Shaky monarchies, strategic pressures, and threats to energy and shipping
The failure to date by oil- and gas-rich Persian...
Tags: civil war in Syria, Egypt, gas, Global Brief, Gulf Cooperation Council, Iran, Iran's nuclear programme, Israël, James Dorsey, Libya, Middle East security, oil, Persian Gulf, Persian Gulf security, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
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
Selling the rich on the need to help the less rich and more unequal
The development picture for this early new century...
Tags: Brazil, China, Dan Vexler, development aid, disfranchised, economic stagnation, Egypt, Global Brief, India, Nigeria, Poor, poverty, Vietnam, Western Europe, World Bank
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
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
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
Why we keep talking, talking, talking
The great 18th century French diplomat Talleyrand once said that speech was given...
Tags: Al Jazeera, communication, diplomacy, diplomat, Douglas Glover, Egypt, Global Brief, language, Marshall McLuhan, secrecy, Talleyrand, Tunisia, Wikileaks
As a philosophy of statecraft, political Islam has proved ill-equipped for the complexities of modern government. With the...
Tags: AKP, Al Qaeda, Algeria, Egypt, Global Brief, Iran, Iranian revolution, Islamists, Katerina Dalacoura, London School of Economics, political Islam, Saudi monarchy, Sharia, terrorism
In the days to come, the world will come to learn whether the Republic of Sudan – Africa’s and the Arab world’s largest...
Tags: China, civil war, Comprehensie Peace Agreement, Dinka, Egypt, John Garang, Juba, Khartoum, Lamu, oil, Omar al-Bashir, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, secession, South Sudan, South Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, SPLM, Sudan, Sudan referendum, The National Congress Party, UN Mission in Darfur
GB talks new-century politics and geopolitics – from the local to the general – with former UN Secretary-General Boutros...
Tags: Afghanistan, Africa's future, African conflicts, Arab Unity, Arab-Israeli conflict, Asian Union, Azerbaijan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Canada, Canada's future, Canada's success, Canadian nationality, diplomacy, Egypt, Egyptian elections, Egyptian politics, Ethiopia, Georgia, Global Brief, globalization, Hutu, ICJ, ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo, international affairs, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, Iran, Iran's nuclear program, Iraq, Jordan, Kissinger, Kosovo independence, League of Nations, Middle East Union, Mubarak, Muhammad Ali, One State Solution, Pakistan, Palestinians, secession, separatist movements, Sudan, Sunni-Shia divide, Syria, Tutsi, Two-States Solution, Uganda, UN reform, United Nations reform, water disputes, water shortages in the Middle East, Westphalia, winning states
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