The Global Atlas

While it has often been overshadowed by more pressing issues in headlines, the bellicosity Iran and Saudi Arabia have for decades shown one ...

Today marks a somber anniversary, the 70 th anniversary since the United States dropped the first of two nuclear weapons on Japan. Seven d...

Photo by United States Department of State (Public Domain) On April 2 nd , the members of the P5+1 , the European Union, and Iran re...

Iran and the P5+1 reached the deadline of their nuclear talks yesterday without any consensus. The talks have gone on for months between Ira...

Every year around Thanksgiving, it is typical, if not cliché, to sit around the table and give reasons to be thankful. This year, I’m thank...

In the early years of Pres. George W. Bush’s presidency, things had never looked better for US-Iranian relations. Iranian President Mohamma...

U.S.-Iran relations in recent weeks have been at their highest point in probably the last 4 decades, leaving many optimistic about continuin...

Two weeks ago, President Obama was carefully weighing his options for a U.S. response to allegations that the Syrian government had used c...

In the summer o f 2012 , I wrote an article on the failure of the international community to reach a voting consensus on the Arms Trade Tr...

Last November, as delineated in a past article , Israel launched a military operation targeting Islamist militants--chiefly Hamas--and thei...