In the discourse of international politics, it is rarely warranted to label a situation a kerfuffle. Syria is definitely one such kerfuffle. The international community has failed to broker a solution to what has now become more than a year-long conflict in which the...
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...
2011 could be characterized as the year of the Arab. The year has yet to end, and several Arab regimes, relics of an age quickly gone by, have been toppled by their own people. The pattern is by now familiar: popular protest in the streets, the capital city swarmed by the...
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