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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRecolonising international law: Israel’s naval blockade against GazaIsrael invokes the privileges of engaging in international armed conflict but denies Palestinians their...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe new war for the Middle EastISIS has stepped opportunistically into the vacuum created by the absence of state, loss of shared narrative and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAmerica's not so exceptional foreign policyWhat can explain the myopia of US policy towards Sudan, when it knows Sudan has been facilitating ISIS in Libya,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGaza's dark nightPalestinians want to leave. Nothing else. All Palestinians. Because there is not even drinking water anymore in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe limited effectiveness of US Middle East policyThere's not much the US can do in a post-Saddam Middle East except practice containment (and keep up...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA solution for Syria (part 1)Syria is central to the security and future of the Middle East, but conditions for a resolution of the Syrian...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA solution for Syria (part 2)This excerpt from a NOREF expert analysis outlines the steps that need to be taken to transfer power to a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaReligion, class, and Turkey’s new leftA response to Kenan Malik, arguing that though he is right to worry about identity politics, in the case of Turkey...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBook review: Enemy on the EuphratesIan Rutledge’s book, Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914–1921...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWe need an ICJ ruling on SyriaGetting the world’s most respected judicial body to weigh in on Syria might not stop the regime from bombing...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe utter failure of the international community to protect civilians in SyriaThe Syrian people need an immediate no-fly zone, and for the alternatives to IS/Da'esh and Assad to be taken seriously.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe United Nations and a peace process strategy for SyriaA NOREF policy brief providing a series of recommendations for the development of a peacemkaing strategy for Syria,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaProspects for a future KurdistanA future independent Kurdish state faces many political, economic, and administrative challenges, but its success...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIslamic State: more popular than you thinkThe powerful rise of religious fascism, though exacerbated by economic and political crises, is rooted in the ethnic...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe looming threat of ISIS in SudanISIS is succesfully recruiting among disaffected Sudanese youth, and not enough is being done to stop it.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Syrian impasse: navigating hard truths and the road forwardUS diplomatic efforts to quell violence in Syria have been halfhearted and ineffective.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe age of 'white men in suits'White men in suits support Arab autocrats while the suffering many are vilified as dangerous to the fabric of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOut of the Middle EastIt is time for Arab Gulf countries to stop being on the defensive and to accept their responsibility for what is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSpilling the beans, Riyadh styleWith recent events, the Saudis are involuntarily proving Obama's point: petrodollars and weapons cannot buy them...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe dilemmas of migration and the alternativesNormal 0 false false false NO-BOK ZH-CN X-NONE Force and denial are not going to solve the migrant crisis—instead we...
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