AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Hegemonistic ambitions over northern Cyprus

02 Oct 2022

In response to the US decision to end its arms embargo on the Cyprus republic, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his intention to reinforce the Turkish military presence...

A different challenge

29 Sep 2022

Protracted protests and clashes in Iran following the death in custody of the morality police of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for “bad hijab,” or improper headscarf, are quite different from previous...

Putin didn’t foresee that his army would fail to take Kyiv

25 Sep 2022

Conflicts have consequences and unintended consequences perpetrators never imagine when they launch wars. The Ukraine war is a prime case in point. While Russian President Vladimir Putin may have...

Hats, horses and hounds

22 Sep 2022

The late Queen Elizabeth II was rarely seen without one of her more than 5,000 hats on her perfectly coiffed head. She began wearing hats as a child and continued...

Queen’s funeral marks the end of her glorious era

18 Sep 2022

No country can challenge Britain in arranging displays of pomp and circumstance when celebrating royal weddings, anniversaries, and funerals. The ceremonials staged following the death of Queen Elizabeth II have...

Charles becomes King

15 Sep 2022

King Charles III, 73, has been groomed for the job but, as they say, he is his “own man” rather than a clone of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth...

Greenhouse gas emissions play havoc, claims report

11 Sep 2022

The Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) region has become a global hot spot, warming twice as fast as the world’s average rate, and a major emitter of greenhouse gases....

Last man unknown

08 Sep 2022

The body of the sole survivor of an “uncontacted” Brazilian indigenous tribe was found in a hammock outsite his straw hut in an Amazon reserve by an agent of that...

A leader who tried to rescue flagging Soviet Union

04 Sep 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev was a peacemaker, revolutionary, and visionary whose efforts to thaw relations between Russia and the West, reform the sclerotic Soviet economy, and promote a world without war came...

An exceptional leader

01 Sep 2022

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed his sadness over the death on Aug.14, her country Pakistan’s National Day, of pioneering UN official Dr. Nafis Sadik, 92, at her home in...

Michael Jansen

The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.