Iran Frustrated Attempting to Take Charge of Arab Rising
13 December 2011 Iran was delighted by the Arab Spring, thinking it could have a big influence on the new governments' implementation. But fundamentalist Iranian ambitions remain only partially...
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Associate Fellow, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations Azadeh Pourzand is an Associate Fellow at Gateway House. She has a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of...
View ArticleDeciphering today’s Middle East
ExpertAzadeh Pourzand20 April 2012 What are the implications for India if Iran is attacked? How effective has the response been by gulf nations to their own protests? Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad, India’s...
View ArticleThe Bahrain formula
ExpertAmbassador Neelam Deo24 April 2012 With turmoil in the Middle East, a drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Iran-Israel-U.S. conflict, the international community has paid little attention to the...
View ArticleOil and Gas in Islam’s faultline
25 May 2012 Conflict over oil and gas reserves, sectarian rivalries between Shiites and Sunnis and foreign involvement interconnect as sources of instability in the Persian Gulf–Arabian Peninsula....
View ArticleSyria Briefing
Gateway House Event 5 June 20125 June, 2012When analyzing the Arab uprisings and the future of the countries in the region, we must remember that democratic polity does not form overnight. Over the...
View ArticleOn a multilateral chessboard: Iran tests India’s policy
ExpertAmbassador Rajendra M. Abhyankar13 June 2012 Apart from bilateral ties, also at play at the India-U.S. Strategic dialogue is the difficult triangulation in India’s relations with the U.S. and...
View ArticleRio+20
Global Event 20 June 201222 June, 2012Rio+20 – the short name for United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) – will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 20-22 June 2012. This will...
View ArticleIndia’s energy future: Central Asia & the Caucuses
Gateway House Event 20 June 201220 June, 2012India is increasingly looking at Central Asia for new sources of energy, especially oil, uranium and shale gas. However, as Dr. Katherine Foshko, Gateway...
View ArticleIslamism and democracy
9 August 2012 The involvement of Islamists in democratic movements is usually dismissed as a mere ruse to attain political power. However, evidence suggests that people in Muslim-majority democracies...
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