Middle East and North Africa

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Lebanon at a Turning Point? New Signals and Old Power Structures

Israel’s military strikes have weakened Hezbollah and created opportunities for newly elected Lebanese president Joseph Aoun to bring about political …

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Turbulence or Transformation: Is Kuwait likely to Restore Parliamentary Life? 

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Opinion

Changing Plans? Saudi Regionalism After Gaza

Opinion

Iran: Why the Revolutionary Process Is Likely to Persist

Analysis

A Crunch Year for EU-Turkey Relations: With or without Erdoğan

Analysis

Tunisia’s Undemocratic Drift

Analysis

Between COVID-19, COP 27 and the World Cup: Crisis Management in the Arab World

Analysis

How Turkey Transforms Libya

Street Protest in Latin America

Analysis

BTI 2022: An Alarm Signal for Democracy

Analysis

International Human Rights Day: Those Who Do Not Officially Exist Have No Rights

Analysis

The End of Egypt’s State of Emergency: Is This the Beginning of a Fundamental Transformation?

Analysis

Tunisia’s Democracy Experiment Put to the Test

Analysis

Elections in Iran: Khamenei Silences Potential Opposition Ahead of Upcoming Ballot

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UN Human Rights Council: As the US Returns, it will have to deal with China and its Friends

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Ten Years of Arab Spring: Challenging Some Autocratic Myths

Analysis

Saudi Presidency of the G20: Kingdom of Intolerance

Event

Transatlantic Dialogue VII – Assessing reform potential in Lebanon and Tunisia

Event

Transatlantic Dialogue III – Five Falling Stars: The Decline of Rule of Law and Democratic Multilateralism

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The results of the BTI 2020 in the context of COVID-19

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