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Published in: HomeHolding on to the status quo, Gulf States seek political unityIf the Gulf Cooperation Council wanted to support democracy and stability, they would have invested in Tunisia and...
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Published in: openSecurityDangerous and provocative - is this Iran or the US?
Iran captured a CIA Sentinel drone - now the Republicans want Obama to "go get it"
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Published in: HomeWater in the Arab SpringWater scarcity in the Middle East & North Africa is at the root of the region’s uprisings. In the coming years, it...
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Published in: openSecurityDamping the powder-keg: Paul Ingram responds to 'Playing with fire in the Middle East'
In the context of worsening relations between Iran, Syria and the west, Saeed Rahnema gave a bleak assessment of the...
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Published in: HomeThe Kurds’ place in the ‘Arab Spring’
Seen as a relatively safe haven in northern Iraq, considered a terrorist threat by Turkish authorities, and...
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Published in: HomeA dangerous transition in the 'greater Middle East'
Revolutions have overthrown post-colonial regimes throughout the Middle East and north Africa, but the region is...
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Published in: HomePlaying with fire in the Middle East
As relations between Iran and Syria and the west deteriorate further, what are the possible outcomes of this...
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Published in: HomeSteps to a democratic Libya
This misguided but determined focus on the ‘continuing’ threat of Sha’ria law in Libya and other North African...
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Published in: HomeArab freedom vs geopolitics: a time of risk
The Arab spring of 2011 has entered a new phase. In this period, the emerging dangers to the fulfilment of its...
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Published in: HomeExpect delays: UN Security Council reactions to the Syrian chapter of the Arab Spring
The inconsistent reaction of the UN Security Council to the ongoing Syria crisis reveals several major underlying...
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Published in: HomeThe EU in the Arab spring
The EU has a choice to make: does it want to assert itself as a normative power, or does it want to stay an...
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Published in: HomeUS shock doctrine – Libya style
It has been relatively easy for NATO to violate UN Resolution 1973 in part because of the splits of the peace...
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Published in: HomeWestern complicity in the crimes of the Ben Ali regime
Often overlooked in the western press have been the collective, or one could say national, grievances of the...
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Published in: HomeThe man and the machine: in search of Barack Obama
In his first two years in office, President Obama had six foreign-policy goals. None has been achieved.
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Published in: HomeA human right to resistWe need the international community to favour the worldwide groundswell of civil resistance over armed violence....
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Published in: HomeHumanitarian wars and rejected refugees
For France, acting in a ‘humanitarian’ manner means intervening in Libya’s civil war but does not extend to freely...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab Revolution will not be televised in Latin America
The position of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) on the crisis...
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Published in: HomeInching closer towards moral breakdown
The truth about western humanitarian interventions is a moral truth
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Published in: HomeIslamophobia and the Arab spring
If the opportunity can be seized to help more people to build prosperous lives of liberty in their own countries,...
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Published in: HomeRethinking Euro-Med policies in the light of the Arab Spring
The uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have swept away decade-old dictators, but not their regimes....
