For 60 years, the United States has been talking democracy while propping up authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. That-s according to the current President, speaking at the invitation of the ...
Democracy faces a decline as expansionist autocracies, populists, and degraded international norms rise. The future of ...
Despite the striking absence of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, world leaders at the G-8 Summit in Georgia have signed on to President Bush-s latest plan for democratizing the Middle East, one which ...
The American government’s immediate pause on almost all of its foreign aid has sent shockwaves around the world. It comes at a time when democracy and human rights are under relentless attack, from ...
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How China Turned the Arab Spring to Its Advantage
China’s inroads in the Middle East demonstrate how the region is still a critical front in the era of US-China competition.
Calling for less United States involvement in Middle East politics, Peter Beinart said that direct endorsement from the United States of certain political parties in democratic elections is ...
Lorne W. Craner knows skepticism. He encounters dubious looks so routinely when he describes the Bush administration's quest to expand civil liberties in the Arab world that he never waits long before ...
Shortly after Donald Trump was announced as the winner of the U.S. presidential election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to enthusiastically congratulate him. Meanwhile ...
Things in the Middle East, as the New York Times’s Thomas Friedman observed in a column this week, are beginning to loosen up – perhaps even to near a “tipping point,” as Mr. Friedman put it. Genuine ...
Regime Changes Unlikely, But... Foreign Policy's Marc Lynch writes, "I'm not hugely optimistic that we will see real change, given the power of these authoritarian regimes and their record of ...
Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires’ economic and ...
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