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The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey

James M. Dorsey

Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and Shifting Sands,

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00:09:36

Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu could decide the Gaza...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/03

Donald Trump’s Oval Office could be Binyamin Netanyahu’s brick wall. That is if the president uses Tuesday’s meeting with Mr. Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit Washington since Mr. Trump returned to office, to ensure a successful Israeli-Hamas negotiation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement’s second phase.

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00:11:27

Trump’s Middle East plan may have legs

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/01

US President Donald J. Trump’s approach to managing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may have legs, even if Arabs and Muslims reject his call for the resettlement of Gazan Palestinians.Egypt, Jordan, and Palestinians have rejected resettlement in no uncertain terms. So have non-Arab Muslim countries like Indonesia and Albania, who the United States reportedly approached with a request to take in Palestinians. Palestinians say they voted with their feet with hundreds of thousands of Gazans returning

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00:08:50

Netanyahu flaunts his ties to the global far-right

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/29

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel’s ultra-nationalists and ultra-conservatives have turned Israel into a ‘haven’ for some Jews rather than all Jews.Not only by encouraging an intolerant, supremacist domestic environment hostile to vigorous public debate and equality for all but also by endorsing the far-right’s flirt with language and imagery that risks stoking ant-Semitism, and efforts to rewrite the history of the Holocaust, Jews’ worst calamity in modern history.

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00:12:02

Trump’s support for expelling Palestinians fans...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/26

US President Donald J. Trump risks putting relations with Saudi Arabia and other US partners in the region on a knife’s edge, sending the Middle East into a tailspin, and complicating, if not undermining, negotiations to make the three-phase Gaza ceasefire permanent rather than temporary by advocating the removal to Egypt and Jordan of 1.5 million Gazan Palestinians.

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00:12:56

Trump has everyone running in circles when it comes...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/24

US President Donald J. Trump has foreign governments, domestic constituencies, journalists, and pundits running in circles as they attempt to identify his Middle East policy.

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00:12:05

US-backed Israeli efforts to curb freedom of...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/23

US President-elect Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may soon diverge in their approaches to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Yet, the Trump administration is set, as a ceasefire takes effect in Gaza, to cement suppression of criticism of the Jewish state, a pillar of Israel’s long-standing effort to manipulate US and international public opinion and squash public censure.

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00:09:15

Trump puts Israelis and Palestinians on a knife’s edge

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/16

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may welcome two Middle East policy goals articulated by US President-elect Donald J. Trump in response to the Gaza ceasefire but may not like what it will take to achieve them.The same is true for the Palestinians, including the West Bank-based, internationally recognised Palestine Authority and Hamas.

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00:25:07

The Middle East’s New Jigsaw Puzzle

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/15

Decimating Hezbollah and ousting President Bashar al-Assad were the first steps in a Middle Eastern power struggle that is likely to define not only who wields the most influence in Syria but also who will emerge as regional hegemons. Turkey, Israel, and Iran are prime candidates, with countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar playing catch up, at least in Syria. The line-up in Syria reflects the likely longer-term divvying up of influence regionally in a complex jigsaw

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00:11:47

Saudi Arabia and international sports, a tale of...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/12

Saudi Arabia brings out the worst in the world of international sports in terms of politics and greed. FIFA’s awarding Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup hosting rights is just the tip of the iceberg. The awarding violated the world soccer body’s human rights policy and mocked the sports world’s fiction that sports and politics are separate rather than Siamese twins joined at the hip. The Olympic Council of Asia’s earlier awarding of the 2029 Asian Winter Games to Saudi Arabia, even though the

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00:13:03

Iran Fears Setback May Open A Pandora’s Box

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/09

With Donald j. Trump two weeks away from returning to the White House, Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) fear that recent setbacks could open a Pandora’s box. Israel’s puncturing of Swiss cheese-sized holes in the Iran-backed Axis of Resistance has upended the Islamic Republic’s forward defence strategy, raised questions about the future of the IRGC’s Quds Force, its foreign operations arm, and risks turning Iran into a tradeable geopolitical commodity.

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00:16:52

Israel’s Military Has A Crisis Even If It Refuses To...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/07

Israel’s once-vaunted military faces an uncertain future. Not just because the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to judge Israel's Gaza war conduct and the issuance by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of arrest warrants for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. But also due to assertions that the military is unable or unwilling to enforce discipline, questioning of the military’s capacity to investigate itself, a long-held US-supported holy grail

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00:11:53

Putting Humpty Dumpty together in Syria

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/05

Israel’s demolition of the ill-equipped Syrian military and the recent occupation of additional Syrian territory beyond the Golan Heights it conquered in the 1967 Middle East war is just one obstacle. So is a daunting list of challenges that, if unresolved, threaten the new Syrian rulers’ ability to rebuild an economy ravaged by 14 years of civil war and, potentially, the country’s territorial integrity. The challenges include Turkey’s military presence in northern Syria, fighting between a

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00:03:37

How important is the Syrian Foreign Minister's first...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/02

The new leadership in Syria has dispatched officials to Saudi Arabia, for the first official visit outside the country. The delegation is being led by Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani, the defense minister and the head of intelligence services. James M. Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, discusses the importance of the Syrian government's efforts to rebuild ties with Arab nations.

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00:11:46

Saudi Arabia balances ‘tolerance’ with support for...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/01

Once viewed as a breeder of religious extremism, Saudi Arabia earned brownie points as the international community sighed a sigh of relief when Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, substantially reduced global funding of ultra-conservative strands of Islam and started to propagate a socially more relaxed interpretation of the faith.Almost a decade later, the benefits of the change far outweigh the costs.

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00:09:46

Israel’s Middle East war-Yemen definitely next, maybe...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2024/12/27

Much like Hezbollah miscalculated with its 15-month-long war of attrition against Israel, Yemen’s Houthi rebels risk being the next target in Israel’s campaign to rewrite the Middle East’s political map. “We will act with strength, determination, and ingenuity. Even if it takes time, the result will be the same as with other terrorist arms,” said Prime Mi Netanyahu said on Monday. Some Israelis suggest that to effectively target the Houthis, Israel should simultaneously emasculate Iran, already on

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00:17:46

Turkey dreams of a neo-Ottoman Middle East

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2024/12/25

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fall has seemingly turbocharged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman dreams.

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00:08:35

Syria faces enormous challenges

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2024/12/20

James M. Dorsey discusses on Radio Islam International the enormous challenges Syria confronts in the wake of the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad.

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00:12:35

A US-Israeli masterclass in how to discourage change...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2024/12/18

US and Israeli responses to President Bashar al-Assad’s fall offer a masterclass on how to discourage change in Syria.Rather than test and encourage Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, US and Israeli actions seem designed to box him in and potentially set him up for failure.

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00:23:34

Syria may be tired of war, but war may not be tired...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2024/12/16

Syrian rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, appears to be a man who picks his battles.

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00:10:00

Picking up the pieces-Russia and Iran seek to limit...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2024/12/13

Policymakers in Tehran and Moscow are asking who lost Syria in a tectonic rewrite of the Middle East’s geopolitical map that has ousted President Bashar al-Assad ‘s principal backers struggling to limit their losses.

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