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All Quiet on the Syrian Front: But Who are the Winners and Losers?

The rhetoric has been scaled-back. Potentially embarrassing Congressional votes have been avoided. Multinational conflict has (for now) become an unlikely possibility. In fact, since the chemical arms agreement with Syria was s...
by Miro Ralston
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Iraq
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The Dirty Politics Of Oil In Iraq

Sectarian violence and rampant extremism are pushing Iraq perilously close to the brink of civil war. As the government rains down airstrikes on the Anbar province, attempting to regain control over the militant-controlled town...
by Richard Corlett
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Middle East

Could Rebels be Syria’s Solution?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”icon_link”] With “Operation Damascus Volcano” under way, it is clear that opposition forces, ar...
by Nadine Tewfik-Saad
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WATCH: The Syrian Revolution in Three Minutes

When Syrians started taking to the streets in March 2011, one of the most common pro-regime thugs’ threats was “to take Syria back a 100 years”. This soon turned into a joke Syrians repeated as their rulers displayed thei...
by Syria Untold
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Lebanon

Confessing The Sins Of Consociationalism: Democracy in Lebanon

Lebanon has been debating the creation of a new electoral system since the end of its civil war in 1990, but with new elections scheduled for 2014, the country needs to reach a decision on how it plans to reform group represent...
by Hugh Oberlander
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Syrian Revolution: The Final Chapter

March of 2011 marked the beginning of the Syrian revolution. The struggle that rages on as I write this article has seen the lives of at least 60, 000 Syrians claimed by the regimes’ war machine. This astonishingly high figur...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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Lebanon
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In the Shadow of Syria: Will Lebanon Soon be Shrouded?

With news reports flooding in highlighting the ever deepening involvement of Hezbollah in Bashar al-Assad’s struggle for Syria, the scenario which so many Lebanese feared appears to be on the brink of being realized. Conflict...
by Michael Brown
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