Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, ...

There is a fundamental sickness in liberal foreign policy. So argues John Rossomando, an analyst at the Washington-based think tank for The Center for Security Policy and a former researcher for the ...

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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Doha, Qatar—The Arab Spring that toppled governments in North Africa and the Middle East turned into an Arab summer for ...

Riad Kahwaji, CEO, Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis – INEGMA discusses the impact and the forecast for the Arab Spring Over ten months have passed since the so-called Arab Spring ...

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Juan Cole tells the backstory of the revolutions in North Africa, exploring events in the context of their cultural setting. His conclusions are optimistic yet grounded in realism. Christians in the ...

With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...

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