James Gelvin gelvin@history.ucla.edu gelvin@history.ucla.edu James Gelvin is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Most Recent Turkish Attack on Syria Endangers a Remarkable Democratic Experiment by the Kurds James Gelvin Load More Latest Articles 1 After the Doha Airstrikes, Can the Gulf Trust Washington? by Obaidurrahman Mirsab 2 Can Asia Copy the Best Bits of NATO Without Cracking? by Ju Hyung Kim 3 Europe’s New Green Rules Could Make Your Groceries Pricier by Jason Reed 4 Why White Christian Nationalists Hijacked Trump’s Bureaucracy by Scott Douglas Jacobsen 5 India’s Sudarshan Chakra Has Blind Spots by Patrick Austin