In Israel’s current political climate, instead of an ideological split between the ‘right’ and ‘left’, the main ideological gaps today are between two types of parties that are willing to sit in on any coalition, either with Likud or Labour or both.
The recent mediterranean refugee crisis has shown one the main gaps in European common policy to be filled.
In this new Middle East cold war context, the sectarianism has become a powerful political weapon used not only in Bahrain but also in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
What has been confirmed by the four years of convulsive transitions in the Maghreb and the Middle East is that, for the time being, the ‘Arab economic and geopolitical exception’ remains in place.
The aim of the slaughter in the Bardo Museum is threefold: to try to derail the promising democratic transition; to torpedo the economy by hitting the all-important tourism industry; and to drag Tunisia into a scenario of Jihadism that generates chaos.
The political transition in Yemen has entered a critical stage after the Houthi movement’s take-over of Sana’a and President Hadi’s flight to Aden. The polarisation of the political forces reflects the growing tensions in the region and could end in an open military conflict.
Following Benjamin Netanyahu's electoral victory, the idea of Palestine as a state does indeed look unlikely.
Round table chaired by Charles Powell (@CharlesTPowell), director of the Elcano Royal Institute, at Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
If consolidating a ceasefire in the eastern Ukraine will be difficult, making peace will be even more so.
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