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An examination of the newest and most relevants ideas and reports to emerge on the middle east.
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Friday, 13 May, 2011
Egypt in Transition
Chatham House Workshop Report
April 2011
For the Egypt in Transition report, Chatham House brought together a number of Egyptians for a dialogue on the country’s political transition for a discussion of current concerns and future goals. The report reaches rather obvious conclusions: Egyptians want a more inclusive and representative democratic government. They want a limited role for the military. They see western relations as damaged. While the workshop r...
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Wednesday, 4 May, 2011
Most people have never heard of the tiny island nation of Sao Tome and Principe in the Gulf of Guinea. But the country’s involvement with oil, which began in 2003, provides the opening case study examined by Robert Slater, as he shows the duplicity of oil and the “chaos of petropolitics today.” The resource discovery in Sao Tome and Principe at once inspired the poor, gave them hope for a brighter future and boosted their economy; it just as quickly led to political instability and ...
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Thursday, 28 Apr, 2011
The issue brief “Eurasian Energy: Hot and Cold,” caters specifically to the US’s interest in achieving energy security, outlining the geopolitical dynamics of the cur...
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Tuesday, 26 Apr, 2011
The title explicitly references Catch-22, that bible of the absurd which so brazenly unmasks the insanity of—among other things—war. How gauche, how presumptuous, one might...
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Friday, 15 Apr, 2011
Recent clashes between Israel and Hamas have raised serious questions about Hamas’s relationship with more radical militant organizations. In the past year, Salafi-Jihadi...
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The impact of war on women has been substantially overlooked in the past, as researchers and academics have favored assessing and writing on the more direct and easily measur...
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Thursday, 31 Mar, 2011
Speaking to CNN's State of the Union in February of last year, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that while “a nuclear-armed country obviously poses a potent...
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Friday, 18 Mar, 2011
A Neighborhood Policy for the Gulf Cooperation Council
Gulf Research Center
December 2010
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which was formed by six Gulf monarchi...
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Thursday, 17 Mar, 2011
As a result, Muslims, Christians and Jews are becoming more alienated from one another, thus minimizing hopes for genuine reconciliation. If the communication breakdown is not ...
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Muslims in the European Mediascape
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
2010
The arrival of social media that saw a revolution against manicured news content and ideology ...
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