Middle East / North Africa

The Syrian President’s visit to Paris during the summer of 2008 symbolized a new course in French diplomacy, and the end of the French-Syrian disagreement. However, it still has to be proven that this new situation leads to a stable political solution in Lebanon, to a more significant French...

Unstable dynamics surrounding Iran's nuclear program may be pushing the world closer to the use of nuclear weapons than is generally realized - perhaps closer than any time since the Cuban missile crisis. This paper proposes a number of near- and longer-term scenarios to illustrate the ways in...

Until October 1988 riots and its opening to Mulpartism, the non-aligned-and-figurehead-of-Third-Worldism-during-the-cold-war Algeria clearly showed a favourable ideological tropism vis a vis the economic and political system advocated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The...

Introduction

Dubai is a place where success comes quickly. The emirate has comfortably turned itself into a major business centre, freeing itself from alienating dependence on oil and diversifying its economy into financial services, tourism, new technology and media. Its success breaks with the image of...

Some observers have been surprised by the victory of the Hamas, the Palestinian islamist party. Many Western governments, on the other hand, are preocupied by the results of the recent poll. Juliette Mayaleh observed the reality on the field in order to explain the reasons of this victory and...

Is 2004 Algeria really different from pre-October 1988 events Algeria: one-party system, political discredit, questioning about the openness of the political field? Would she be more comparable to the 1970s Algeria, characterized by a strong presidential regime?
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