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• Global Perspective


• Libya


• Egypt


• Tunisia


• United States

Global Perspective

Commentary: Media

• • The Lands Autocracy Won’t Quit
  
  
  • David Cameron says West was wrong to back dictators
  
  
  
  
  • Greg Grandin: Brazil Stares Down the U.S. on Libya
  
  
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore: Every Revolution Is Revolutionary in Its Own Way
  
  
  • Greg Grandin: Brazil Stares Down the U.S. on Libya
  
  
  • Daniel Pipes: My Optimism about the New Arab Revolt
  
  
  • Fouad Ajami: How the Arabs Turned Shame Into Liberty
  
  
  • Alan Baumler: Sinai-etic Analogies
  
  
  • Ibrahim Al-Marashi: The Arab World's Leadership Deficit
  
  
  • Beijing wary of change in Egypt, says Jeffrey Wasserstrom
  
  
  • Juan Cole: The Great Arab Revolt
  
  
  • Richard Wolin: A Fourth Wave Gathers Strength in the Middle East
  
  
  • Fouad Ajami: Demise of the Dictators
  
  
  • Daniel Pipes: Islam and Democracy - Much Hard Work Needed
  
  
  
  
  • Steven A. Cook: After the Arab Spring
  
  
  • Praveen Swami: Tyrants Will Learn from Libya
  
  
  • Gideon Rachman: Libya ... The End of Western Intervention
  
  
  • Anne Applebaum: The French & British Go to War Again
  
  
  • Clifford D. May: An Arab Spring?
  
  
  • Leon Hadar: Burying Pan-Arabism
  
  
  • Jackson Diehl: Amid the Mideast protests, Where is Saudi Arabia?
  
  
  • James Traub: The End of the Arab Dream
  
  
  • Stephen Kinzer: Dictators' Sons, From Egypt to Libya, Are Doomed
  
  
  • Nathaniel Zelinsky: The Peace Sign in the Middle East
  
  
  • Joseph S. Nye, Jr.: New World Order
  
  
  • James Purnell: Why the west is losing the battle for Arab hearts and minds
  
  
  • Michael Freund: This is not 1776 ... Jeffersonian-style democracy isn’t about to flourish throughout the region
  
  
  • Michael Gerson: Arabs' Urge for Self-Government Shouldn't be a Surprise
  
  
  • Eli Rosenberg: Do Revolutions Create Good Governments?
  
  
  • John Gordon Steele: Is It 1848 in the Arab World?
  
  
  
  

Libya

Commentary: Media

• • Libya's Ex-Minister Reportedly Claims Qaddafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing
  
  
  • The History of Declaring War and the Politics of it Surrounding Libya
  
  
  
  
  • Tariq Ali: Libya is another case of selective vigilantism by the west
  
  
  • Micah Zenko: Debating the Lessons of History in Libya
  
  
  • Brett Holman: Libya's Century as a Target for Air Power
  
  
  • Jeffrey Herf: Why Germany was Against the Libya Intervention
  
  
  • Fouad Ajami: Obama's Holbrooke Moment
  
  
  • Niall Ferguson: Obama's Big Dither
  
  
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Our Libyan March Madness
  
  
  • Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways that Libya 2011 is Not Iraq 2003
  
  
  • David Gibbs: Kosovo ... a template for disaster
  
  
  • Max Boot: Planning for a Post-Qaddafi Libya
  
  
  • Yoni Appelbaum: The Third Barbary War
  
  
  • Walter Russell Mead: Obama’s War
  
  
  • Daniel Martin Varisco: A"No Fly" in the Ointment in Libya
  
  
  • Brett Holman: Libya's Century as a Target for Air Power
  
  
  • Stanley Kutler: Obama’s Libyan Quandary
  
  
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Should We Intervene in Libya?
  
  
  • Max Boot: It's Not Too Late to Save Libya
  
  
  • Niall Ferguson: How to Get Gaddafi
  
  
  • Daniel Pipes: Back to the Shores of Tripoli?
  
