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Turkey’s Kurdish question is that country’s single most important problem. It is and has always been a political problem. Successive Turkish governments have sought to resolve it either through repressive military and occasionally economic means.
If Washington wants to avoid a UN resolution recognizing Palestinian statehood, President Obama needs to put his own plan on the table and take the lead in resolving the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
If the United States and the United Arab Emirates seek to move beyond sanctions and military containment to address the deeper roots of the Iranian threat, they may find they have differing long-term interests.
The gap between Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian society has become unbridgeable, creating a situation where Khamenei's authority is increasingly maintained through coercion and Machiavellian power politics.
If the transition in Egypt succeeds and the country overcomes a number of economic obstacles and acquires a democratic, accountable, and efficient form of government, it is likely to become a stabilizing force in a turbulent region.
As demonstrations continue in Syria, the Assad regime has two options: either it will accept a new deal based on serious political reform or inclusion, or the country will drift toward civil war.
Washington must do more to address underlying sources of instability—a collapsing economy, rampant corruption, unemployment, and resource depletion—if Yemen is to avoid becoming a failed state.
By accentuating the country’s internal rifts and breaking previously sacred taboos, Ahmadinejad has become an unlikely, unwitting ally of Iran’s democracy movement.
As factions compete to form a new political system in Tunisia, it remains unclear whether the country will succeed in implementing long-term reform or stagnate in a political limbo.
In the aftershocks of Midan Tahrir, al-Azhar declares its support for democracy, pluralism – and its independence from a government that has long manipulated it.