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When Arab States and Citizens Differ on Palestine |
Two and a half years after the Arab uprisings erupted, we are starting to witness the first small signs of the regional implications of the birth of Arab citizens and a public political sphere defined by populist legitimacy, notes Rami G. Khouri. |
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Playing Political Football with Fuel Subsidies in Iraqi Kurdistan |
Because of all the disputes between Iraq’s central government and the authorities in the semi-autonomous state of Iraqi Kurdistan on, amongst other topics, how the oil industry is managed, the central government has been playing politics with its fuel coupons, writes Shwan Zulal. |
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Syria: No Win for the West |
Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria, notes Immanuel Wallerstein. |
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Pakistan's Elections: Turning Over a New Leaf |
Pakistan is not so different from other majority-Muslim states, which all share a history of authoritarian, top-down forced adoption to western modernity, characterized by accepting an imposed economic system of capitalism and a political system composed of ‘sovereign’ ethnically distinct nation states, says Eric Walberg. |
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