Is the Map of the Middle East About to Change?
If people in the Middle East could democratically choose what country they lived in, would they choose the one they are in now? Amidst all the talk of an Arab Spring, the fragility of the Arab state is often forgotten. Whereas developed countries are almost always the product of an organic, internally driven process, in [...]
Turkish foreign policy volte-face, the Arab States, and the West
In March 2011 after a UN resolution to protect Libyan civilians from Gaddafi’s forces and a NATO decision to launch air strikes, Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan criticized the French government for pushing NATO operations against Colonel Gaddafi because France and its allies were interested in Libya’s oil. The comment was warranted because it is [...]
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