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Le Monde diplomatique
The Nation
Richard Bulliet
Rami G. Khouri
Vadim Nikitin
Patrick Seale
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Apocalyptic Words from Men in Hiding
by Rami G. Khouri
Hariri and Nasrallah represent both the vitality and the dysfunction of the Lebanese political governance system that has allowed itself repeatedly to become the main proxy gladiator’s arena for Middle Eastern and global powers.
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Turkey: Dilemma of the Kurds
by Immanuel Wallerstein
It could well be that a major victim of the anti-authoritarian uprising in Turkey will be the Kurds.
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Insights into Arab Youth Today
by Rami G. Khouri
New research documents the sentiments among those young activists that were largely responsible for instigating and defining the first three revolutions in the Arab world in early 2011 in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
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Qusayr Portends Great Danger, Waste and Stupidity for All
by Rami G. Khouri
The dangers ahead may make Iraq look like a picnic.
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Hezbollah's Gamble
by Mohamad Bazzi (The Nation)
The Lebanese militia is now deeply embroiled in the Syrian civil war, which has become part of a regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Turkey and Jordan Mirror the Citizen-State Challenge
by Rami G. Khouri
Loose parallels between events in Jordan and Turkey reflect the wider reality across the Middle East of citizens and states that have not fully defined their relationships through a social contract that both shape and see as legitimate.
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Sergey Guriev and Russia’s New Wave of Exiles
by Vadim Nikitin
Having arrived at the top by hitching themselves to the Kremlin’s leviathan can Guriev et al. seriously be taken as Russia’s “best and brightest” or as principled dissenters?
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Freedom of Expression Is Our Second Arab Battle
by Rami G. Khouri
Freedom of expression and thought are the foundation of two important things that citizens and governments in the Arab world both say they seek: stability and dignity.
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Britain's Search for a Post-Hegemonic Identity
by Immanuel Wallerstein
The biggest problem for Great Britain today is that the rest of the world will simply not consider it to be a very important geopolitical and financial actor anymore.
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The New and the Ordinary in the Middle East
by Rami G. Khouri
Dramatic developments this week in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine-Israel, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and several Arabian Peninsula states, yet without any sign of what is truly historic and new and what is a passing phenomenon.
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