The Arab Spring has laid bare important contradictions in best practices in constitution-making in transitional states
Constitutional...
Proposition: The Arab Spring is, on balance, a major strategic problem for Israel
Saeed Rahnema (against): Whether or not...
Tags: Arab Spring, Assad's regime, David Tal, Egypt, geostrategic impact of the Arab Spring, Global Brief, Iran, Israël, Israel's response to the Arab Spring, Israel's security, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, political unrest, pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, religious fundamentalists, Saeed Rahnema, Saudi Arabia, self-determination, Six-Day War, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
The future of rights in Western Asia, as in other theatres, will require an abiding rights ‘culture’ that is not so much...
Tags: Arab Spring, China, culture of rights, Ecuador, Egypt, European Court of Human Rights, Global Brief, growth of democracy, Human Rights Act, Human rights culture, judicial review, Lawrence Friedman, Middle East, modernity, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Stanford Law School, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam
GB sits down with Stanford’s Abbas Milani to discuss Iran: from Tehran and Bushehr to the Diaspora
GB Where do you see...
Tags: Abbas Milani, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Arab Spring, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, Bushehr, East Germany, Global Brief, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hoover Institution, Iran's domestic politics, Iran's nuclear programme, Iran-US relations, Iranian democracy, Iranian diaspora, Israël, Khamenei, Khomeini, Pahlavi, Saudi Arabia, Shah, Sharia, Social Contract, Stanford University, Syria, Turkish democracy
Nader Hashemi
Shortly after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, wrote a column entitled:...
Tags: Akbar S. Ahmed, Alon Ben-Meir, Arab Spring, Ayatollah Sistani, Bahrain, civil liberties, democracy, Egypt, future of the Middle East, Gaddafi, Global Brief, Hezbollah, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Israël, Joel Beinin, Kuwait, Middle East peace, Nader Hashemi, Rebecca C. Lunnon, Saeb Kasm, Stanford University, Syria
Austerity, resource scarcity and technological advances will empower Al Qaeda and other violent non-state actors, just as...
Proposition: The Iraq war (launched in 2003) eventually provided oxygen for today’s Arab Spring
Shuvaloy Majumdar...
Tags: Abbasid caliphate, Arab Spring, Baghdad, democracy in the Middle East, extremist Islamism, Global Brief, Hugh Kennedy, Iran invasion, Iraqi Baath Party, Middle East, Nasserist socialism, Peter Jones, Saddam, Shiite, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Tahrir Square, Tunisian rebellion, US foreign policy, US national security strategy
The future of democracy in the Middle East and North Africa is with the unstructured, civic action networks that started...
Tags: Arab civil society, Arab democracy, Arab Spring, Arab world, Arab-Persian relations, Bahrain, civil society, Egypt, EU, European Union, Facebook, Global Brief, Green Movement, Green Revolution, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Middle East, NATO, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sunni-Shia relations, Sven Spengemann, Syria, Tunisia, Twitter, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Yemen
Just months ago, if experts, politicians and local administrators grappling with the migration influx from North Africa to...
Tags: Alessandro Callari, Arab Spring, Berlusconi, boat people, Bossi-Fini Law, Dr. Salvatore Gugliemino, Emilano Tidona, Giovanni Salvaggio, Global Brief, Italy, Lampesuda, Libya, Maghreb, Middle East, migration, North Africa, Refugees, Roberto Maroni, Tunisian migrants
