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22 February 2011The End of Stability in the Arab World
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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 Tagged Under Bahrain , Libya , Lockerbie bombing , Muammar Gaddafi , oil politics , Pan-Arabism , Saudi Arabia , Shias , Sunnis |
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23 February 2011It’s The Economy, Stupid
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“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 Tagged Under Egypt protests , Hosni Mubarak , Libya , MENA , Qatar , Sultan Qaboos |
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7 March 2011The Mid-East: Belligerence vs. Evolution
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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 Tagged Under African Union , Ali Saleh , David Cameron , Gaddafi , Libya , Middle East , UNSC |
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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 Tagged Under Libya , Libya protests , military intervention , Muammar Gaddafi , no-fly zone |
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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 Tagged Under Brazil , BRICS , China , Dmitry Medvedev , India-China , Libya , Muammar Gaddafi , Sino-Russia |
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8 June 2011Why Germany abstained
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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 Tagged Under angela merkel , BRICS , France , germany , Libya , NATO , UN resolution |
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7 September 2011America: Ten years after 9/11
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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 Tagged Under 9/11 , Afghanistan , Barack Obama , debt downgrade , George W. Bush , Iraq war , Libya , osama bin laden , R2P , September 11 , Washington , world trade center |
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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, Tagged Under Abhyankar , al-Assad , Alawite , Arab Spring , assad , Democracy , India-Syria , Iran , Iraq , Libya , Rajendra Abhyankar , reform , Syria |
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11 September 2011Arab Spring to Wahabbi Winter
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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 – Tagged Under 9/11 , Afghanistan , Al-qaeda , Barack Obama , George W. Bush , Kabul , Kashmir , Libya , osama bin laden , TNC , wahhabi , War on terror |
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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 Tagged Under Arab Spring , Gadhafi , Libya , NATO , NATO intervention , Tripoli |