Lebanon has deep-rooted institutional issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the state. But should it be scared of a descent into Iraqi-style chaos?
As next year’s presidential elections loom larger on the national horizon, the country seems to be heading towards a political non-event.
Discussions on R2P – and even the terms of the debate – tend to privilege the military option, though there is little empirical basis for thinking military strikes will best deter those harming civilians. Protection strategies need a deeper analysis of all potential levers of influence. A contribu
An Islamic bloc is indeed emerging, but more than an occulted project of Islamization, it is a process of activation of the material and moral resources of a conservative middle class summarily excluded until the 2011 revolution.
Just as the wandering elites of Damascus, Cairo or Tripoli seek salvation in London, the peripatetic poor and needy of the very same countries are drowning to the distant putting sound of an indifferent life-boat.
Using the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to justify decisions to intervene militarily abroad is often self-serving. Countries like India are ambiguous about the right to intervene because the practice is deeply inequitable. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate, R2P and the Human Rights C
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Political fault lines threaten Libya's stability.
There are various sectors missing from the frame of 'the January 25 youth' that we are to blame ourselves for excluding. You could say that 'armchair revolutionaries' took all the credit for the revolution when other sectors only took the blame.
This 'You tell us' feature offers some first hand accounts and a range of opinions in blogs, articles and tweets, first and foremost from the people of Egypt.
The recent debate over military action in Syria – and the upcoming Commons Defence Committee’s Inquiry on UK intervention strategy - shows how data and information in conflict is changing the imperatives of decision-making.
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 oil shock. Its consequences are still echoing across the world today.
The difficult choice faced by the United States and its allies in Syria is rooted in the strategic errors of the early post-9/11 years.
