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A generation gap and regional inequality are fueling the political instability and violent extremism facing Tunisia’s new leaders.
Although many lament that the Arab Spring has turned into an Arab Winter, the conflicts emerging across the Middle East are largely the result of the political, economic, and social ills of dictatorships.
Addressing political and social problems in southern Algeria should be a high priority. Failure to do so would undermine an effective response to the growing threat posed by terrorist and criminal networks.
Through compromise and cooperation, Morocco’s king and the ruling Islamist Party of Justice and Development have figured out how to get along.
Frederic Wehrey discusses evidence of the use of cluster munitions as well as the ongoing civil war in Libya.
More than three years after the fall of former leader Muammar Qaddafi, Libya is wracked by worsening civil war, foreign intervention, and the rise of transnational terrorism groups like the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
The presence and influence of the Islamic State continues to spread in the civil war chaos of post-Qaddafi Libya, inserting itself into an already messy conflict between the rival Operation Dignity and Operation Dawn.
Egypt’s leaders hope that foreign investors, led by the Gulf states, will provide much-needed capital. But the fall in oil prices may make it difficult for them to help.
Egypt’s current foreign policy activism is more show than substance. The temptation to expand this approach by intervening in Libya will only reveal Egypt’s vulnerabilities and deepen them further.
Four years after the start of the Arab revolutions, fundamental issues like polarization identities and economic inequities continue to destabilize the region.