Articles
English Media
In my latest article, I explore in depth the nature of concerns about a nuclear race in the Middle East, how Iran is benefiting from stirring that pot, why the invasion of Ukraine has made this scenario more likely, and what potential actors are already jumping on board the nuclear train.
Quoted in the International Business Times disagreeing with the other analysts - I believe India can overcome obstacles to displacing China, and is already taking rapid steps to do so. Besides, China's economic problems are due to many factors, not just its recent lockdown policies - and aren't going away anytime soon.
Quoted in POWER Magazine discussing the latest exciting breakthrough in nuclear fusion research and what it will take to make this source of energy commercially viable. I discuss why fusion research has been underrated and why it's important for non-government actors to get involved.
Azerbaijani Media and South Caucasus Issues
My comments on Pashinyan’s demands to have France participate in the peace talks with Azerbaijan and why it's not in Baku's interests to accept this change in the format of negotiations.
My comments on the protests in Karabakh over the role of the Russian peacekeepers in covering up for the illegal ecological excavations and why Russia is not really interested in a peaceful integration of the South Caucasus.
International Media
Quoted in Sky News Arabia سكاي نيوز عربية about US-China relations, the attempts to resolve the Taiwan crisis by Biden, the seeming rapprochement between Washington and Beijing, and why US and the CCP-led China have fundamentally incompatible visions and ways of relation to their citizens, the outside world, and to each other.
The letter I wrote last year addressed to the Spanish judiciary is quoted at length in Middle East Online in the context of Spain reopening the investigation into the Brahim Ghali entry into the country with the forged documents provided to the Polisario leader by Algeria, as Spain pursues rapprochement with Morocco following last year's crisis resulting from this incident.
TV and Podcast Appearances
Spoke to Azerbaijan's CBC TV about the international reaction to the propaganda campaign against Baku over the ongoing Karabakh demonstrations against Illegal exploitation of the natural resources/geological deposits there as well as the best way to counter local disinformation and to engage the Karabakh Armenian population.
The Washington Outsider Report on The Coalition Radio Network
Episode 68
Amazing conversation with Ksenia Svetlova about Morocco’s growing alliance with the US, likely strengthened by its agreement to supply Ukraine with T-72 parts. What MENA country is likely to be next? Has there been a shift in Israel’s position? (you may be surprised). Morocco is gaining momentum on various fronts - but why is Qatar causing additional obstacles? Check out the full video!