Middle East

Discussing Syrian rebels overthrow of President Bashar Al-Assad, the Ford School's Javed Ali tells ABC News "This is a devastating setback for Iran and perhaps Russia and other countries as well." Ali probes the question "Whatever becomes of this...

The Ford School's Javed Ali shared with ABC News that Syrian insurgents reaching the capital Damascus would be a "Catastrophic loss to Iran and Hezbollah and the Palestinian groups that have used Syria as a pipeline of weapons for at least a couple...

When Fox Live Now asked the Ford School's Javed Ali his thoughts on the movement of Israeli troops to the Syrian border, Ali noted that "The situation in Syria over the last few days is pretty remarkable because what's happened is a coalition of...

Speaking with Fox News, the Ford School's Javed Ali highlights difficulties for the UNIFIL to uphold peace between Hezbollah and Israel despite recent U.N. Security Council resolution 1701. Ali states, "The same issues are likely to manifest again...

 "Counterintuitive though it may seem, I believe that the latest Israeli strikes may actually have defused tensions," writes Ford Professor Javed Ali in an article for The Conversation, referring to Israel’s latest strike against Iran. He writes...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with Exame about US involvement in the conflicts in Israel. Ali said, "We are not seeing, from the US side, a response like the one we saw after 9/11, with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This...

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Over the past few years, deepening ideological and strategic divisions in many parts of the globe have suggested the arrival of a new Cold War. The coming year may reveal much about this new phase of world politics, with profound diplomatic...