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April 4, 2012
Jordan
Guest Post: Jordan’s Reform Calculations
This post is written by Kelley Calkins, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. Here she offers her assessment of the Jordanian leadership’s calculations concerning domestic reform …
February 2, 2012
Middle East and North Africa
Remembering the Hama Massacre
Today marks thirty years since the start of President Hafez al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on the city of Hama in Syria. I asked Ella Lipin, a Fulbright grantee last year in Cairo who lived and worked i…
November 27, 2008
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Counterterrorism in India
India has been battling terrorism for as long as it has been a sovereign nation. This backgrounder examines the country’s counterterrorism efforts.
February 11, 2009
Israel
Israel’s Political System
A brief overview of the Israeli political system.
May 12, 2008
Rule of Law
Somalia’s Transitional Government
Though international observers had hoped Somalia’s transitional federal government would bring stability to the war-torn nation after sixteen years of “failed state” status, by mid-2008 experts said …