Articles tagged with: Arab Spring
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
It has been over two years since a wave of protests and revolutions rocked the Arab world, and we have yet to see whether these initial openings will be consolidated into durable, competitive democratic regimes. As the most powerful external actor in the region, America has an important role to play in this process, but what exactly that role should be remains a subject for intense debate.
Not so long ago, most Arab and European political elites were consistently repulsed by America’s adv...
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
Some 400 years ago, the sultan of Morocco, Ahmad Al-Mansour, became increasingly aware of Spanish control and influence over the Mediterranean. He decided to launch a bold expedition southwards to conquer the Songhai Empire in what is now northern Mali, a land renowned for its riches and its resources. Al-Mansour’s venture was, more importantly, a way of reasserting Moroccan influence on the other side of the Sahara, and of controlling the historic trade routes that had made Morocco’s fortun...
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Tuesday, 2 Apr, 2013
London, Asharq Al-Awsat---There were over 6,000 documented deaths in Syria last month, making it the bloodiest month in its 2 year uprising, according to figures released by th...
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Friday, 29 Mar, 2013
The Atlantic magazine’s recent profile of Jordan’s King Abdullah has embarrassed the royal court and unleashed a wave of criticism against the monarchy. Despite the embarra...
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Monday, 18 Mar, 2013
In the pre-Arab Spring era, the conventional wisdom was that an uprising in Syria was far fetched. Articles written by learned experts proclaimed Assad’s immunity to the tid...
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Saturday, 2 Mar, 2013
A few days after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi called for demonstration in support of Tunisian and E...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton left her job as US secretary of State last week with sky-high approval ratings from her fellow Americans and praise from abroad for revitalizing many of the ...
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Monday, 31 Dec, 2012
If there is one thing that can be said for certain about the Arab Spring, it is that monarchies have fared a lot better than republics. Opinions differ over why that is. Cultur...
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Saturday, 8 Dec, 2012
The downfall of Mubarak and Ben Ali and the explosion of protest and revolt against dictatorial governments across the Arab world has understandably prompted rejoicing across...
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Tuesday, 3 Jul, 2012
According to modern realist theory, because the ordering principle of the international system is anarchy—that is, there is no central authority to govern interactions betwee...
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