Being the sole representative of the anti-ArabSpring camp in Libya, which is backed by the UAE-KSA-Egypt axis, Haftar adopted an anti-Turkey policy since he began his coup d’état attempt.
The past decade and the ArabSpring provided multiple examples of Western governments completely failing to support legitimate democratic political movements in countries such as Egypt and Syria, or opposing the violent state and military responses that met those movements.
The Kingdom is already allocating more attention to West Africa, and there is a combined sense of apprehension and fatigue of perfidious Arab politics.
Cutting the UNRWA fund for Palestine, closing the Palestinian authority office in Washington, forcing Arab regimes in the region to cooperate with Israel, putting pressure on the International Criminal Court in order to prevent Israel from trial, and rejecting decisions against Israel at the UN Security Council are just some examples of U.
” After gaining independence, Sudan had two challenges: a powerful military structure/class that was inherited from colonial Britain (and that was unwilling to yield power to a civilian government); and what was perceived as the ‘‘southern problem’’ – the south of the country being a Christian majority that wanted to secede compared to the Arabanized African Muslims of the north.
The vectors in the war treated as booties much of the territories that were once part of the Ottoman Caliphate and that today constitute the Arab world, a world that ended being divided into no less than twenty political entities tailored in the shape of the modern territorial sates of Europe.
n overlooked aspect of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s approach to international relations is Abu Dhabi’s incorporation of Islam into its foreign policy.
Fouad Siniora attended the SETA Foundation in Istanbul for a special lecture on the Middle East under the title “The Effect of Instability in the Arab World on Regional and Global Stability.
unisia recently marked the 8th anniversary of the revolution, a powerful wave of popular protests that inspired other Arab countries to reform their socio-political and economic institutions, and therefore, establish an accountable government.
espite its tumultuous history, the Muslim Brotherhood witnessed an unexpected political surge due to the ArabSpring, which unsettled the political culture of the Arab world and ousted four dictators, including Hosni Mubarak.
018 has been a year of some historic developments in the Middle East, which has been witnessing an era of instability and uncertainty since the start of the ArabSpring 8 years ago.
Regional powers that want to maintain the current status quo in the Middle East - namely, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt - have all maintained good relations with the U.
Since then, Turkish foreign policy has been under fundamental transformation not only because of the changes in foreign policy mentality but also due to the regional and geopolitical turmoil emanating mainly from the Arab uprising.
espite the fact that it has been put on the back burner after the failure of the ArabSpring, the debate on alternative models of political order within the Islamic world still keeps its vivacity.