  
  • Ira Chernus: The Mythic Lure of the “No-Fly Zone”
  
  
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Obama as Hamlet
  
  
  • Ira Chernus: The Mythic Lure of the “No-Fly Zone”
  
  
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Libya without Gaddafi
  
  
  • Historian: Libya a"wild card"
  
  
  • John Foot: A Qaddafi Son, Italian Soccer and the Power of Money
  
  
  • Dirk Vandewalle: The Many Qaddafis
  
  
  • Juan Cole: 90% of Libya in Rebel Hands
  
  
  • Dirk Vandewalle: Is This Libya's New Revolution?
  
  
  • Libyan historian Ya'akov Hajaj-Lilof, how will the anti-Gadhafi protests end?
  
  
  • Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Gaddafi Redirects Arab Youth Against Israel
  
  
  
  
  • Richard Haass: Bleak history lessons for Libya's future
  
  
  • Jonathan Freedland: For dictators, Britain does red carpet or carpet-bombing
  
  
  • Joel Pollak: We Must Not Fear the Tyrants of Tripoli
  
  
  • Howard W. French: How Qaddafi Reshaped Africa
  
  
  • Edward Rees: The Case Against a No-Fly Zone in Libya
  
  
  • Daniel Pipes: Erdoğan and the"Al-Gaddafi Prize"
  
  
  • Bruce Anderson: What Seif Gaddafi taught me about realpolitik
  
  
  • Ahmed Chalabi: The Libyan Uprising: Lessons From Iraq
  
  
  • Alexander Chancellor: History Should Come Down Hard on Tony Blair for Embracing Gaddafi
  
  
  • Michael J. Totten: Libya’s Legacy
  
  
  • Sami Moubayed: Gaddafi ... Mad Dog of the Middle East
  
  
  • David Hughes: How Britain danced to Gaddafi's tune
  
  
  • Geoffrey Robertson: This evil despot must be brought to justice
  
  
  • Henry Srebrnik: Arab Awakening Arrives in Libya
  
  
  • David Rothkopf: The End Cannot Come Too Soon for Qaddafi & Son
  
  
  
  

Egypt

Commentary: Media

• • After the Revolution, Who Will Control Egypt's Monuments?
  
  
  • Debate swirls over Mubarak legacy
  
  
  • Egypt’s Path After Uprising Does Not Have to Follow Iran’s
  
  
  • How the War of Words Was Won in Cairo
  
  
  • Museums on high alert for ancient Egyptian loot
  
  
  • Egyptian antiquities chief reports damage but no theft at Cairo museum
  
  
  • Egypt: Looters rip heads off mummies
  
  
  
  
  • Gary Leupp: Iran and U.S. in the Suez Canal
  
  
  • James D. Le Sueur: Egypt and the Middle East, Stuck in the Past
  
  
  • Joel Beinin: Egypt's Workers Rise Up
  
  
  • Robert Zaretsky: Egypt and the Longue Durée
  
  
  • Sander A. Diamond: Will a Moderate Egypt Survive?
  
  
  • Juan Cole: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman
  
  
  • Walter Russell Mead: Mubaraks, Mamelukes, Modernizers and Muslims
  
  
  • James D. Le Sueur: Egypt and the Middle East, Stuck in the Past
  
  
  • Niall Ferguson: Egypt: How Obama Blew It
  
  
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Reflections on the Revolution in Egypt
  
  
  • Guy Laron: The Egyptian Middle Class Is Disgruntled. Again.
  
  
  • William Lambers: Egypt Again Shines Spotlight on Global Food Crisis
  
  
  • Yoav Di-Capua: Quo Vadis Egypt? Reflections on the Egyptian Revolution
  
  
  • Arthur E. Goldschmidt Jr.: Don't Call Egyptian Protests a Revolution ... Yet
  
  
  • Kai Bird: Why the Egypt Revolution Is Good for Israel
  
  
  • Rashid Khalidi: The Promise of Real Democracy in Egypt
  
  
  • Deepak Tripathi: The Meaning of the Egyptian People’s Revolution
  
  
  • Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Clapper: Muslim Brotherhood Largely Secular
  
  
  • Timothy Garton Ash: Not 1989. Not 1789. But Egyptians can Learn from Other Revolutions
  
  
  • Douglas Brinkley: What Reagan Would Do in Egypt
  
  
  • Richard Bulliet: Egypt and Al-Qaeda
  
  
  • Mark LeVine: The Shaping of a New World Order
  
  
  • David A. Bell: Why We Can't Rule Out an Egyptian Reign of Terror
  
  
  • David Armitage: What Would Marx Say about Cairo?
  
