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The overwhelming victory of the Moroccan Islamists at the legislative elections of 25 November 2011 allowed Morocco to defuse the popular protest represented by the 20 February movement, and announced a new political turn of events: the cohabitation between the Palace and the Islamist government led by Abdelillah (...)
The Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) in cooperation with the Arab Forum for Alternatives (AFA) held a conference in February 2012, in Cairo entitled “The New Egyptian Constitution: Experiences and Challenges”.
There are two kinds of state in the Near and Middle East: authoritarian regimes, and states that are very weak, at times to the point of falling apart such as Lebanon. It has a feudal-confessional societal structure where foreign influences support one or another of its component groups.Recent Publications
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The “Silent Bloc".. Acquiescing to Tyranny Willingly or Out of Fear
7 February 2012
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Ghassan Al-Mufleh
Three months after the onset of the Syrian revolution, Arab intellectual Burhan Ghalioun said in response to a question about the silent majority, “I believe that there actually is a significant, not-so-small group of Syrians who remain silent. A main reason for their silence is their concern for stability". -
Tunisia: Elections… and then what?
15 January 2012
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Asma Nouira
The interim President was obliged to suspend work on the constitution, dissolve the representative assemblies, and call for elections to a national constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for the country. -
The democratic consolidation of the military administration: Objectives to be met in light of the Spanish (...)
12 January 2012
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Rafael Martínez
Civil-military relations in Spain are difficult, and to this day they bear the marks of dictatorship—despite the fact that since the first governments of the democratic period attempts have been made to improve them.
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Bassma Kodmani, Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative, lately won the 2011 Raymond Georis Prize for Innovative Philanthropy in Europe, a prize honouring outstanding contributions to European philanthropy.
The Arab Reform Initiative is a consortium of fifteen key policy research centers from the Arab world with partners from Europe and the United States, working to mobilize the Arab research capacity to advance knowledge and promote a home grown program for democratic reform.