Issues/Rule of Law

Rule of Law

- Sada - Analysis
Generalissimo Sisi
- Maged Mandour
- February 14, 2019
- - عربي
Proposed amendments to Egypt’s constitution will enshrine the military’s position above the state by giving it greater legal means to intervene against elected governments and prosecute political opponents.
Civil Society Legitimacy in Question: Defamation Patterns and Response Strategies
- Saskia Brechenmacher
- February 04, 2019
- European Civic Forum
To defend against attack, civil society organizations can promote internal ethical leadership, strong downward accountability to their constituencies, be politically independent, and build coalitions across social and political divides.
- TV/Radio Broadcast
Ending Epidemics of Violence
- Rachel Kleinfeld
- January 30, 2019
- Radio Café
Repression can incite greater disorder within a region and export violence to other places. Instead, to heal a society of epidemic violence requires the middle class helped by social organizers and politicians willing to make deals.
- Sada - Analysis
Dividing Morocco’s Islamists and Leftists
- Maâti Monjib
- January 23, 2019
- - عربي
By fueling a media war between Islamists and leftists, the Moroccan regime can isolate individual critics and prevent these forces from forming an anti-palace coalition.
- Q&A
We Need to Get Smart About How Governments Use AI
- Steven Feldstein
- January 22, 2019
China is exporting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to other countries, particularly to autocratic-leaning states. Why are countries racing to embrace this new technology?
- TV/Radio Broadcast
A Cure for Massive Violence
- Rachel Kleinfeld
- January 17, 2019
- How Do We Fix It?: A Repair Manual For the Real World
Decivilization can happen anywhere when violence becomes regularized. However, recovery is possible when complicit states reform and regular people, especially the middle class, address the violence and disorder in their communities.
- Event
A Conversation With Tunis Mayor Abderrahim
- Souad Abderrahim, Sarah Yerkes
- January 16, 2019
- Washington, DC
Mayor Abderrahim discussed her role as the first female, democratically-elected mayor of Tunis, and how she is leading the charge to bring positive change to the capital.
- TV/Radio Broadcast
Science Salon: A Savage Order
- Rachel Kleinfeld
- January 15, 2019
- Skeptic
Getting on the road to recivilization requires fixing violent and corrupt systems. Such reform can shift the incentives on the ground and may provide an opportunity for deeper change in society.
- Op-Ed
A No-Deal Brexit Would Be a Geopolitical Crisis
- Erik Brattberg
- January 11, 2019
- Axios
A no-deal Brexit would consume all political and strategic energy in London at a time when Europe is facing rising geopolitical threats from Russia and China.
- Commentary
Egypt Acquits Foreign NGO Workers. What Does This Mean For U.S.-Egypt Relations?
- Michele Dunne
- December 20, 2018
Egypt has acquitted several foreign NGO workers who had been convicted of working without the Egyptian authorities’ permission. Is this Egypt’s olive branch to the international community?

Democracy and Governance

Carnegie Experts on
Rule of Law

Cornelius Adebahr
Nonresident Fellow
Carnegie Europe
Adebahr is a nonresident fellow at Carnegie Europe. His research focuses on European foreign policy.
Loulouwa Al Rachid
Co-Director
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Carnegie Middle East Center
Loulouwa Al Rachid is a co-director of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Saskia Brechenmacher
Associate Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Saskia Brechenmacher is an associate fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where her research focuses on gender, conflict, and governance, as well as trends in civic activism and civil society repression.
Thomas Carothers
Senior Vice President for Studies
Carothers is a leading authority on international support for democracy, human rights, governance, the rule of law, and civil society.
Michele Dunne
Director and Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Dunne is an expert on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Steven Feldstein
Nonresident Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Steven Feldstein is a nonresident fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where he focuses on issues of democracy, technology, human rights, U.S. foreign policy, conflict trends, and Africa.
Amr Hamzawy
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Amr Hamzawy studied political science and developmental studies in Cairo, The Hague, and Berlin.
John L. Holden
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Asia Program
Holden is a nonresident senior fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program. He also advises corporations and other organizations on their operations in China and assists Chinese companies overseas.
Duncan Hollis
Nonresident Scholar
Duncan B. Hollis is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the James E. Beasley professor of law at Temple Law School, where he also serves as the associate dean for academic affairs.
Peter Kellner
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe
Kellner is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on Brexit, populism, and electoral democracy.
Rachel Kleinfeld
Senior Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Kleinfeld is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program. She was the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project.
Andrew Miller
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Program
Andrew Miller is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program.
Andrey Movchan
Nonresident Scholar
Economic Policy Program
Moscow Center
Movchan is a nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center.
Marwan Muasher
Vice President for Studies
Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.
Matthew Page
Nonresident Scholar
Matthew T. Page is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Yezid Sayigh
Senior Fellow
Middle East Center
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS). His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces and nonstate actors, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of post-conflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.
Aqil Shah
Nonresident Scholar
South Asia Program
Aqil Shah is a nonresident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Paul Stronski
Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program
Paul Stronski is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, where his research focuses on the relationship between Russia and neighboring countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
Milan Vaishnav
Director and Senior Fellow
South Asia Program
Vaishnav’s primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior.
Jake Walles
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Jake Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism.
Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Youngs is an expert on the foreign policy of the European Union, in particular on questions of democracy support.