Publications by Norman A. Bailey
The Middle East becomes curiouser
Events and players in the region are refusing to conform to any rational pattern
Publication Date: February 12, 2013
It is well-known that Alice found things in Wonderland becoming "curiouser and curiouser." The Middle East is the new Wonderland and things are indeed becoming "curiouser." {read more}
Welcome to chaos
The new Israeli government will have to deal with resurgent terrorism and collapsing states on all sides.
Publication Date: January 31, 2013
The spread of al-Qaida-influenced insurgency and terrorism has resulted in an emergency in Algeria, until now immune from the general movement of events; and the necessity of French military intervention in Mali to prevent the overthrow of the government in that country. {read more}
Israel navigates choppy international waters
The geo-political panorama is changing with ever-increasing rapidity.
Publication Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The year 2013 is opening on an international geo-political panorama that is changing in startling and fundamental ways with increasing rapidity. {read more}
A bright economic future - if we don't spoil it
Recent technological developments hold out the promise of a new industrial revolution, but we must learn to spread the wealth.
Publication Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2012
The news that after seventeen years the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally approved the production and sale of genetically-modified (GM) salmon, which grows twice as fast as ordinary salmon, may open the door for many other GM foods, which have been blocked both in the U.S. and in Europe primarily by environmental and animal rights groups, who have demonized GM by referring to its products as "frankenfoods." {read more}
Seeking to contain China
China's emerging ability to project power is leading to rapid change in military and diplomatic configurations in the Far East.
Publication Date: Sunday, December 23, 2012
The geopolitical configuration of the Far East is changing with astonishing rapidity. {read more}
Chavez: Bad news and good news
The demise of the Venezuelan president will be bad for the likes of Hezbollah and Hamas, but very good for the US and Israel.
Publication Date: December 17, 2012
Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, is dying. This is bad news for him, his followers and allies. He has named the vice president, Nicolas Maduro, as his successor when he dies or is forced to resign. {read more}
A neglected front
Israel is failing to counter, or even monitor, Hezbollah and Iranian activity in Latin America.
Publication Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012
The reelection a few days ago of Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela has brought into sharp focus an area of the world that has been seriously neglected by the Israeli government since the Buenos Aires bombings of the Israeli Embassy and the Jewish Center in the 1990's. {read more}
A clearer Middle East picture
Events of the past few days allow us to understand the positions of Egypt, Turkey and Iran rather better.
Publication Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
In the past few days, several conundrums have been cleared up: 1. The Egyptian regime is at one and the same time repressive and incompetent, a toxic combination. Persecution of the Coptic Christians in the name of Islam is growing steadily, resulting in both an internal and an external refugee crisis. {read more}
Descent into anarchy
The cause of secularism and moderate Islam is in headlong retreat in our region
Publication Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012
The events of the past few days, from Libya to Afghanistan and from Syria to Mali indicate a huge region descending into anarchy, chaos and entropy. {read more}
The Kurdish challenge
Will the Western powers be able to take advantage of a new force in the Middle East power struggles?
Publication Date: Monday, August 20, 2012
The Kurds are an ancient Indo-European people whose origin is unknown, but who have inhabited the area of the Zagros and Taurus mountains of the Middle East since the beginning of history. They are divided into clans and tribes and currently inhabit portions of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The most famous Kurd in history was Saladin (Salah-al-Din), the scourge of the crusaders. They have never had their own homeland but have always lived in areas ruled by other peoples. {read more}
