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…
Were High International Food Prices An “Early Warning” Of The Arab Spring? Probably Not.
…is available at: https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/FAO-GIEWS-Tunisia.pdf] An April 2012 review of Tunisia’s pre- and post-revolution inflation trends by the African Development Bank’s Chief Economist Complex (Abderrahim and Castel, 2012) makes it similarly…
Beyond Ballots: The Junta Chief’s Elite Management Strategy Ahead of Myanmar’s Elections
…single senior figure often meant the downfall of their entire faction. There is historical precedent for this as well. For example, in the 1977 Ohn Kyaw Myint affair, a coup plot led to the young captain’s…
Options for Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms in Global Environmental Governance
…as creating opportunities for meaningful peer-to-peer learning — particularly among states in the same region — and building support over the long term for gradual acceptance of supranational authority in…
Oil, Politics, and Economics: Kuwait’s Balancing Act
…point of contention has been the demolition of illegally built structures used for diwaniyas across Kuwait starting in April 2008 (over 30,000 estimated demolitions). Diwaniya, an informal weekly gathering for…
Breaking Down The Current India-China Border Standoff
…progress because the “definitional” aspects of the LAC remain the subject of contention in each of the three sectors of the border. Confidence-building measures have also not succeeded in attaining…
TRANSCRIPT – Naval Competition in the Indian Ocean Region
…outside observer, it’s almost impossible to know if it is entirely illusory as a capability or something that’s meaningful. And in the naval nuclear domain that’s most meaningful in terms…
Addressing a Resurgent China: A New Mindset for Strategic Competition
…if the old economy falters too quickly, it will inevitably hinder the rise of the new.”7Yuen Yuen Ang, “China’s Economic Paradox,” Project Syndicate (September 4, 2024). Meanwhile, continued purges within…