Syria: Militarization, Military Intervention and the Absence of Strategy
Written by PROF. GILBERT ACHCAR I was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in Sweden, near the capital Stockholm. A number...
Iran – Marginalised Diplomacy Will End In Conflict
Written by TRITA PARSI The determination to ramp up sanctions and rhetoric on Iran means Europe and the US are 'inching towards war' Only sixteen months after the last United...
Syria, the Arab Yugoslavia of Middle East
Written by NICOLA NASSER Friday, 04 November 2011 05:30 Surrounded by the Turkish veteran member of NATO in the north, the Israeli NATO partner and the navy fleets of the...
(Dis)Integration and the Emergence of the State System in the Middle East
Written by DR. IMAD EL-ANIS Monday, 17 October 2011 06:52 Introduction Studies of the international relations of the Middle East have been dominated by discussions of inter-state relations and conflicts.[1]...
Hamas: Between Militarism and Governance
BY IBRAHIM NATIL** | 07.09.2011 The Birth of Hamas By the beginning of the 1980s, the senior leadership of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood (Brotherhood) in the Gaza Strip was facing...
Pro-Peace or Pro-Conflict? Television Journalism in Palestine from 2003-2010
A Case Study of the Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya Arab Satellite Television Channels BY SAMAH HAMDAN NAJI HANAYSHA** | 07.09.2011 Introduction Peace Journalism Scholars often interpret the concept of peace journalism...
Palestine Refugees in Today’s Middle East
By Mr FILIPPO GRANDI** | 08.06.2011 Colleagues of Coventry University and the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Vice-Chancellor, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am grateful for this opportunity to exchange...
Read It Now: The Possible/Probable Main Crisis for 2012
By BARRY RUBIN | 16.05.2011 Save this note. Last year I predicted that Egypt's instability might well be the big story of 2011. Why wait until December? The central...
The Muslim Brotherhood: A Challenge or Opportunity for New Egypt?
By Tamer Kasikci | 20.03.2011 Hasan Al-Banna Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood During the January Revolution in Egypt many Middle Eastern experts had two major questions in their mind. The first...
Unrest in the Middle East, the Turkish response and the Turkish model
By Paula Sandrin | 17.03.2011 The recent uprising in several Middle Eastern countries has caught the West by surprise and has left it unsure about which course of action to take....
The Middle East after Mubarak: Government Reactions and the International Community
By Dr. Guy Burton | 19.02.2011 The events in Egypt – the Arab world’s largest country – are having reverberations across the Middle East. The reasons for the pro-democracy demonstrations in...
Wikileaks and Egypt: has Obama Got Away With It?
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 19.02.2011 There is a crescendo of self-congratulation in the US State Department about the lack of damage to America’s standing from the continuing Wikileaks’ release...
The Middle East after Mubarak: Government Reactions and the International Community
By Neil Ketchley | 05 February 2011 By Maher Sharif (with introduction and translation by Neil Ketchley) We do not yet know into what shape events in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere...
What does it mean to be an Arab leftist today?
By Neil Ketchley | 05 February 2011 Maher Sharif (with introduction and translation by Neil Ketchley) The 'Global 1989' as event (and LSE IDEAS research project) remains a critical point of disjuncture...
Isolated: The West or Iran?
By Maaike Warnaar 03 January 2011 Western policy makers should be better aware of what their actions mean in the context of Iran's political discourse. If they were, they would...