Maybe the US won’t change its course until the Arab world changes. It is amazing how instantly possibilities present themselves when the people, en masse, demand their own interests and rules of the game.
The uprisings sweeping across the Middle East portend a political transformation as significant as those of 1989. The economic stagnation of the region, the failures of corrupt and repressive autocratic regimes, conjoined with a disenchanted youthful population wired together as never before, have
Who was the child of Mubarak's speech: each of his Egyptian "children", or the juvenile terror who just won't give up his toys? But the "revolutions of the normal" are too powerful not to prevail
The similarities between the Egyptian and Russian regime are striking, says Grigorii Golosov. Arguably, Mubarak’s was the more liberal one.
Updated 11am. After Mubarak's refusal to stand down, attention must turn to what the armed pillars of the state will now do.The army may well be divided between loyalists and reformers; but the police and the Presidential Guard are also armed. The right kind of foreign pressure must continue.
The leaders of the United States have this time dropped the ball.
A review of 'Jihad in Saudi Arabia', by Thomas Hegghammer, looks at the complications of adequately describing ideology and not just socio-economic movements
Egyptians who are systematically raised to believe that their country’s fate is to play a leadership role in the Arab world seem increasingly determined
None of the Arab Revolts of 2011 have played themselves out as yet. So it will be a while before the Obama Administration can assess the damage to its interests: a set back or a debacle?
To frame the crisis in the region as an “Arab crisis” is to risk essentializing the problem in another, unique “world.”
When a nonviolent battle is fought before curious, and sometimes fearful, international audiences, Western politicians face a near impossible task in supporting blatantly dictatorial regimes.
