Hossein Askari

Hossein Askari is Iran Professor of International Business and professor of international affairs at the George Washington University.


Essays

Security

Scimitars to Plowshares

| 09.01.04

Middle Eastern regimes waste national wealth on armaments supplied by an opportunist West, and ordinary people suffer. Responsible Western nations must help break the cycle.

Commentary

Economics

The Dictator's New Clothes: Rooting Out Corruption in the Mideast

| 09.08.11

Why—and how—America must help Arab Spring protestors bring down the Middle Eastern autocrats.

Security

Slaying the Syria-Iran-Hezbollah Hydra

| 07.26.11

How Washington can take down three adversaries for the price of one.

Society

Radicalizing Islam

| 06.08.11

Why the mullahs and the al-Sauds are almost as bad for Islam as the Bin Ladens of the world.

Society

Saudi Arabia Sells Out Washington

| 06.02.11

The U.S.-Saudi alliance will end in tragedy for Washington.

Society

Arab Revolts Will Be Washington's Downfall

| 05.17.11

U.S. policy has been timid, clumsy and inept in the face of the Arab Spring. Obama should be ashamed.

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May 26, 2012