Nathan J. Brown writes that, despite the waves of popular protests in the rest of the region, soft authoritarianism is entrenching itself further in Gaza under Hamas. | عربي
Dmitri Trenin writes that civil war in Syria will have broader implications than the fate of a single Middle Eastern dictator, including ushering in an era of closer Russia-China cooperation to counter U.S. influence.
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Iran’s former nuclear spokesman, writes an insider’s account of the Iranian nuclear crisis and explains how to bring it to a peaceful resolution.
Nathan Brown examines how constitutional controversies and judicial rulings are changing the basic nature of Egypt’s political system and offers a guide to Egypt’s complex judicial system.
Deborah Gordon and Steven Anderson write that new domestic oil supplies cannot guarantee U.S. geopolitical and economic security and, if unregulated, could cause collateral damage.
Vikram Nehru explains what the countries of Southeast Asia can do to weather the spreading impact of the European economic crisis.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh will deliver an address at Carnegie on the Jordanian perspective regarding recent developments in the Middle East.
New op-ed, Huffington Post Moisés Naím explains that the deepening euro crisis can be attributed to the combination of ignorance, too much power in too few hands, and too little power in too many hands.
op-ed, Bloomberg Yukon Huang outlines several popular myths about China’s banking sector that risk diverting attention from the real nature of its problems.
Carnegie paper Ibrahim Saif and Muhammad Abu Rumman examine the economic agendas of the Islamist parties gaining newfound political power across the Arab world. عربي
commentary Frederic Wehrey writes that conservative figures within the Bahraini royal family are redoubling their efforts to subdue the opposition. عربي
commentary Mark Hibbs, Ariel Levite, and Pierre Goldschmidt explain why an IAEA agreement with Tehran is absolutely essential for finding a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear crisis.
Carnegie report Marina Ottaway and Mai El-Sadany write that the failure to secure a peaceful separation between Sudan and South Sudan does not bode well for the chances of avoiding new decades of conflict and poverty. عربي
The Arab Spring revolutions and the declining role of the security apparatuses in the region have allowed for more successful labor activism, an emergence of a bottom-up approach for activism, and a shift away from traditional structures of organization.
The next years will see most, if not all, of NATO's major military operations draw down as the Alliance finds itself, for the first time in twenty years, without a major operation to run.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing the political repercussions of her decision to shut down Germany's remaining 17 nuclear power plants after the nuclear disaster in Japan last year.
In case of unobstructed civil war in Syria, the division between Russian and U.S. policies toward Syria will most probably deepen, and the choices of these two countries will have serious international implications, including stronger Russia-China cooperation to counter U.S. foreign policies.
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