MIDDLE EAST GOVERNANCE AND POLICY
October 27, 2008
"Israeli Words or Actions?"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The Israeli expressions of interest in the Arab peace plan are hard to fathom in terms of their seriousness, motivation or intent."
AP Photo
October 15, 2008
"The Notable Leadership of Salam Fayyad"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is doing some remarkable things despite having one of the most difficult jobs in the world.
October 8, 2008
"The High Cost of Incompetent Governance"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
In times like this -- global economic crisis -- the dominance of exclusively oil-fueled economies in the Arab World expose a regional lack of competent governance.
Yehuda Boltshauser
September 22, 2008
"Thirty Years of Peacemaking"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The peace-making legacy of Camp David and Oslo remains thin, but real. It is certain that Arabs and Israelis, with assorted eternal mediators, will try again to negotiate permanent peace agreements, perhaps starting as early as next spring."
AP Photo
Fall 2008
"Security and Displacement in Iraq: Responding to the Forced Migration Crisis"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 33
By Sarah Kenyon Lischer, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2002-2003
Since the 2006 bombing of the al-Askari Mosque, 4.5 million Iraqis have fled their homes, and displacement has become a central strategy in the civil war. To prevent the wide-scale militarization of the displaced Iraqis, donors and host states should heed the following policy recommendations. First, provide a massive infusion of humanitarian aid. Second, resist the temptation to build camps to house the displaced. Third, do not return the displaced people home against their will. Fourth, expand and expedite the resettlement process, especially for vulnerable Iraqis such as those who were once coalition employees.
Marcelo Wain
August 18, 2008
"Tripoli and Middle East Currents"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
When I returned to live and work in Lebanon some years ago, a wise Lebanese friend advised me to go to Tripoli in north Lebanon if I really wanted to understand the complex forces that drove the country and the region. He was right, as I discovered on several visits to the city. Today that advice is more valid than ever, though sadly the Middle East 's prevailing politics and ideologies often assert themselves violently.
Middle East 2008
"Learning from the Future, Innovating in the Present"
Journal Article, Innovations, Special Edition for the World Economic Forum on the Middle East 2008
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and Mirjam Schoening
"...In this special edition of Innovations journal, prepared for distribution at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East 2008, we have compiled three essays and five stories that illustrate what it means to learn from the future, and what it takes to innovate. Together, the insights in this volume trace a path from present challenges toward a future of prosperity, balance, and resilience...."
AP Photo
April 21, 2008
"The US Democracy Gap in the Arab World"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
One of the paradoxes of the complex relationship between the Arab World and the United States relates to the rhetoric and reality of democratic values. The George W. Bush administration has made democracy promotion a central pillar of its foreign policy in the Middle East at the level of rhetoric, but in practice it pays little heed to behaving democratically in its interaction with the Arab people.
AP Photo
April 15, 2008
"Two Arab Worlds Drift Further Apart"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
As oil prices and income to some Arab producers continue to rise, we can witness sharper polarization between the wealthy energy-producing, small population states of the Gulf, on the one hand, and the more populous, energy-importing Arab countries all around it in the Levant region, the Nile Valley, and further west into North Africa. Any person who travels to such places as Dubai, Doha, Bahrain, Amman, Cairo, Casablanca and Beirut moves between two very different worlds that are united by investment and labor flows but are being pushed further apart in most other spheres of life.
January 6, 2008
"Israel's False Friends"
Op-Ed, The Los Angeles Times
By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
"...the presidential candidates are no friends of Israel. They are like most U.S. politicians, who reflexively mouth pro-Israel platitudes while continuing to endorse and subsidize policies that are in fact harmful to the Jewish state."
