When Susan Rice withdrew her name from the consideration for nomination for Secretary of State, she did so largely to save the White House from a cost...
A ‘Home-Made’ Model for the Economic Integration in the MENA Region
After decades of elusive quest for a common Arab economic space and EU-promoted trials with the fluky Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Agreement (EU-MFTA...
Turkey as a ‘Role Model’ in the MENA Region after the Arab Spring
The Arab revolutions of 2011 have brought into immediate focus the following question related to Turkey’s foreign policy: ‘Can Turkey’s economic and p...
Social Media in North Africa: a ‘Double-Edged Weapon’
How important has been the role that social media have played in the Arab Spring uprisings and the subsequent democratic transformation affecting the ...
A Quest for North Africa’s Economic Recovery: Lessons from Post-Communist Europe
In May 2012, leaders of the G8 countries met in France in order to discuss an eventual support of the ongoing revolutionary processes of the Arab Spri...
Ways Ahead for the Maghreb Regional Integration: Lessons Learned from ASEAN
Despite the fact that the Maghreb countries constitute one region that is culturally, geographically and historically integrated, they have largely fa...
Atheist Shrugged: Muzzled US candidates cannot debate Republicans on Ayn Rand
What muzzle did US Vice President Joe Biden agree to wear in the veep debate against Rep. Paul Ryan, the runningmate of Republican Mitt Romney? Pres. ...
The Fear of a Radical Islamist Winter and the Role of the EU
The last few days have set off the alarms of a radical Islamist winter hijacking some promising landscapes of the “Arab Spring”. The murde...
Salafis and the paradox of Political Stability in Morocco and Tunisia
Before the Soviet Union controlled the former republics of Central Asia, Sufi brotherhoods dominated the religious scene in Chechnya, Uzbekistan and T...
Street Talk: Moroccan pros and cons about the ruling government
The Party of justice and development (PJD) is the first Islamic party to lead the government in Morocco’s modern history. This was the results of the ...