Egypt’s problems are easy to point out and difficult to resolve: for the next two decades at least, it will need to create at least one million jobs per year, if it wants to absorb the new arrivals on the labour market and remain afloat.
The figures speak for themselves; there can be no doubt that the Maghreb has the lowest level of integration of all regional groups.
The Arab-majority uprisings were principally sparked by the brutality of the security sector in almost every single country where they occurred.
The real democratisation seems to have stalled in most of the Arab Mediterranean, and the region’s newly established and newly empowered constitutional courts are doing little to effectively promote further democratisation.
While there are multiple economic, social, cultural and political causes for the current rise in the radical right in various European countries, it is difficult to say which is the most important.
Three days after the announcement of the Agreement’s signing, the Commission formally recommended that the negotiations be started with Serbia and that a Stabilisation and Association Agreement be negotiated with Kosovo.
Almost four years after the revolutions that shook many of the Arab countries, their diverse geographies and societies have turned each political transition into a distinct and specific case.
The Gulf monarchs and emirs have managed to escape the tragic fate of other Middle Eastern and North Africans monarchs, who have been killed or dethroned; indeed, they have shown great resilience.
The Moroccan Constitution of 29 July 2011 is the first constitution promulgated under the reign of Mohammed VI. The role of the circumstances under which it emerged should not be overestimated.
The roles (in the plural) of Islam in the recent political and legal developments in the Arab region should be evaluated in relation to the quests of those societies for constitutional democratic governance.
Save for Tunisia, the country where the ‘Arab Spring’ started, the year was morose for those who believed in the promises of the revolution that had brought down four despots three years earlier.
Tunisia has achieved an elusive goal in the political development of the Arab Mediterranean: a democratic constitution drafted outside the influence of a foreign occupier or an authoritarian dictator.
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