by Mohamed AMERSI, President of AMERSI Foundation That hot potato called Middle East…One has to be knowledgeable of history and geography to be able to understand the evolutions thereof. We are in the business of maps—of power, of ideas, of institutions. Today, two such maps are being redrawn at the same time: the strategic […]
September 1st 1939 – September 2nd 1945, the timeframe between the escalation of tensions, through the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the capitulation of Japan through the signing by Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is arguably the most geopolitically active period in modern history, actively and continuously changing the […]