This series of articles has aimed to present the key trends that have shaped the Arab world over the past quarter of a century.
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There is more and more of a convergence in the views of some Arab and non-Arab powers in the region concerning the future of the Arab world, writes Tarek Osman
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There is no serious political project in the Arab world today that is inspired by, let alone adheres to, any of the tenets of Arab nationalism, writes Tarek Osman
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The Arab world’s key development projects and moments of rising potential have seen significant achievements but few sustained successes over the past 200 years, writes Tarek Osman
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The rise of Political Islam in the wake of the 2011 Arab uprisings raised crucial questions about the Arab world’s experience of modernity over the past 200 years.
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The fundamental problem that the 2011 Arab uprisings faced was that their will for total transformation was not widely shared among larger social segments.
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Iraq saw the most ambitious American socio-political experiment ever in the region with the 2003 US-led invasion of the country.
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America’s return to the Arab world and Middle East after World War II was built on earlier involvement and was far from being a case of exploring the unknown.
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The attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 were the first shocks on the international scene in the 21st century.
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As the world moves into the second quarter of the 21st century, what lessons can we learn from looking back over the past 25 years.
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She … always a she. Egypt has always, since time immemorial, resided in the psyche of her people as a she.
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There are two routes Europe could take in confronting today’s strategic landscape, writes Tarek Osman in the last in a series of articles
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Europe’s strategic autonomy and collective defence face difficult questions distinct from the continent’s cultural and economic successes.
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The new strategic orientations announced by Trump have led Europe to ask tough questions about its defence and place in the world, writes Tarek Osman in the first in a series of articles
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As this series of articles has aimed to show, the past 15 years brought some achievements and many failures. But transitions are, by definition, transient.
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The societies of the Arabian Peninsula are becoming increasingly detached from the rest of the Arab world, writes Tarek Osman
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The mix of powerlessness and anger in today’s Arab world is one result of the conflicts and civil wars the region has seen over recent decades.
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The major socio-political projects that emerged in the Arab world over the past century have left opposing legacies for the future.
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The Arabs have been losing influence at all the peripheries of the Arab world, writes Tarek Osman
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Israel’s strategic successes over the past 15 months have come at the cost of major challenges, writes Tarek Osman
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