Unlike in Tunisia and Egypt, the departure of Qaddafi from Libya will create a political vacuum that could lead to the complete collapse of the Libyan state, write David Ottaway and Marina Ottaway.
Thomas Carothers urges that any assistance the United States offers Egypt for political party development not favor parties Washington happens to be comfortable with. Choosing favorites would risk undermining U.S. credibility as a force for democracy promotion and could actually hurt the very parties Washington seeks to help.
Michele Dunne analyzes the longstanding political problems behind the unrest in Bahrain and Carnegie experts examine how the increasing unrest across the region could affect Jordan, Yemen, Iran, Palestine, Morocco, and Algeria.
Nathan J. Brown examines both the obstacles that might prevent the Egyptian revolution from succeeding as a true democratic transition and the reasons to believe the country might see real political change.
Thomas Carothers writes that Congressional Republicans should follow the example of British conservatives, who have taken the extraordinary step of exempting foreign aid from their far-reaching budget cuts because they recognize its strategic and moral importance.
Nathan J. Brown examines the new avenues for political activity open to the Egyptian and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhoods and Hamas in the wake of growing regional unrest.
Amr Hamzawy explains that the Egyptian public must recognize that freedom from authority and corruption requires more than the removal of individual personalities from power.
Domestic political circumstances in both Russia and Japan undermine any negotiated diplomatic solution to the dispute over the South Kuril Islands, writes Dmitri Trenin.
In the wake of December's violent crackdown, Olga Shumylo-Tapiola argues that achieving long-term stability in Belarus requires moving beyond the current political stalemate with the European Union.
Despite China’s high growth rates, the country still faces a number of economic challenges, from trade tensions with the West to reducing income inequality at home.
As cries for change gain momentum across the region, what is the future of the Saudi state? Will the House of Saud make serious efforts at reform?
international economic bulletin In response to the unrest in the Arab world, developing countries have begun stockpiling food staples, sending commodity prices soaring. Hafez Ghanem examines the developing world’s vulnerability to food price shocks.
international economic bulletin The best way to ensure that the international monetary system functions smoothly is domestic reforms in major economies, not a system-wide overhaul by the G20, write Uri Dadush and Vera Eidelman.
policy outlook Marina Ottaway and Amr Hamzawy overview the different kinds of protest movements in key Arab states, including Egypt, and examine the links between economic and political protest in the region.
report Ashley Tellis explains how India’s new medium multi-role combat aircraft will play an essential role in India’s transformation from a regional power to a global giant. The company awarded the contract to build the fighter will gain an important toehold in a lucrative market.
op-ed, New Republic Thomas Carothers examines the recent upheaval in Tunisia and Egypt in the context of global democratic transitions in the latter half of the twentieth century. عربي
policy brief Uri Dadush warns that the obsession with global rebalancing stokes currency and protectionist tensions and diverts attention from what is really needed—reforms at home.
The Egyptian public must recognize that freedom from authority and corruption requires citizens who follow through with the measures needed for reconstruction and institutional reform, not merely the removal of individual personalities from power.
In spite of China’s high growth rates, the country still faces a number of economic challenges, from trade tensions with the West to reducing income inequality domestically.
The fundamental lesson that the aspiring democracies of the Arab world can learn from Turkey is that the sustainability of democracy depends largely on the quality of a nation's democratic institutions.
As ethnic tensions over immigration increase worldwide and the European models of multiculturalism and assimilation prove problematic, countries must find a comprehensive approach to coexistence that is acceptable both to immigrants and their new host countries.
