Bloggingheads: Is Obama missing Iran's smoke signals?
While in New York last week, Iranian president Ahmadinejad seemed to offer to stop producing highly enriched uranium. In a Bloggingheads.tv diavlog, Iran experts Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic...
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A Nobel Prize for the Yemeni People
Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkul Karman was announced last night as one of the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. For once, the Nobel committee really got it right. Karman has been a tireless,...
View ArticleBloggingheads: State Power vs. Social Movements
In recent weeks Daniel Drezner and Anne-Marie Slaughter have been having an epic debate about whether nation states remain the dominant players on the world stage or non-state "social actors" are...
View ArticleBloggingheads: Should Obama be doing more on Syria?
With little action being taken to stop the violence in Syria, Michael Young of Lebanon's Daily Star and Bob Wright of Bloggingheads.tv debate what, if anything, the Obama Administration should be...
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What the Libya intervention achieved
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, leader of Libya's interim National Transitional Council, declared the end of the war and the liberation of Libya on Sunday following the controversial death of Moammar Qaddafi....
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Qatar's ambivalent democratization
In an unexpected move, Qatar will hold its first-ever parliamentary elections in the second half of 2013. According to the plan announced Tuesday by Qatar's Emir Hamid bin Khalifah Al Thani,...
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How Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will win
The performance of the Islamist party Ennahda in the October 23 Tunisian elections, in which it won 41.5 percent of the seats, has refocused attention on the upcoming Egyptian elections scheduled to...
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Egypt's elections: don't panic!
Egypt's first post-Mubarak elections are scheduled to begin in less than two weeks. It would be hard to exaggerate how badly the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has prepared for these...
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Why won't Saudi Arabia write down its laws?
In 2007 and 2009 Saudi King Abdullah capped a decade of legal and judicial reforms in his country by reorganizing the judiciary and ordering that Saudi Arabia follow the step that virtually all other...
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Arab politics is not all about us
When a presidential campaign is in full swing, we probably should not be surprised that the challenger's team throws everything and the kitchen sink at the incumbent. Still, it seems strange that...
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Did Netanyahu or Obama doom the two-state solution?
With his decision to oppose the U.N. General Assembly's granting Palestine non-member state observer status, U.S. President Barack Obama leaves no doubt he is not modifying his pre-election position...
View ArticleTunisia’s Forgotten Revolutionaries
Tunisia's revolution came quickly and suddenly, but there's still much work to be done in the underdeveloped and long-neglected birthplace of the Arab Spring.
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Egypt's public relations disaster
There could be more outrageous public relations disasters for a government to engage in. There could be. I just can't think of any. Imagine Jon Stewart being arrested on charges of insulting U.S....
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Will June 30 be midnight for Morsi's Cinderella story?
There is only one aspect of Egyptian politics that all Egyptians seem to agree upon: the only people who have an accurate understanding of the current situation are those who are utterly confused....
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Shaping the Syrian Conflict from Kuwait
One night during Ramadan this summer, Hamad al-Matar, a former Kuwaiti member of parliament (MP), invited guests over to donate "to prepare 12,000 Jihadists for the sake of Allah," a poster invitation...
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