  
  • Jonathan Tremblay: Egyptian Unrest and Historical Consequences
  
  
  • Edwin Black: Egypt Protests -- Mideast House of Cards Brought Down In Days by Twitter and the Arab Street
  
  
  • Judith Apter Klinghoffer: After President Mubarak, Vice President Suleiman?
  
  
  • Samuel Redman: Preserving Mummies, Preserving Heritage
  
  
  • Barry Rubin: Naïveté on Egypt Is Dangerous
  
  
  • Walter Russell Mead: The Plagues of Egypt
  
  
  • Robert Tignor: Popular Uprisings in Egypt’s Recent History
  
  
  • Juan Cole: Why Egypt 2011 is Not Iran 1979
  
  
  • Niall Ferguson Explains Why Egypt Is More Like Iran Than Berlin
  
  
  • Daniel Martin Varisco: All Eyes on Egypt
  
  
  • How did the U.S. get in bed with Mubarak? Q&A with Joel Beinin
  
  
  • Barry Rubin: An Interview on the Egyptian Revolt: I'm Worried That Others Aren't Worried
  
  
  • Juan Cole: The Corruption Game
  
  
  
  
  • Michael Schwartz: Why Mubarak Fell
  
  
  • Nathan J. Brown: Egypt's Constitutional Ghosts
  
  
  • Tina Rosenberg: What Egypt Learned from the Students Who Overthrew Milosevic
  
  
  • John B. Judis: Stop Calling It Egypt’s Revolution … because the country hasn’t yet had one
  
  
  • Patrick Seale: Has the Israel-Egypt peace treaty really helped 'stability'?
  
  
  • Ahmed Rashid: Cairo needs help to avoid al-Qaeda’s grip
  
  
  • Jen Marlowe: From An Israeli Prison to Tahrir Square Square
  
  
  • Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, David Held, and Alia Brahimi: The Arab 1989?
  
  
  • Anne Applebaum: Channeling Egypt's Energy of the Crowd into Positive Change
  
  
  • Leon Hadar: Don’t Party Like It’s 1989 - It's More Like 1848
  
  
  • David Rothkopf: In the Middle East, too much knowledge of history can be dangerous
  
  
  • Roya Hakakian: Egypt Through the Lens of Iran's 1979 Revolution
  
  
  • Martin Indyk: How to bend history’s arc for the better
  
  
  • Haider Khan: Egypt after Mubarak: History Has Been Made, but What's Next?
  
  
  • Nikolai Grozni: The Ghost of Revolutions Past
  
  
  • John Gledhill: Whither Egypt's Military?
  
  
  • David Rothkopf: In the Middle East, too much knowledge of history can be dangerous
  
  
  • Andrew C. McCarthy: Don’t Count on Egypt’s Army
  
  
  • Ben Heineman Jr.: The Future of Egypt and the Riddles of History
  
  
  • Fareed Zakaria: Egypt's Real Parallel to Iran's Revolution
  
  
  • Max Ajl: Egyptian Protests Grounded in Decades of Struggle; Portend Regional Transformation
  
  
  • Scott Atran: Egypt’s Bumbling Brotherhood
  
  
  • Thomas Carothers: Egypt and Indonesia
  
  
  • Aaron Goldstein: Why Israel Worries About a Post-Mubarak Egypt
  
  
  • Ed Husain: Egypt can bring in the Brotherhood
  
  
  • Maher Hathout: A second chance for democracy in Egypt
  
  
  • Geneive Abdo: Why Cairo 2011 is not Tehran 1979
  
  
  • Richard Cohen: A Democratic Egypt or a State of Hate?
  
  
  • Andrew C. McCarthy: Fear the Muslim Brotherhood
  
  
  • Scott MacLeod: A Proud Moment in Egypt's History
  
  
  • Haider Khan: Egypt—What’s Next?
  
