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22 February 2011The End of Stability in the Arab World BY

Succession has always been a problem in the Arab-Islamic world - right from 632 AD when the Shia-Sunni schism began, the outcome of a struggle over the succession to the holy prophet.

In

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23 February 2011It’s The Economy, Stupid BY

“It was like being on the Hajj in Mecca”, exclaimed Emad Gad (a friend) gathered in Tahrir Square, Cairo, as the protests against Hosni Mubarak reached a deafening crescendo in the first week of

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7 March 2011The Mid-East: Belligerence vs. Evolution BY

As the young protesters in Libya struggle to rewrite the contract between the people and their rulers to make them more accountable, the world is reacting in predictable ways.

Western

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9 March 2011The Real Military Options in Libya BY Kenneth M. Pollack

The revolt in Libya was always likely to play out very differently from what has transpired in Egypt.  Libya lacked Egypt’s homogeneity, the strength of its institutions (particularly in

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22 April 2011Is BRICS a Real Bloc? BY Richard Weitz

When the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met for a day-long summit in the south China resort city of Sanya last week, they may all have privately marvelled at quite how

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8 June 2011Why Germany abstained BY

While NATO attacks on Libyan forces continue intermittently, another debate rages alongside. This one concerns why Germany abstained on Resolution 1973—which authorizes the use of all necessary

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7 September 2011America: Ten years after 9/11 BY

    When the first plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:46 A.M. on September 11, 2001, it looked, from the 39th floor of a Rockefeller Center office building, like a small single

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9 September 2011The clock is ticking for the Assad regime BY Samyukta Lakshman

As the Arab Spring consigns another dynastic autocrat to the annals of history, the focus shifts to Syria and its President Bashar al-Assad’s efforts to cling to power.

For decades,

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11 September 2011Arab Spring to Wahabbi Winter BY

Ten years on, and two trillion dollars and counting, is the world a safer place for the NATO partners? The security of NATO members has been at the core of actions taken by its components –

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30 August 2011Libya: A premature victory celebration BY George Friedman

The war in Libya is over. More precisely, governments and media have decided that the war is over, despite the fact that fighting continues. The unfulfilled expectation of this war has

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