Middle East
MIDDLE EAST: Energy revenue dependence creates risks
The fall in oil prices in 2008-09 highlighted weaknesses in the region's external accounts and...
Middle EastUS/MIDDLE EAST: PAC-3 move a signal for Iran, Israel
Media reports yesterday indicated that the administration of President Barack Obama is...
Middle EastMIDDLE EAST: 'Crony' capitalism is widespread, durable
Links between business and political power are apparent across the Arab region, but are strongest...
Middle EastINTERNATIONAL: Self-starters reflect al-Qaida decline
On December 7, US citizen David Coleman Headley, already charged with seeking to bomb a Danish...
PROSPECTS 2010: US Middle East policy
The perennial 'big three' issues of US Middle East policy -- the Arab-Israeli conflict, Iran and...
Middle EastINTERNATIONAL:Islamic womanhood trumps gender equality
Islamic groups advocate conservative models of 'Islamic womanhood' and oppose the legal and...
MIDDLE EAST: Presidential security states take shape
Talk of a third wave of democratisation or of a global move towards greater political and...
Middle EastINTERNATIONAL: Regulation sinks MTN/Bharti merger
Merger negotiations collapsed yesterday between South Africa's MTN and India's Bharti AirTel,...
