Power within Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, is a spectrum of forces from ISIS, Ba’athist elements and Sunni tribes, among others. How is this tenuous assortment of power connecting and coordinating in the running of the city?
The Thai military may think its May takeover has run smoothly but authoritarian dictates and an elite power monopoly will not keep the country together in the longer term.
It provided a rare attempt to ‘reconstruct self-other relations making possible a conversation of equal but different cultures’.
The destruction of tram stations during the protests in East Jerusalem is much more than vandalism, it shows that Palestinians are not quietly acquiescing to the ‘unification’ of the city, which they understand as the annexation of occupied land.
The farcical convictions of three Al-Jazeera journalists are mafia-style warnings that there is no safety in the law, western governments, or in the international media. Egypt’s new army regime is attempting to intimidate domestic opposition and cow its western backers.
Five years after ethnic tensions in western China's Xinjiang province exploded into violence, the political situation there remains troubled.
The current triple crisis also constitutes a chance for Algeria. More than ever it becomes clear that the country is indispensable for a solution of the security problems in the region.
Shockingly, to the west, some of the violent outbursts coming out of Israel are being made by senior Israeli officials, including current ministers.
It may be that, in Ethiopia, history is so powerful that the past permeates the present, and it repeats itself. In this case, what we see today is simply another interregnum between two powerful men.
The international community has indirectly contributed to making Burundi a facade democracy, now prey to a political and even a security crisis. Français
A somewhat bleak survey of American democratic prospects for this American Independence Day begins by reminding us what America was meant to be all about.
