Governance & Political Reform

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

The lack of channels for social demands creates the conditions for sudden explosions of anger. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some latent contradictions within Egyptian society.

 15 September 2020
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La revolución interna de las Hermanas

Pioneras al despuntar en puestos clave, Rima Fakhri en el Hezbolá libanés y Jihan al Halawafi en los Hermanos Musulmanes egipcios, relatan su paso a la esfera política en un entorno reticente.

 21 September 2010

Llamamiento al renacimiento árabe

A pesar de los avances en el desarrollo humano, persisten retos crónicos: alcanzar el desarrollo sostenible es el objetivo final de la construcción de la sociedad del conocimiento.

 21 September 2010

Madagascar, 50 años de independencia

Tras más de 15 meses de crisis política, el país sólo tiene una aspiración: el restablecimiento del Estado de derecho que favorecerá el reconocimiento internacional, la seguridad y el desarrollo económico.

 21 September 2010

La fábrica social del Internet árabe: ¿democratización de lo digital o por lo digital?

Es improbable que los blogs conduzcan a una revolución, pero abren la perspectiva de un espacio público diferente.

 21 September 2010

Movements of Change in the Arab World: A Regional Transition?

The events that have rocked the entire Arab world, with very few exceptions, since the beginning of 2011, have made headlines across the globe, bringing to the fore a series of unavoidable debates.

 20 September 2010

The Palestinians’ Past and Present: Striving for Freedom

For a people with a relatively small population, the Palestinians have enormous issues. Yet, as gargantuan as these issues are, the principle behind them is elementary.

 16 September 2010

Mauritania: 2009, Year in Review

Mauritania suffers simultaneous geopolitical, economic and security challenges that threaten to spill over unless Mediterranean countries and the US help contain them.

 9 September 2010

Morocco: 10 Years of Mohammed VI’s Reign

Ten years is ample time to outline a plan for government. Has Mohammed VI used his first decade on the throne to draw one up and begin to implement it?

 26 August 2010

Decentralisation and Local Governance in the MENA Region

The major question for political analysts is whether recent local governance reforms in the MENA region really amount to increased authority and autonomy for local institutions, leading to greater local democracy.

 13 August 2010

The 2009 Elections in Israel

The fragmentation of the Israeli political system, technically based on a highly proportional representative parliamentarian structure with a threshold of only 2%, has produced another stalemate.

 15 July 2010

Algeria’s Position Regarding Mediterranean Integration

Algeria’s criticism of Euro-Mediterranean policy should be viewed in the context of a profound distrust of the forms of Mediterranean integration.

 29 June 2010

Lucha contra la corrupción, entre discurso y realidad

Frente al discurso voluntarista de sus gobiernos, que multiplican los textos legislativos para acabar con la corrupción, los magrebíes siguen siendo escépticos.

 21 June 2010