The New Middle East

Monday, October 31, 2011

(Elite driven) sectarianism is alive and well in Iraq

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Despite public opinion polls and my recent focus groups with Iraqi youth that show a rejection of sectarianism, the behavior of Iraq's p...
Friday, October 14, 2011

What can the US learn from Turkey in the Middle East?

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During the 1990s, Turkey was a relatively unstable country. The Islamist government of Necmitten Erbakan was removed by the military in 1...

جائزة نوبل للربيع العربي ممثلا في المرأة اليمنية

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The article below, "The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Arab Spring is represented by a Yemeni Woman: Tawwakul Karman," was writt...

القانون الدولي والاعتراف بالدول.. خلفية من أجل فلسطين

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عبد الحميد صيام This article, "International Law and its Acceptance by the International Community: the Case of ...
Monday, September 19, 2011

US Foreign Policy in Post-SOFA Iraq

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The end of 2011 will mark a watershed in U.S.-Iraqi relations. The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that the United States and Iraq signed ...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Syria’s Arab Spring: Phase Two of the Crisis

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Guest writer Ghaidaa Hetou has conducted extensive research in Syria during the past year. She is currently writing her PhD dissertation on ...
Monday, September 5, 2011

The Tea Party and the Middle East

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As President Barack Obama's approval ratings decline, pushed ever downward by a global and domestic recession that shows little sign of ...
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Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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