Democratic Transitions in the Arab World: Tunisia as a Model?
Transitional justice, security sector reforms, the role of international actors in advancing Arab democracy, and relations between Islamists and secularists will be among the issues to be addressed at...
View ArticleForget ‘Turkish Model’ – Ankara needs ‘German Model’ to advance Arab democracy
Turkey’s experience over the past decade under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government – blending democracy and Islamism, close ties with Washington and a neo-Ottoman foreign policy –...
View ArticleJordan’s Islamists step up anti-election campaign
Jordan’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood is ramping up its campaign against next week’s parliamentary elections and against King Abdullah II’s proposed reforms. “The Jan. 23 vote could set the stage for a...
View ArticleYemen’s National Dialogue: critical test of transition
Two years on from Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, has sectarianism overtaken democracy as the driving force of the region’s popular upsurge? “Tribal, regional, and sectarian...
View ArticleBrothers no more? Egypt’s Islamists, military, seculars and ‘repression’s...
The Obama administration has called on Egyptian leaders to “demonstrate, in both word and deed, their commitment to religious tolerance and to upholding all of Egypt’s international...
View ArticleEgypt’s opposition lacks Brotherhood’s political discipline, organizational...
The disparate liberal and secular forces comprising Egypt’s National Salvation Front are so fractured that they are likely to cede “the last major decision-making body in the country to Islamists...
View ArticleMali’s ‘Tale of Two Islamisms’
While radical Islamist forces are wreaking havoc in the north of Mali, “a republican form of Islamism is peacefully conquering the south,” says Hannah Armstrong, a fellow of the Institute of Current...
View ArticleMorsi rejects joint Salafist-secular call for unity government
A hardline Islamist group normally aligned with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood today joined the opposition in calling for a national unity government as part of a plan to end the violence that has left...
View ArticleMoving Beyond Rhetoric: U.S. Policy in the Middle East
The Obama administration should be more assertive steps to in?uence the outcome of Arab Spring transitions, engage more broadly than government-to-government relations with a diverse set of actors, and...
View ArticleAs Ahmadinejad visits Cairo, Egypt’s Coptic pope criticizes ‘divisive’...
As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Egypt for the first visit by an Iranian leader in more than thirty years, the Coptic Christian pope “sharply criticized” the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in an interview...
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