The Arab monarchies have weathered the revolutions of the Arab Spring surprisingly well for supposedly autocratic regimes. As corrupt and parochial governments are toppled and replaced in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria (which is just a matter of time), not a single...
Quite often, good intentions lead in unforeseeable ways to bad outcomes. This fact of life can be tricky enough on the personal level but downright disastrous in the realm of international politics. The political drama playing itself out in Mali is a good example – complex...
Much has been made in the past year about the prospects for democracy in the Arab world after the unexpected revolutions that began in Tunisia spread like wildfire throughout the rest of North Africa and the Middle East. The US-based NGO Freedom House touted the...
Who runs the show and calls the shots in most countries, the generals or the politicians? The fact that we can even ask this question points to the inherent tension between a country’s military and civilian leadership structures in many countries. Power is a prize to be...
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