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As the crisis in Mali threatens to grow into a full-fledged regional security and humanitarian nightmare, nervous neighboring countries are looking to Algeria to lead a conflict management effort.
Given diminished U.S. influence in the Middle East, Washington should no longer try to pick winners and losers in the region and instead support democratic transitions to pluralistic societies.
For Libya to secure its largely ungoverned borders it must disentangle the web of economic and local interests that fuel insecurity.
The United States needs to concentrate on where it can make a difference in the Middle East, instead of focusing, as some have suggested, on an old notion that it should dictate outcomes.
Young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four have played a central role in shaking up the old order, and while so far they have not been able to shape the policies of the new regimes, they remain key to the outcome of transitions in the region.
For all the procedural flaws, the document that is emerging as Egypt's potential constitution offers prospects for a working democracy.
Despite fears in the United States, Egyptian foreign policy under President Morsi has been marked by continuity rather than a fundamental paradigm shift.
Protests in Libya sparked an order to disband the country's rogue militias, but this is only the first step to security in Libya. Good governance and building an army are the long term solutions to Libya's challenges.
Nearly four decades of the Qaddafi regime’s systemic marginalization and mismanagement of Libya’s eastern and southern regions have resulted in deep security, political, and economic problems that continue to challenge the country’s transition toward democracy.
The ultimate solution to the security challenges in Libya resides in improved governance and the construction of a cohesive national army.