  
  
  

Tunisia

Commentary: Media

• • Ousted Tunisian Dictator Accused of Looting and Despoiling Carthage
  
  
  
  
  • Historian of Tunisia: Life without Ben Ali
  
  
  • Frank Uekoetter: The Masses 2.0 – Tunisia’s Turmoil in Perspective
  
  
  • Timothy Garton Ash: Tunisia's revolution isn't a product of Twitter or WikiLeaks. But they do help
  
  
  • Mark LeVine: Tunisia: How the U.S. Got It Wrong
  
  
  • Juan Cole: Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East
  
  
  • Daniel Pipes: Turmoil in Tunisia
  
  
  
  
  • David Rieff: Wilting Jasmine
  
  
  • Robert D. Kaplan: One Small Revolution
  
  
  • Nadia Marzouki: Tunisia’s Wall Has Fallen
  
  
  • Mohamed Ali Horrath: Why 14 January 2011 will go down in history
  
  
  • Josef Joffe: Why Tunisia Isn’t a Tipping Point for the Arab World
  
  
  • Christopher Alexander: The Last King of Tunisia ... The Strange Rise and Fall of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali
  
  
  • Mona Eltahawy: Tunisia ... the first Arab revolution
  
  
  • Rami Khouri: Tunisia heralds a long battle for Arab reform
  
  
  
  

United States

Commentary: Media

• • Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution
  
  
  
  
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Amazing Achievements
  
  
  • Left debates Libya: Juan Cole's open letter to the left on intervention; Phyllis Bennis and Vijay Prasad respond
  
  
  • Juan Cole: An Open Letter to the Left on Libya
  
  
  • Bruce Ackerman: Obama’s Unconstitutional War
  
  
  • Matt Jacobs: What Can Air Power Achieve? From Rolling Thunder to Odyssey Dawn
  
  
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Amazing Achievements
  
  
  • Reza Aslan and Mark LeVine: Obama's Selective Intervention in Libya is Tarnishing the American Image Even More in the Arab World
  
  
  • Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman: The Enemies of Our Enemy ... Al Qaeda and the Libyan Rebels
  
  
  • Tom Engelhardt: All-American Decline in a New World
  
  
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Why the Islamic Right Should Act Like the Christian Right
  
  
  • Julian E. Zelizer: Should Top U.S. Goal Be Democracy?
  
  
  • Chris Myers Asch: Thanks, George: How America Avoided Egypt’s Fate
  
  
  • Tom Engelhardt: The End of the American Empire in the Middle East
  
  
  • Georgy Gounev: Egypt, the United States, and the Ghost of Khomeini
  
  
  • Philip Zelikow: This is not a revolution made in America
  
  
  • Kai Bird: Obama's"Shah Problem"
  
  
  • Mark LeVine: President Obama, Say the 'D-Word'
  
  
  
  
  • John B. Judis: Obama and American Power
  
  
  • John Yoo and Robert Delahunty: Mission Not Accomplished
  
  
  • Tom Malinowski: Why Isn't Obama Getting Credit for Stopping an Atrocity?
  
  
  • Robert Haddick: The Latest Temptation of Air Power
  
  
  • Fred Kaplan: Is Libya Like Kosovo?
  
  
  • Karl Rove: Obama Bungles the Libya Speech
  
  
  • Jacob Bronsther: Mubarak Steps Down. Will Obama Step Up?
  
  
  • Fred Hiatt: Obama needs a freedom agenda he can believe in
  
  
  • Laith Saud: U.S. Must Shift Paradigm Away From Its Current View of Arab World
  
  
  • Kate Seelye: Obama's Woodrow Wilson Moment
  
  
  • Con Coughlin: Obama, the cold-eyed assassin of Middle Eastern despots
  
  
  • Jeff Jacoby: The vindication of the 'freedom agenda'
  
  
  • Paul R. Pillar: The Freedom Agenda Revisited
  
  
  • Eli Lake: Lessons From 2005 ... the Last Time the U.S. Faced a Democratization Crisis in Egypt
  
  
  • Jonathan S. Tobin: The Analogy Between 1989 and 2011: The First Bush and Obama
  
  
  • James Traub: Is It Time for America to Dump The Arab Autocrats?