“Qatar’s wealth, underpinned by the world’s third largest natural gas reserves, is a potent weapon in its quest for political influence in a Middle East undergoing transition,” analysts suggest:
Nowhere is this influence more clear than in Libya and …
Libya’s worst political crisis since the 2011 revolution “is precisely the time for greater engagement….not only with Libya’s beleaguered government but also with its increasingly assertive civil society,” says a prominent analyst.
After armed militias recently laid siege to government …
Libya’s defense minister Mohammed Al-Barghathi (right) today retracted his decision to resign in protest over the militias’ blockade of government ministries in what he called an “assault on democracy and elected authorities.”
Libyans believe that the new exclusion law is …
“Gunmen refused to give up control of two ministries in Libya‘s capital on Monday, even after parliament caved in to their demand and banned any senior official under dictator Muammar Gaddafi from holding government posts,” Reuters reports from Tripoli…
“Muslims around the world express broad support for democracy and for people of other faiths being able to practice their religion freely,” according to a major new survey. “At the same time, many Muslims say religious leaders should influence political …
The global democratic regression has stalled and some of the world’s most authoritarian regions have registered significant gains over the past year, but “the overall pace of democratic change remained stagnant” during 2012, according to a new survey.
The democracy …
“The explosion of a car parked outside the French Embassy in Libya wounded two French guards on Tuesday in what appeared to be the first major terrorist attack on a diplomatic compound in the capital since the ouster of Col. …
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The Obama administration is today expected to raise concerns about Qatar’s funding of radical Islamists in the Syrian opposition, as the country’s ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (right), begins talks with President Barack Obama and US officials during …
More than twenty-five years after the ‘third wave’ of democratic transitions from authoritarian rule in South America, and Southern and Post-Communist Europe, two leading democracy analysts assess what new perspectives are needed in light of the recent upheavals in the …
Geography teaches much about Tunisia, says Robert D. Kaplan, chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor.
It is the Arab country closest to the heart of Europe, jutting out toward Sicily at the central Mediterranean’s narrowest point.
Whereas in states that …