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Published in: HomeRefolution in the Arab worldA new word is needed to describe these events of recent months. They should be called ‘refolutions’, radical...
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Published in: HomeThe other Arab exceptionThe Arab revolutions of 2011 have disproved one argument about the Arabs only to raise another, says Hazem Saghieh.
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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 spring: protest, power, prospect
What is the “Arab spring” becoming? After three months of upheaval, repression and conflict, the democracy wave in...
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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: HomeConsolidating emerging MENA democracies
Democracy is once again the challenge. Overcoming divisions through the development of new welfare systems will be...
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Published in: HomeThe advantage of not understanding politics
The Arab uprisings have proved very different in type to those in Iran, in terms of the scale, scope, both their...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab Revolutions: an end to the post-1967 problematic
Tunis and Egypt, despite still being the minority, have become the new rule, with the rest of the regimes being the...
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Published in: HomeLibya: the prospect of war
The 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...
