Six changes are underway in the Arab world that raise important questions about their meaning and the future of the region, writes Tarek Osman
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Europe must confront the fear that is haunting it if it is to face the future with clarity and confidence, writes Tarek Osman
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Tarek Osman discusses Europe’s political landscape
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America has been experiencing a new type of fear over recent decades, leading it to confront some difficult choices, writes Tarek Osman in the last in a series of articles
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The past decade has seen the introduction of fear into the American psyche, a new phenomenon largely alien to the country’s collective history, writes Tarek Osman
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The American experience in the Arab world has gone from romanticism to realpolitik over the past two centuries, with many Arab eyes now increasingly looking east, writes Tarek Osman
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There are two major considerations regarding America’s positioning in Asia, both having to do with its view of China, writes Tarek Osman
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America has begun to see China as a civilisation rather than merely a Communist regime, representing a major change in its strategic thinking, writes Tarek Osman
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Tarek Osman takes a long view at the US in the light of the changing global conditions
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War the US may have missed the peace dividend that should have guaranteed its economic prosperity and unchallenged place in the world.
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The last decade of the 20th century witnessed America’s dominion over the rest of the world, while the first decade of the 21st witnessed its growing confusion.
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Victory in the Cold War opened a new phase in America and for the country in the rest of the world, writes Tarek Osman
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America came to the world in three distinct phases, the last after its overwhelming victory in World War II, writes Tarek Osman
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America’s success in the world in the seven decades since World War II has always been a function of how well its brand is perceived abroad, writes Tarek Osman in the first in a series of articles
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The Ottomans tried to introduce reforms so that the people did not abandon the Ottoman idea and imagine replacements for it. They failed, writes Tarek Osman
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In the century since the fall of the Ottomans, no political project has proved more successful or more calamitous than Arab nationalism, writes Tarek Osman
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Of all the political projects that emerged in the Levant after the fall of the Ottomans, the modern state of Lebanon was the most ambitious and most fraught, writes Tarek Osman
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Hashemite rule has been among the most enduring political structures in the Levant in the century since the fall of the Ottomans, writes Tarek Osman
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The fall of the Ottoman Empire a century ago led to the emergence of new political ideas in the Levant, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula that continue to mark the region today, writes Tarek Osman
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Tarek Osman continues his series on Middle Eastern geopolitics by looking at US, Russian, and Chinese policies in
the region
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