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The focus on security and economic benefits at the expense of reform has contributed either to sustaining autocratic regimes or, ironically, to increasing instability across the Middle East.
In order to put an end to current hostilities in the Arab world, a national, regional, and international consensus is required.
The oil price is back to ‘normal.’ But for the major Middle East and North Africa region oil exporters, it is not going to be business as usual.
Gaps in the international coalition’s approach as well as deep sectarian divisions in Iraq and the shifting strategies of the Syrian regime and its allies are allowing the Islamic State to continue to exist and expand.
A year after declaring a “caliphate,” self-proclaimed Islamic State fighters are claiming attacks in Kuwait and Tunisia.
Twenty-three years after its civil war, Algeria is once again caught between a patriarchal state and an Islamist revival.
Tunisia is reeling from a brutal terrorist attack on one of its popular beach resorts that has left 37 people dead.
Long neglected by outside powers, the Sahel region stands at the strategic nexus of a number of growing challenges facing the African continent, Europe, and the wider Middle East.
Amidst concern over human rights abuses, President Barack Obama’s administration has requested $1.5 billion in foreign aid, almost entirely for military assistance, for Egypt this coming year.
Libya and Yemen will not reemerge as sovereign states without resolving fundamental struggles over the purpose and form of their security sectors.