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Monday, February 13, 2012

What can Iraqi merchants tell us about the impact of sanctions on Iran?

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Will Israel attack Iran? Will the US give Israel the “green light” to conduct such an attack? Might the US even join Israel in attacking I...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Opposition Groups in Syria: Myths and Realities

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Guest author - Andrew Spath Revolutionary periods have a way of compressing history. Events unfold so quickly, and the flow of information ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Envisioning a Post-Asad Syria: The Future of Past Relations

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Ghaidaa Hetou, guest author “al-Asad’s Syria,” a slogan adorning countless government and private buildings in Syria for over forty years, i...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Are we headed for a war with Iran?

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The following Op-Ed article was published in the Newark, NJ, Star-Ledger and the Newhouse Papers on January 29, 2012. It can be found at: ...
Friday, January 27, 2012

The Many Moving Parts of Iraq's Current Political Crisis

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What are the key components of the current Iraqi political crisis and what does it tell us about the future of Iraqi politics? The most impo...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Pakistan’s Current Crisis: Institutional Maturation or Manipulation?

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Guest author - Farah Jan Over the past few weeks, Pakistan ’ s army has been faced with the quandary of whether to take over through a cou...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

Making Sense of the Arab Spring - Part 3: Egypt's Stalled Democracy

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Will Egypt's democracy activists be able to tame the military? As I mentioned in a earlier post on Egypt's Arab Spring , the main t...
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Eric Davis
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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