Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by people. This means the creation of borders is often a political exercise – ...

Last week British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said, opens new tabthe struggle against Islamic State was “effectively Iraq’s last chance as nation state.” Sign up here. That somber assessment ...

It’s time to renegotiate the contract that put the Middle East together. The “contract” is the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided up most of the Arab lands that had been under the rule of the ...