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
The future of rights in Western Asia, as in other theatres, will require an abiding rights âcultureâ 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 Stanfordâs 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
GB discusses all things international criminal justice â from the prosecution of the Khmer Rouge leadership in Cambodia...
Tags: Andrew Cayley, Cambodia, crimes against humanity, ECCC, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Gaddafi, Global Brief, Human Rights Watch, ICC, ICC ratification, ICTY, international criminal justice, international prosecutor, Khmer Rouge, Libyan intervention, Middle East, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot, regional diplomatic conference on the ICC, Richard Dicker, Sudan, Syria, war crimes
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
Is this Berlin in 1989? Or Tehran in 1979? No one is yet certain, and the future of the region is just as uncertain
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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
GB talks new-century politics and geopolitics â from the local to the general â 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
Irreconcilable understandings of âthe peaceâ have betrayed the hollowness of saying âIâm for peace.â 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
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