Paul Aarts

Bio:

Pauls Aarts teaches international relations at the University of Amsterdam.

Articles by this Author


Lions of Tawhid in the Polder	The murder of the controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a radical Islamist youth induced a deep national trauma in the Netherlands. Very quickly, debate about the murder and the subsequent outbreak of anti-Muslim violence led to a larger and...	MER235
"Iraq Is Not a Lost Battle"	Isam al-Khafaji, a contributing editor of Middle East Report, is an Iraqi social scientist. As a young faculty member and a left-wing intellectual, he was forced to leave Iraq in 1978 during campaigns of forced...	MER228
Oil and the Gulf War	No blood for oil! The rallying cry of many of those who took to the streets in protest against the Gulf war is simple. Is it too simple? “Even a dolt understands the principle,” said one unnamed US official, “We need the oil....	MER171