Opinion

The Arab Spring at Five

    Five years ago, the leaders of Egypt’s protest movement shocked themselves by successfully bringing down President Hosni Mubarak , who had been in power since before...

Unmet Needs, Tenuous Stability: Egypt 5 Years after January 2011

    This faulty view assumes that had the series of uprisings—starting in Tunisia on December 17, 2010—not occurred, the apparent stability under authoritarian rule in...

ISIS May Be Retreating – But ISIS Is Not the Main Problem

    The bad news? Our single-minded focus on ISIS as if it were the main or sole source of regional dysfunction is the result of...

Behind the Veil

    This past New Year’s Eve, hordes of men from North Africa and the Middle East, many of them Muslim refugees and migrants, set off...

Al Qaeda and ISIS: Existential Threats to US Europe

The planning group weighed the national security interests of the United States, its partners, its rivals, and its enemies operating in or influencing the...

Is Sisi’s Regime Fracturing?

      Monday marks the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 25, 2011, protests that sparked Egypt’s Arab Spring uprising, and the Egyptian government is on edge....

What if a Bunch of Eras Are Ending All at Once?

    What if we’re at the end of the 30-plus-year era of high growth in China, and therefore China’s ability to fuel global growth through...

Migration of ISIL jihadists: Out of Syria . . . and into Libya

    There were profound reasons for this “flight to safety” by Daesh, in seeking a new haven as pressures increased on its territorial holdings in...

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