Challenges 2019 will bring for the Arab world
It has only been a few days since the New Year fireworks lit up the skies of many of the world’s cities. For a brief moment, it was...
Results of US midterm elections bring hope for inclusive politics
Although the embers have since cooled in one of the most hotly anticipated and closely watched midterm elections in the US, its striking...
The Middle East: Prospects for Economic Partnership
Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute is pleased to introduce "Four Minute Foreign Policy," a series dedicated to providing...
The United States Should Not Get Involved in Libya’s Civil War
An unmistakable sense of despair and gloom accompanies most news reports and literature on the state of affairs in Libya after 2011. The...
The light has dimmed in Tunisia’s shining beacon
One of Tunisia’s many jobless graduates detonated a home-made suicide bomb in the capital last month. This was not a Daesh attack, it was...
Youth and the private sector hold keys to the Arab world’s future
Everywhere you look, the Arab world is changing — and fast. A decade or two ago, most countries in the region had an unusual system in...
Why the Arab world must prepare now for recession
Talk of the “next recession” is often dismissed as alarmist fear-mongering. The wounds of the 2008 financial crisis and the resulting...
Why big cities are the future of the Arab world
A century ago, only 10 percent of us lived in cities. According to the UN, 55 percent of the world’s population now lives in urban areas,...
Gulf states can teach the Arab world about brain gain
Brain drains have existed as long as there has been economic disparity between geographic areas. More recently, they have been among the...
Without the UN, our world would be an even more dangerous place
For 70-odd years, the world has experienced a period of relative peace and stability achieved through global cooperation and the...
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