Is Tunisia’s civil society under threat?
Tunisian civil society activists worry that proposed legislation will roll back associational freedoms and will be used as a pretext for curbing hard-won rights, says the Project on Middle East… Read more »
Category Archives: Middle East/North Africa
Limiting change through change: do Middle East elections matter?
Algeria’s regime has shown a capacity to distribute political and economic resources in a controlled manner. This allows it to “create an appearance of change and pluralism that has allowed… Read more »
Democracy dividend vs. autocratic model in crisis
Democracy is under siege. But the evidence that democracy is good for growth doesn’t directly speak to whether democracy is easy to make work. Nor does it imply or maintain… Read more »
Iraqi militias, US ‘make nice’ following elections?
Many Shiite armed factions in Iraq haven’t been threatening the United States of late, especially since they fared so well in the May 12 elections, receiving the second-most number of… Read more »
Turkey’s historic election: last off-ramp before dictatorship?
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is campaigning for re-election, seized on the latest Turkish growth figures as a vindication of his economic policies in the face of skepticism from not… Read more »