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The role of the militaries in politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has been one of the most popular issues...
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Fadi Elhusseini, Senior Fellow at the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa, provides a much needed perspective...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
This paper conceives of the Arab Spring as a leap forward that has relegated the established order to the status of a...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Many expected the Arab uprisings to strengthen official and popular Arab support for Palestinian self-determination, and,...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
The Arab Spring offered Kurdish political actors in the region significant opportunities to advance their goals....
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Egypt under President Abdel Fatteh el-Sisi appears committed to avoid falling into the contentious Sunni-Shia divide by...
Saturday, April 1, 2017
The Ennahda Movement, whose foundations were laid in Tunisia at the beginning of the 1970s by Rached Ghannouchi and his...
Saturday, April 1, 2017
There have been almost regular attempts to declare the “end of Islamism” or “the end of political Islam.” Since the late...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
As Egypt charts a path to democracy, it confronts the legacy of 60 years of dictatorship. President Morsi faces an ongoing...
Monday, April 1, 2013
Policy implications aside, assessing the EU’s involvement in the Mediterranean region necessitates a reconsideration of...
Monday, April 1, 2013
This article explores the strategic importance Turkey holds to the European Union and how Ankara could contribute to the...
Monday, July 1, 2013
For many decades, the Arab despots would serve the Western interests in the region in return for a Western disregard to...
Monday, July 1, 2013
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the so-called ‘Turkish model’ has become a key ingredient of the discourse of...
Monday, July 1, 2013
The Arab Spring gave rise to a variety of transitions in the Middle East. Although initial developments in Tunisia and...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
This paper examines the position of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) during the Arab revolutions of 2010-2013....
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Fire is both the symbol of revolution and its most potent weapon. Much like the American Revolution and other key historic...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
The civil war in Syria continues to devastate social and political structures, precipitating floods of refugees and...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
As the Arab Spring unfolds, a new power configuration is emerging in the Middle East. Turkey is at the center of the new...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
This article examines the critiques directed at Turkish foreign policy during the AK Party administration. There are three...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
This paper discusses EU-Turkey relations with a specific reference to regional developments in the Middle East after the...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
How did unbalanced civil-military relations affect democratization and political violence trends in the Middle East and...
Thursday, October 1, 2015
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