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.
Despite having recently initiated negotiations to join the EU, Serbia has declared itself neutral concerning EU sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis. This paper looks at Serbia’s somewhat ambiguous position between the EU and Russia.
The Middle East is becoming a region with multiple centres of instability and increasingly complex conflicts.
ICT development drew young Egyptians into the outside world and opened their eyes to a wider global picture, very different from the image offered by the state-controlled media.
Iraq has failed as a concept. It has been a failure of seeing democracy as only a question of votes, disregarding the protection and integration of minorities.
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