Crackdown in Bahrain
Sectarian and hardline politics have brought protesters out into streets of this once quiet Gulf nation. And as the bodycount rises, the United States should be gravely concerned. This article was first published by Foreign Policy on February 17, 2011 Crackdown in Bahrain By Jean-Francois Seznec – At 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, […]
C-SPAN Interviews Ellen Laipson on Middle East and North African Unrest
Ellen Laipson appears on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss the geopolitical impact from the continuing anti-government protests in the Middle East and Northern Africa, and offers suggestions on how the US should respond. Other Stimson Related Resources: Crackdown in Bahrain, February 17, 2011By Jean-Francois Seznec Beyond Cairo: Prospects for Change in the Middle East, February […]
Beyond Cairo: Prospects for change in the Middle East
This article was first published in The Hill on February 16, 2011. After weeks of excitement and surprise, it is time to try to make meaning out of the momentous events in Tunisia and Egypt. Are we on the brink of a democratic tsunami across the region? Or will we discover that Tunisia and Egypt […]
Beyond Cairo: Prospects for change in the Middle East
This article was first published in The Hill on February 16, 2011. After weeks of excitement and surprise, it is time to try to make meaning out of the momentous events in Tunisia and Egypt. Are we on the brink of a democratic tsunami across the region? Or will we discover that Tunisia and Egypt […]
Roundtable Discussion on Tunisia, Democracy, Stability, and Political Demography
Political Islamist Movements: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Don’t leave your brothers alone in the square (photo) Diaa Rashwan, an expert at the al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies examines the sociopolitical movement of the Muslim Brotherhood in his 2009 chapter in Islam and Politics: Renewal and Resistance in the Muslim World. Political Islamist Movements: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood […]
Why Egypt Shut Down the Internet
We have seen this story before: an authoritarian regime is challenged by its youthful population. TV stations are shut down, border security is strengthened, and the government tightly regulates the flow of information out of the country. The protests that followed a disputed 2009 election in Iran were among the first examples of a ruling […]
Geography Matters – Stimson’s Regional Security Programs
By Ellen Laipson and Michael Krepon: We are reflecting on our first quarter century in this series of essays; in this installment we explain the evolution of Stimson’s work on key strategic regions, and how that work relates to our broad and enduring themes of international peace and security. Our colleagues who focus on Northeast […]