Results for “Arab Lawyers’ Union”

… On Iran, they point out that it has very limited military power, even by regional standards (a small fraction of Saudi Arabia, for example). Its strategic doctrine is defensive. If—a big If—it has plans for nuclear weapons, that would be part of its deterrent strategy. Now who w...

…nevitably engenders discontent with the ruling class from below—something we have seen in abundance in the lands of the Arab Spring. Yet, Confucian- HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032200

…idor reiterated his opposition, stressing the damage we’d risk doing to the Americans’ war effort by possibly weakening Arab support for their attack on Saddam. When Shamir turned to me, I said that if the government did decide on military action, we were ready. From a purely mil...

11 on bin Laden, whose money, mystique, and connections to wealthy Gulf Arabs gave Al Qaeda an advantage few other terror groups have ever enjoyed. Zawahiri has experience in rebuilding broken terrorist groups; his own organization in Egypt, Al Jihad, was twice wiped out by oper...

…who shouts loudest is the one who wins.” —Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, September 2005 “We have sympathy with [Arab governments] because they did not read warnings that they should have read. That things were changing because of the wishes of their people, and because of...

Saudi Arabia. When Saudi Arabia wanted American forces removed from the kingdom, for example, Qatar was eager to compensate by hosting a more robust American command presence in the region. The Arab uprisings and subsequent GCC intervention in Bahrain have turned the tables, mak...

… have a political agenda devoted to promoting democratization, and it maintains political and diplomatic ties with both Arab states and Iran. China's military activity in the region is modest but increasing, as evidenced by its recent peacekeeping dispatches to the region and nav...

… trip, to Brazil. So only hours after landing from Tunis, she was headed back to Paris. By then it was clear that the “Arab Spring” of 2011 was creating tumult not just in the Middle East but inside the Obama administration. Not since the fall of Communism, in the late 80s, has...

…ged almost entirely along skeins of digital connection, and was itself a reaction to the network- led disruption of the Arab Spring - and the earlier fracturing of older order in Iraq. When President Obama dismissively called ISIS the junior-varsity squad of terror and said there...

… and privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent — from his childhood in Poland, hi...

…xt":"• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed to retaliate for an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people. A local Arab separatist group claimed responsibility, but Iran blamed Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and the U.S. Above, a funeral for victims of the attack. [The New York Ti...

tulers, but also puts his eyes on the wealth at their hands. During his election campaign, he literally said, “Saudi Arabia is just like 'a milk cow' and we will slaughter it when its milk runs out”. He may announce increase of the annual attribute provided by every rulers. Also,...

response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...

…e — but you’ve made oblique references to your own revisions and criticisms. How does the rise of China and the current Arab unrest, for example, fit into the end of history? FUKUYAMA: If you understand the original thesis correctly, what I was saying is that there was a theory...

…orking with reformers and democrats to shape the region’s trajectory — and ensuring Al Qaeda’s irrelevance in the Sunni Arab world, the heart of its supposed constituency. In countries where autocrats have been toppled (as in Egypt and Tunisia), we must help shape the new politi...