AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Lebanese will die of hunger if there is no bailout

03 May 2020

After four days of violent confrontations between Lebanese soldiers and civilians protesting the government’s failure to tackle the country’s economic collapse, Beirut finally adopted an economic rescue plan. ...

Double X, No Why

30 Apr 2020

The globe’s few female national leaders have tackled the coronavirus crisis more effectively and efficiently than many of their far more numerous male counterparts. Although women are the chief executives in only...

Lebanon’s COVID-19 fight is laudable

26 Apr 2020

Lebanon has, so far, successfully managed the coronavirus invasion. According to the latest count, at least 704 Lebanese have been infected by the virus, two dozen have died, and 143...

The buck stops here

23 Apr 2020

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is the nemesis and antithesis of the current occupant of the White House Donald Trump. Cuomo haunts Trump’s waking and sleeping hours because Cuomo adopts...

Erdogan faces huge domestic challenges

21 Apr 2020

While the globe is preoccupied with the coronavirus and economic meltdown, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pursuing his neo-Ottoman ambitions by projecting his country’s power on two fronts in...

Buried and Blind

16 Apr 2020

In mid-March, World Health Organisation (WHO) head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told global governments, “Test, test, test!” Testing he said is the “backbone” of the global fight against the coronavirus....

Iraqis, Lebanese not to compromise on reforms

12 Apr 2020

Inventive Lebanese and Iraqi revolutionaries driven from the streets and squares of their countries by coronavirus lockdowns are devising new means of sustaining their demands for thorough-going political reform. Those...

On the Front Line

09 Apr 2020

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man/is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;/... any man’s death diminishes me,/because I am involved in mankind....

Battles in the War Room

02 Apr 2020

Anthony Fauci is an unassuming hero in the battle against the coronavirus scourge. He is but one of many scientists around the globe seeking to contain and conquer the virus....

Heavy lies the crown

26 Mar 2020

The spectacular failure of the Trump administration to assert positive US leadership in the global fight against the coronavirus has followed years of US decline in international affairs. Due...

Michael Jansen

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