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Published in: HomeLibya: the prospect of warThe military balance of Libya’s domestic conflict is raising debate about external intervention. But the strategy of...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab revolt and the colour revolutions
The fate of the popular insurgencies in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and elsewhere in the early-mid 2000s could offer...
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Published in: HomeFrance, Europe, and the Arab maelstrom
An Arab world in transformation has found France’s elite shamed by its links with the old order. A control-freak...
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Published in: HomeArab insurgencies, women in transition
The waves of change in the Arab world have women at the centre. But how will they fare as revolt turns towards a new...
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Published in: HomeAmerica and the Arab revolts: faces of power
The crisis in Libya is confronting the United States with a new awareness of its military and political constraints,...
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Published in: HomeThe global democratic revolution: a new stage
The popular risings in the Arab world belong to a wider historical process of worldwide democratic advance. But the...
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Published in: HomePostmodern Islam and the Arab revolts
The emancipatory movements in the Arab world represent an inner shift in the self-understanding of Islam - one that...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab rebellion: perspectives of power
The Arab popular awakening is provoking serious concern among state and security elites across the west. But...
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Published in: openSecurityJordan demands democracy, not disintegration
While Arabs express solidarity, the specificity of each nation must not be overlooked. In Jordan, Mohammed Hussainy...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab revolt: transformation to transition
A hurricane of change is blowing through the Arab world. Even now, many Arab regimes are still in denial. But it...
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Published in: HomeNo real freedom without dismantling the secret political police
In Egypt, police officers are needed back on the streets, protecting civilians from thugs: not the SSI back in full...
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Published in: HomeThis is our revolution, too
Maybe western leaders are afraid that, having seen what it is like when a people dictate to their government what it...
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Published in: HomeThe living history of Arab revolutions
A filmed interview of Professor Eugene Rogan; the conversation ranges from the echoes of nineteenth century...
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Published in: HomeDid the Internet matter in Tunisia and Egypt?
An audio interview in which Nabila Ramdani describes the role of the social networks in the Tunisian and Egyptian...
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Published in: HomeArab democracy rising: international lessons
The popular revolts in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the middle east are driven by a profound democratic impulse....
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Published in: 50.50Bahrain - from national celebration to day of rage
A “palm revolution” in the Gulf? Political upheaval in the desert state of Bahrain: there have been calls for a Day...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab 1989?
The uprisings sweeping across the Middle East portend a political transformation as significant as those of 1989....
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Published in: HomeWhy Mubarak must follow Ben Ali
Egyptians who are systematically raised to believe that their country’s fate is to play a leadership role in the...
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Published in: HomeUS Middle East policy: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil… just act surprised
None of the Arab Revolts of 2011 have played themselves out as yet. So it will be a while before the Obama...
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Published in: HomeIt’s not because they’re Arab
To frame the crisis in the region as an “Arab crisis” is to risk essentializing the problem in another, unique “world.”
