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Chess is from Iran, Poker is from Trump

Satoshi Ikeuchi Professor, Religion and Global Security, University of Tokyo The September 14 attack on Saudi oil processing facilities revealed the vulnerability of oil producing

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The War of Attribution

By: Professor. Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor, Global Security and Religion, University of Tokyo. The Middle East has been a trade show ground for the advanced weapons

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Iran Plans for what’s More Important

The bombardment of Saudi Aramco oil facilities (Abqaiq and Khurais Labs) on Sunday, 15 September 2019 has led to reduce the Saudi oil production to

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Decisive Attacks and Decisive Votes

By: Professor. Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor, Global Security and Religion, University of Tokyo. The attacks by drones and cruise missiles on ARAMCO’s oil processing facilities in

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Closing of the Mind of the War on Terror

By: Professor. Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor, Global Security and Religion, University of Tokyo. President Trump fired his hawkish national security adviser John Bolton, for their fundamental

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Autumn of Dialogue

By: Professor. Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor, Global Security and Religion, University of Tokyo. Will the hot summer under the spell of war be over and an

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Southern Yemen

The Gulf region has witnessed a number of important developments in the recent period. Some of these developments are directly related to the Iran-US crisis,

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Competing Visions for the Indo-Pacific Future

By: Professor. Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor, Global Security and Religion, University of Tokyo. TICAD 7, The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), was held in

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End of the Election Season in Turkey

By: Professor. Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor, Global Security and Religion, University of Tokyo. Election is an integral part of democracy. If the public cannot demand accountability

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Another Important Election

By: Professor. Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor, Global Security and Religion, University of Tokyo.  It is not only the re-run of Israeli general elections in September or