Articles inside the category: Reviews
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Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
Victoria Clark
Yale University Press 2010
Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes is the kind of book that keeps you awake at night. Its British author, Sana’a-born Victoria Clark, essentially presents to her readers a mathematics problem unsolvable by a western mind. Far from prompting one to give up, however, this unsolvable problem taunts anyone with an inquisitive mind to take a nosedive into the fascinating social and political landscape, w...
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Friday, 10 Feb, 2012
The Maliki Dilemma
The National Interest
1 February 2012
Kenneth M.Pollack
There may be new hope for stability in Iraq’s political future with the recent changes in the country. However, this may not be at all enough to guarantee it will endure. In Kenneth Pollack’s view, even if the changes are good news, they may simply be a “lull.”
Speaking about the recent decision by the largely Sunni Al-Iraqiya party to end its boycott of parliament, the contributing editor of The N...
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The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf: Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East
Matteo Legrenzi
I B Tauris, 2011
In ...
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Tuesday, 24 Jan, 2012
Securing the Arab Revolutions: Opportunities and Dangers
Wadah Khanfar, chaired by Mehdi Hasan
SOAS
Wadah Khanfar defined the Arab Spring as the uprising not only...
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Friday, 13 Jan, 2012
A Democratic Future for Yemen
Tawakul Karman, chaired by Ginny Hill
Chatham House
“With you we will build a new world,” Karman told the London audienc...
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The Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak
Lloyd C. Gardner
The New Press 2011
The Road to Tahrir Square offer...
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Friday, 23 Dec, 2011
Nuclear Fatwa: Religion and Politics in Iran’s Proliferation Strategy
Michael Eisenstadt and Mehdi Khalaji
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Because the su...
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Turkey and the Middle East
Internal Confidence, External Assertiveness
Chatham House Briefing Paper
Fadi Hakura, November 2011
During a transitional period for the Midd...
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The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Baath Party.
Nokalaos van Dam
I.B. Taurus 2011
This book, now in its fourth volume, is a thoro...
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin
Allen Lane, 2011
The Quest by Daniel Yergin is a magisterial account of the comp...
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