Tweet By Mark Bracher The 2011 Arab uprisings were greeted with optimism by much of the international community. After ten years of counter-productive ‘War on Terror’, it seemed as if al-Qaeda and its ilk had been defeated in a matter of weeks by the very people it claimed to champion, discrediting its assertion that meaningful change could only be realised […]
by Filippo Dionigi
Following Israel’s targeting and killing of a number of high-ranking Hezbollah and Iranian military officials in Syria, Dr Filippo Dionigi reflects on what Hezbollah and Iran’s reactions might be and what this escalation means for Israel. Filippo will be launching his book, Hezbollah, Islamist Politics and International Society, at LSE on Monday 2 February 2015.
Israel’s stance towards the conflict […]
by Raymond Hinnebusch, University of St Andrews
This memo was prepared for ‘The Arab Thermidor: The Resurgence of the Security State’ workshop held at LSE on 10 October 2014 in collaboration with POMEPS.
What explains the failure of the Arab Uprising to lead, as its protagonists expected, to democratization? Neither democratization theory (DT) or post-democracy (PDT) approaches, such as authoritarian upgrading, got the Arab Uprising right: Several […]
by Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace
This memo was prepared for ‘The Arab Thermidor: The Resurgence of the Security State’ workshop held at LSE on 10 October 2014 in collaboration with POMEPS.
Emerging patterns in authoritarian governance in the Arab world
Today, the dominant images of the “Arab Spring” are no longer of exuberant crowds gathered in public squares to demand democracy and social justice, but of […]
Tweet Dr Zeynep Kaya, who is currently leading a research project on the role of international actors in enhancing women’s rights in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, has recently returned from her fieldwork in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah. She gives here her first impressions on her research trip. As part of the project, the MEC will be heading to Erbil next […]
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