Bobby Ghosh

Ghosh, a former TIME foreign correspondent and International Editor, is a commentator on geopolitics.

Recent Articles

Iran's Mullahs Backed the 1953 Coup. What Will They Back Next?

Iran’s political barometer is still held in the hands of the men in robes.

By Bobby Ghosh

Why Doing Nothing on Iran Might Be Trump’s Hardest Choice

When an American president makes promises to people in the streets and abandons them, they remember, and so do people in the next country, facing the next dictator.

By Bobby Ghosh

Trump Has No Good Options On Iran

As brave Iranians challenge the repressive regime in Tehran, the U.S leader faces three paths, each worse than the last.

By Bobby Ghosh

Iranians Are Protesting. Reza Pahlavi Can’t Save Them

Ahmed Chalabi had far more resources and backing than Reza Pahlavi—and still failed spectacularly in Iraq. Iranians deserve better than fantasies of pretenders in exile.

By Bobby Ghosh

Why Trump’s Venezuela Strike Should Scare Taiwan

The debate over whether seizing Nicolas Maduro emboldens Beijing asks the wrong question, argues Bobby Ghosh.

By Bobby Ghosh

Venezuela Isn’t Panama—No Matter How Much Trump Wishes It Were

The capture of Maduro is the easy part. What comes next will test whether America has learned anything from its recent history.

By Bobby Ghosh

Erdogan’s S-400 Trouble Was of His Own Making

Turkey’s president is learning the hard way that nationalist posturing makes for bad foreign policy.

By Bobby Ghosh

Why Iran Is Going After Its Best

Iran has always been brutal toward its critics but the current wave of repression in Tehran has a scent of panic.

By Bobby Ghosh

Dubai Chocolate Swells U.A.E. Soft Power

The unexpected success of the Dubai chocolate has soft power lessons for the United Arab Emirates.

By Bobby Ghosh

Can Hamas Still Control Gaza?

Hamas is a government, a militia, a social movement and a patronage network rolled into one. To lose power in Gaza is, for Hamas, to lose its very reason for being. 

By Bobby Ghosh

What Trump Does—and Doesn't—Get Credit for in Gaza

President Donald Trump helped secure a ceasefire in Gaza. Now, he must see this fragile peace through to something more durable.

By Bobby Ghosh

Modi Can’t Afford to Cut Ties with Trump

After meeting with Xi and Putin, India's Prime Minister "will need to find a face-saving way to make up with Trump," writes Bobby Ghosh.

By Bobby Ghosh

Trump Is Seduced by a Summit, Again

Trump mistakes the buzz of activity, the presence of cameras, the gravity of the moment for actual achievement.

By Bobby Ghosh

Football Comes Home

Brazilians are ambivalent about hosting the world cup, but, as these superfans show, their passion for the sport is undimmed

By Bobby Ghosh

Football Comes Home: Soccer as Religion in Brazil

Brazil-based Sebastián Liste took these powerful photos of soccer fans and soccer players in Rio de Janeiro, for whom football is no mere pastime, it is a religion.

By Bobby Ghosh

How I Finally Got My Picture With Pelé

This week, TIME International editor Bobby Ghosh stood for a photograph with the Brazilian soccer legend Pelé—a snap that both fulfilled a childhood dream and ended a journalist's longstanding frustration

By Bobby Ghosh

No, Iran's Rouhani Doesn't Tweet

Time to stop imagining he's some kind of hipster-cleric and judge him by what he does

By Bobby Ghosh

Will Japan and China Go to War?

Japan's Abe worries a conflict could be sparked by something unexpected

By Bobby Ghosh

Whom to Watch at the World Economic Forum in Davos

As the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicks off Tuesday in the snowbound Swiss town of Davos, more than 40 heads of state and government will be competing to make a lasting impression, for themselves and...

By Bobby Ghosh

The Superstar and the Sex Symbol: The World's Highest Ranking Chess Champions

When Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen lean over the chessboard at Chennai’s Hyatt Regency on Nov. 9 for Game 1 of the World Chess Championship, it will mark the coming together of the sport’s first superstar with its first sex symbol.

By Bobby Ghosh
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