James Denselow is director of the New Diplomacy Platform and a Middle East Security Analyst based at King's College London.

A Simple Strategy

[caption id="attachment_55226751" align="aligncenter" width="616" caption="International pressure upon the Assad regime is mounting, but will EU…

A League Apart

[caption id="attachment_55229256" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The Arab League in session"][/caption] Multilateral bodies such as the…

Scenarios for Syria

[caption id="attachment_55232748" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Fighters loyal to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) pose with their weapons in a location…

Accountability in Syria

[caption id="attachment_55238461" align="alignnone" width="620"] UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay speaks on September 17, 2012 before a…

Remembering Halabja

[caption id="attachment_55239488" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Kurdish family have their photo taken in front of a tank used during the Saddam…

The Stateless Statesmen

[caption id="attachment_55239744" align="alignnone" width="620"] A birds-eye view of the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous…

A Test of Democracy

[caption id="attachment_55240289" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqis walk past a banner with an image of provincial election candidate Salah al…

Memories of Spring

[caption id="attachment_55242290" align="alignnone" width="620"] A demonstration outside the Egyptian High Court in Cairo on April 17, 2013…

Syria's Deadly Bureaucracy

[caption id="attachment_55245087" align="alignnone" width="620"] Members of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, volunteers and military personnel stack…

The US Cavalry Is Not Coming

[caption id="attachment_55247365" align="alignnone" width="620"] US President Barack Obama walks into the Oval Office at the White House alongside…