James M. Dorsey

James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, a syndicated columnist and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer. A veteran, award-winning foreign correspondent whose career focused on ethnic and religious conflict, James focuses at RSIS on political and social change in the Middle East and North Africa, the impact of change in the Middle East and North Africa on Southeast and Central Asia and the nexus of sports, politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa and Asia.

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James M. Dorsey

A battle for the soul of Islam plays out in a Bahrain courtroom

The fallacy of a US withdrawal from the Middle East

Sports are a potential bellwether of how Middle Eastern states manage their differences

Open in app or online Religion inspired the nation-state, but politics made the difference

Confronting problematic tenets of religious law: Judaism could follow Islam

Open in app or online Shaping a 21st-century world order: The nation-state vs the civilizational state

Is Central Asia and the Caucasus the Indo-Pacific’s next stop?

Are Muslim religious conservatism and political Islam making a comeback?

Shiites, not Jews, emerge as a touchstone of Saudi moderation

Gulf states test the boundaries of their agency

Rebalancing US-Saudi relations

Modi’s US visit spotlights America’s policy choices

China and others grapple with understanding what the Wagner Group revolt means

A successful Saudi sports blitz takes more than money

Autocrats shift gears by exporting repression of freedoms

Indian pundits rally in support of Europe’s anti-migrant sentiment

Bin Salman toys with religious reform

Poking the United States in the eye appears to be a Saudi pastime

The United Arab Emirates resembles US ‘Teflon President’ Ronald Reagan.

Keeping Saudi ultra-conservatism alive and kicking: Meet Sheikh Awesome