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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSaudi Arabia's new best friend: IndiaAfter being let down by Pakistan, Saudi has turned to India for trade and defense cooperation – while Iran has...
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Published in: HomeWhy did David Cameron reject this essay from his anti-corruption book?Readers can judge for themselves why this contribution by a veteran politician to the UK prime minister's volume on...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe strange case of Dr Saud and Mr JihadRobert Louis Stevenson’s famous novel, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, provides a useful metaphor for Saudi Arabia and its...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat we’ve learned from fifty years of Saudi arms dealsArms deals with Saudi Arabia say a lot about British political culture and foreign policy. And not in a good way.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCan the Saudi-led coalition win the war in Yemen?Those deciding for war in March 2015 gave little thought to Yemeni realities, military, logistic, topographic,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe reckless power behind the throneKing Salman's son Mohammad seems to be piloting Saudi Arabia into a series of ever more risky adventures.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSaudi executions: beyond the numbersThe inability to recognise an affront to the rule of law, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, reveals the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCan Yemenis escape?So what are Yemenis to do? Close the doors of their houses and slowly die of starvation and thirst? Or move en...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere is the outrage on David Cameron’s scandal in the Gulf?The UAE, we now know, was busy planning its own operation against Muslim Brotherhood affiliates at home while urging...
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Published in: HomeIf ISIS uses chemical weapons, the west will be partly responsibleHow can the international community respond effectively and promptly to this growing threat, not just to the Middle...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSaudi blockade threatens famine in YemenYemeni civilians are starving as the international community tacitly allows the blockade to continue. It must be...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Vienna Talks are the first serious attempt to end the war in SyriaThe US is finally playing the role of facilitator, not party to the conflict. That is a good sign, and a hopeful one...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe's refugee-loveFear pushes us to know the social and political determinations of refugees from a right-wing perspective ('are they...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia'Something wicked this way comes': the Arab transitions (part 1)An excerpt from a NOREF report on the background to the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on the...
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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: HomeSaudi Arabia's game of thronesIn the round of 'royal musical chairs' that played out two months ago, the Sudairi branch of the royal family...
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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 AsiaPalestinian unity: a dream buried deep?Neither Fatah nor Hamas are willing to accept power sharing, and the division between them is no longer merely...
