In watching the calamitous events of the Syrian civil war unfold before my very eyes, I am starkly reminded of the horrors of the Bosnian War which claimed an estimated 110,000 lives, according to the UN Prosecutor's Office at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. While it is...
2013 will be an auspicious year for elections in the Middle East. On Tuesday, January 22, Israelis head to the polls in a snap parliamentary election to in all likelihood re-elect Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, with the only real change being the composition of his ruling...
The Syrian uprising-turned-civil war is a human tragedy of epic proportions. A preliminary statistical analysis carried out by the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has just come up with a list of 59,648 victims it has good reason to believe...
Going strong for nearly two years now, the changes wrought by the Arab Spring on the Middle East and beyond continue to reshape the region’s geopolitical landscape in wholly unpredictable ways. Just over a year ago, nobody could have predicted that Arab autocrats in Tunisia,...
Operation Pillar of Defence (November 2012) represents the most serious military confrontation between Israel and its Arab neighbours since Operation Cast Lead (December 2008 – January 2009). Coincidentally, just like Cast Lead, Pillar of Defence also took place in the Gaza...
The Republic of Turkey is by all accounts a rising national power. Internationally, Turkey is well regarded as a founding member and active participant in several international organizations: NATO in 1949, OECD in 1961 and G20 in 1999. Regionally, Turkey had until very...
What has become of the Arab-Israeli peace process? Recent years have seen little to no progress, though several opportunities have presented themselves. The Annapolis Summit in 2007 formally established the two-state solution, to which both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
Starting off as a series of pacifist protests, the conflict in Syria has escalated into a full-blown civil war by anyone’s measure. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) attributes the daily attacks on government forces to “terrorists” who have been fighting to overthrow...
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...
Editor's Note: Google Chrome may be required to view this page correctly. "The only thing unique about Syria is something called the November 2012 Presidential Election." Dr. Lori Handrahan is a Professional Lecturer at the American University's School of...
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