If a picture is worth a thousand words, can I choose two and not be blamed for talking too much? Continue reading “Thousands of Words”
Laws of Motion
Sir Isaac Newton once noted that “every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed.” Also known as the first of his three Laws of Motion, Newton’s basic idea is that an object that is not moving or moving in a constant speed in a straight line will stay like that until something pushes it or blocks its path. And for as much as I have been observing, reading about and analyzing Arab uprisings these days, I haven’t found a more simple explanation for them as this. Continue reading “Laws of Motion”
No Permanent Friends, No Permanent Enemies
The years have not been able to erase one of the first and most valuable lessons in politics and on the dynamics of international relations that I learned, only reinforce it. Continue reading “No Permanent Friends, No Permanent Enemies”
Eye on the East 