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The latest MEI Podcasts
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Arab Countries: Dynamics of Change
Speaker: Adel Abdellatif
September 30, 2011
A View From the Gulf: A Discussion of Gulf Politics and Security
Speakers: Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, Dr. Mustafa Alani, Dr. Christian Koch, Amb. David Mack
September 16, 2011
Rebuilding Libya: A Status Report on the Humanitarian Situation on the Ground
Speakers: Gene A. Cretz, Mark S. Ward, Travis Gartner, Wendy Chamberlin
September 7, 2011
Syria on the Verge: Implications for a Nation in Revolt
Speakers: Radwan Ziadeh, Ausama Monajed, Amb. (ret.) Theodore Kattouf, Andrew Tabler
August 10, 2011
Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within
Speakers: Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman
July 25, 2011
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Viewpoints
We open this second volume of our series, Revolution and Political Transformation¸ at a time of uncertainty and transition for the region. Monarchies, republics, and jamahiriyya alike have all faced popular protest to one degree or another, yet some have stood and some have crumbled. The essays in this volume seek to answer the question of why popular uprisings succeed or fail by examining regime responses.
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Policy Insights
Strengthening Pakistan’s Indigenous Capacity for Evaluating Development Effectiveness
By Dr. Suleiman Wasty
Pakistan may become the second-largest recipient of US foreign assistance (outstripping Israel, the largest recipient) according to US budget documents. Additionally, other bilateral donors and multilateral partners have enhanced their aid commitments and disbursements (economy and sector-wide) to help the country’s efforts for infrastructure development, poverty alleviation, humanitarian relief, and especially in its endeavors to combat the financing of terrorism. This paper addresses implications of these developments for the external development partners and especially for domestic economic policymaking in Pakistan.
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Policy Briefs
Mehrunisa Qayyum
This Policy Brief examines Syrian regime practices of intimidation, and the engagement of diaspora communities.
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MEI Commentaries
Yemen's Unhappy Ending
By Dr. Charles Schmitz
Back in June, when Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left for Saudi Arabia for treatment of his wounds, most observers thought Yemen's political crisis would be resolved in favor of the political opposition and the revolutionary street protesters. If Saleh -- who was badly burned in an attack on his presidential mosque -- did not die, then he would at least be prisoner of the Saudis, who had been actively seeking his resignation. Few thought he would ever return. And inside Yemen, the pro-Saleh forces would be weak without the president, so it was a hopeful time for those opposed to Saleh's rule. A transitional government would oversee a new set of elections that would usher in a new post-Saleh era.
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Encounters
Jonathan D. Abetti
Architecture in the Sultanate of Oman ranges from the very elaborate and modern Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque to the very simple and traditional falaj...
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