Middle East: alliances in times of turmoil
The Middle East is becoming a region with multiple centres of instability and increasingly complex conflicts.
Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood
Networked Egyptians
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’s failures
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.
Has Putin won?
Has Putin won? In the short term, so it seems. In the long run it is much more uncertain because Western confidence in the Russian President, and in Russia, has evaporated.
Let’s ask: ‘The end of the two-state solution?’
What solution is possible for a stable and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians? Is the end of the two-state solution?
Al-Sisi, the Arsonist Firefighter
After eight months of al-Sisi's “mandate” to combat them, violence and terrorism have done nothing but increase. Massacres, attacks on security forces and everyday violence are becoming commonplace in Egyptian daily life.
Germany and the crisis in Ukraine: divided over Moscow?
The crisis in Ukraine and the Russian annexation of Crimea are a major challenge to Germany’s foreign-policy makers.
The futures of Egypt: the good, the bad and the ugly
Egypt has undergone a frantic succession of political and social changes since January 2011. Today it is possible to envisage three different ‘futures’ for Egypt, described here as the good, the bad and the ugly.
Egypt: three years of mirages
The upheavals in Egypt have not come to an end and neither have the foundations been laid for settling a convulsive and erratic transition. Three years have passed since the events that Egyptians still refer to as the ‘25th of January revolution ’. During that time, the country has been subject to constant disturbances that have fuelled uncertainty and social polarisation, while the serious social and economic problems that caused the riots have become even more entrenched.
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