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Mohammed Nuruzzaman

Mohammed Nuruzzaman is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. n He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alberta in 2003 and has taught at universities in Canada, Bangladesh and Kuwait. He specializes in international relations theory, global political economy, human rights and human security, great powers in the global order, political Islam, and politics and international relations of the Middle East. His major publications have appeared in leading peer-reviewed international journals, and he is a contributor The National Interest, E-International Relations, The Conversation, and Informed Comment.

Iran
Trump caught in Iran War Trap of his own Making

Trump caught in Iran War Trap of his own Making

Mohammed Nuruzzaman

Kuwait City (Informed Comment) – Iran–US tensions have reached the tipping point. The downing of a Global Hawk RQ4C surveillance drone, a high prized US military asset, by the IRGC air defense forces on June 21, has pushed the two enemy nations to the brink of war. A shooting war may break out at any […]

Qatar
How Saudi Arabia lost out to Iran and Turkey over failed Qatar Blockade

How Saudi Arabia lost out to Iran and Turkey over failed Qatar Blockade

Mohammed Nuruzzaman

Qatar’s capacity to make quick diplomatic and economic adjustments to weather the impact of the blockade has saved it from a possible collapse

North Korea
Why does Trump want to Sabotage the Iran Deal but to Negotiate with North Korea?

Why does Trump want to Sabotage the Iran Deal but to Negotiate with North Korea?

Mohammed Nuruzzaman

China will go to bat for Pyongyang but not for Tehran, and Iran is relatively weak

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