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
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
Israel’s own ‘Arab Spring’ suggests a far more complex national destiny, but one that is to be expected for a maturing...
Tags: Ashkenazi, David Ben-Gurion, David Tal, Fania Oz-Salzberger, Global Brief, Isaiah Berlin, Israël, Jewish identity, Jewish State, Mizrahi, Palestinian, Sephardic, WW2, Yam Tihoni, Zioanism
Projection de scénarios concernant Damas, Assad et le Moyen-Orient
Après de nombreuses semaines de contestation populaire...
Tags: Bashar al Assad, Global Brief, Israël, l'ONU, la résolution 1701, la Syrie, le régime syrien, les frontières israélo-libanaises, l’Iran, l’Union européenne, Sami Aoun
Noam Chomsky
… based on the following: religion is a personal matter; politics is a public concern. They should be divorced,...
Tags: Afghanistan, church-state, Dale Turner, democracy, fanaticism, genocide, Guy Ben-Porat, Indigenous people, Israël, liberal freedoms, Noam Chomsky, religion, religion and politics, religious fundamentalism, Said T. Jawad, secular fundamentalism, secularists, theocracy, Yassine Al Haj Saleh
Is this Berlin in 1989? Or Tehran in 1979? No one is yet certain, and the future of the region is just as uncertain
There...
Tags: Baathist dictatorship, Egyptian Revolution, Firas Al-Atraqchi, geo-strategic map, Global Brief, Iran-Iraq war, Iranian revolution, Iraq, Israël, Khomeini, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Middle East, Middle East reform, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Shah, Suez Canal, Syria
Irreconcilable understandings of ‘the peace’ have betrayed the hollowness of saying “I’m for peace.” But time is...
Tags: 1967 borders, Afghanistan, Egypt, Flotilla, gaza, George Mitchell, Global Brief, Goldstone Report, impossible peace, Iran, Israël, Israel-Palestine, Israel-Palestinian conflict, Israelis, Oslo accord, Palestine, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, peace agreement, Peace Process, Peter Jones, PLO, Syria, Turkey, US, Vice-President Biden, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin
On Modern Manifestations of Water, Human Ingenuity and Manifest Destiny
In the ‘Middle East,’ host to a great number...
Tags: Ali Mossadegh, climate change, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gholam-Ali Mossadegh, Global Brief, Golan Heights, Headwater Diversion Plan, Hydropolitics, irrigation, Israël, Jordan, Jordan River, Kurdistan Worker’s Party, Middle East, Nile, North Africa, regional cooperation, Six-Day War of 1967, Southeast Anatolia Project, Syria, the International Water Association, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, the World Water Assessment Program of UNESCO, the World Water Council, Tigris-Euphrates, Turkey, Water Carrier, water dispute, water scarcity
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