Dr. Morris Mottale

In January 2020, Saudi Arabia decided to open the country to tourism.[1] The country had always been visited by religious pilgrims, but the idea of bringing secular tourists to visit historical sights was new. It was also a political decision, as according to the classical Islamic ideology that shaped the legitimization of the Saudi regime,…

Italy in 2022 underwent what some people thought of as a radical, political change for the first time since World War II. Italians saw the rise of Giorgia Meloni a leader of the major right-wing party Alleanza Nazionale and according to critics, an inheritor of the Fascist party of Mussolini that ruled Italy prior to…

One of the consequences of the War in Ukraine and the Russian invasion has been a resetting of the configuration of power in the International System. The Mullahs of Iran, in the wake of the popular revolt lead by young women, reasserted themselves internationally and while proving their national credentials by backing the Russian invasion…

I’ve been teaching War and Politics for years. This video adds much to the subject in terms of why it’s important to study conflict systematically. The war in Ukraine is a case in point.

As the Cold War ended, the United States became for a very short period of time the unchallenged power in the world, with a global optimism for a foreign new liberal order. Soon after, this was challenged by Samuel P. Huntington in his book “The Clash of Civilizations” in 1996, originally based on a 1993…

On August 29th, 2022, Basel saw again an International Zionist Conference for the 125th anniversary of the original 1897 conference led by Theodor Herzl. Herzl was the initiator and later the founding president of the World Zionist Organization. “If you will it, it is no dream,” he wrote afterwards in reference to a Jewish state…

In the last few weeks, following the official visit of the speaker of the house of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, the Communist Chinese government denounced the United States along with Nancy Pelosi because it weakened the idea of the one China policy that has been accepted by the majority of independent countries including the Unites States.…