The political economy of oil prices in the United States is complicated.
The United States is the world's largest oil consumer and one of its...
A solid ray of economic sunshine
Amidst all the gloomy news of ratings downgrades and a slowing Saudi economy there is at least one ray of sunshine and it could...
Mr. Obama, we are not ‘free riders’
No, Mr. Obama. We are not “free riders.” We shared with you our intelligence that prevented deadly terrorist attacks on America. We initiated the meetings...
Ratings agency signals Saudi downgrades
Moody’s Investors Service has played the role of bearer of bad news for the Saudi economy. On 4 March Moody’s announced that Saudi sovereigns...
Time for a new Sykes-Picot Agreement to fix the Middle East
It's time to renegotiate the contract that put the Middle East together.
The "contract" is the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided up most of the...
After all the insults and bile, can Donald Trump become a 'unifier'?
One of the great speeches of Hollywood cinema is delivered by Marlon Brando, playing Terry Malloy, a longshoreman who dreams of being a prize...
