Content Syndicationhttps://carnegieendowment.org/rss/?fa=rss https://carnegieendowment.org/rss/solr/?fa=feeds http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/174859_62935143720_1836682_n.jpg Thursday, 06 Jul 2023 04:00:00 EST https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/90089?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Climate change in the Middle East will amplify preexisting vulnerabilities stemming from conflict, displacement, marginalization, and corruption, while also creating new risks. Governments in the region will need to adopt more inclusive reforms as part of their climate adaptation strategies.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/90089?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 06 Jul 2023 04:00:00 EST Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa, Middle East Program, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, North Africa, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Climate and Energy, Climate Change https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/90143?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Today the darkened chambers of Ametsegna Washa are still strewn with the detritus of the siege and the bodily remains of the lives it extinguished-a grim memorial that unequivocally refutes the apologists' polemics.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/90143?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 21 Jun 2023 05:03:48 EST Defense and Security, Society and Culture https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89527?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss As emergent great powers enter the Middle East scene and as Arab governments move toward detente with longtime rivals, a new regional order is forming. But competition will persist, and the order is shakier than it seems.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89527?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 03 May 2023 02:23:28 EST https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89517?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Since 2011, the Arab world has undergone massive upheavals-geopolitical shifts, climate shocks, mounting economic pressures, and authoritarian restructuring, to name a few. Dynamic responses from governments and citizens are laying the shape of the next decade.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89517?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 03 May 2023 01:51:16 EST Middle East, North Africa, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Political Reform https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89013?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The multitude of crises affecting the Maghreb since the 2011 uprisings present new opportunities for revisiting a regional security architecture that addresses both longstanding sources of tension and new and emerging challenges. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89013?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 07 Feb 2023 05:00:00 EST North Africa, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87163?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss More specifically, Washington should not let this new frame of "great power rivalry," which Middle East autocracies have heartily welcomed and exploited, distract it from scrutinizing the behavior of these regimes at home and from helping the region's citizens and societies address the socio-economic and political problems they face now and in the coming decades. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87163?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 19 May 2022 05:54:39 EST Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87002?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss This group is quite brutal and everywhere that they have intervened, in numerous conflict zones in Africa and elsewhere, they have been accused of atrocious human rights violations.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87002?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Saturday, 23 Apr 2022 04:41:28 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86991?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss As the battle for Eastern Ukrainian intensifies, the presence of a group of mercenaries known as the Wagner Group has also grown.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86991?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 22 Apr 2022 02:40:52 EST Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86973?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The last time Russian forces tried to topple an internationally recognized government it was in a country far from Eastern Europe and on a far smaller scale than today's war in Ukraine. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86973?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 18 Apr 2022 10:46:39 EST Eastern Europe, Libya, Middle East, North Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86711?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss It's about managing oil prices, bread prices, and strategic partnerships. | عربي | 中文]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86711?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 24 Mar 2022 09:45:06 EST Eastern Europe, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Libya, Middle East, North Africa, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Economy, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86510?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Climate change is affecting the Middle East in far-reaching ways. To better prepare their societies to withstand its shocks, policymakers need to depart from top-down paradigms and involve a broader swath of their citizenry in climate adaptation. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86510?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 24 Feb 2022 02:17:58 EST Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa, Global Order, Governing the Earth System, Middle East Program, Middle East, Climate and Energy, Climate Change https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Libya may be heading toward new rounds of conflict in the aftermath of its recently aborted elections. | عربي]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 07 Jan 2022 03:23:09 EST Libya, North Africa https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The United Arab Emirates are upset that the United States seems to be infringing on their sovereignty and that there are too many restrictions on this deal. ]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 17 Dec 2021 02:01:17 EST Middle East, Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss A discussion of the Libyan presidential elections ahead of a landmark vote.]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 07 Dec 2021 05:00:00 EST Libya, North Africa https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Socioeconomic and political obstacles have long inhibited successful security sector reforms in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Understanding these factors and drawing lessons from previously aborted DDR/SSR efforts is crucial to avoid future pitfalls and a possible relapse into conflict.]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 12 Nov 2021 09:50:46 EST Libya, North Africa, Defense and Security https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The challenge for Western policymakers is to avoid viewing Russian activism in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa through an exclusively zero-sum lens. The region's political disarray, complexities, and especially the unpredictability of local rulers all present built-in buffers to Russian influence-as they do to all external players. ]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 31 Aug 2021 04:00:00 EST Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Return of Global Russia: A Reassessment of the Kremlin’s International Agenda, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, North Africa, Russia, Syria, Foreign Policy, Russian Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Recent diplomatic progress offers Libya an uncertain but real chance at better days ahead. Modest U.S. support could improve the chances that this opening succeeds.]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 24 Jun 2021 11:33:07 EST Americas, Libya, North Africa, United States, Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss In Libya, religious endowments and their associated wealth have become a magnet for intense and often violent competition among Libya's many political and religious currents. | عربي]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 07 Jun 2021 10:06:53 EST Islamic Institutions, Middle East Program https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The complex relations between the state and Islamic institutions in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco shed light on evolving governance and have important implications for Western policies of countering violent extremism and conflict resolution. | عربي]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 07 Jun 2021 02:53:37 EST Islamic Institutions, Middle East Program, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Middle East, Morocco, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Religion, Society and Culture https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss U.S. security policy with Arab states has long needed a major overhaul. This compendium presents different arguments and proposals for how the United States can do just this. | عربي]]> https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/86145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 18 May 2021 04:52:58 EST Middle East Program, U.S. Security Policy , Americas, China, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa, Russia, United States, Western Europe, Defense and Security