by Ian Platz | Jan 23, 2013 | Monitor
ASP Fellow for Asymmetric Operations Joshua Foust was featured in USA Today discussing the growing depth of Al-Qaeda and associated movements in Africa. Joshua Foust, a former senior intelligence analyst for the U.S. military and a political analyst for the Defense...
by raffaellopantucci | Jan 21, 2013 | Monitor
It has been an eventful weekend as the Algerian crisis appears to have finally wrapped up. I have been doing various bits of media, including a short interview that was used in this piece in the Sunday Telegraph, focusing in particular on the Algerian connection to...
by Marc Lynch | Dec 16, 2012 | Monitor
It has been widely noted that monarchies have done better at surviving the Arab uprisings that began two years ago. Three Presidents (Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Saleh) have fallen, along with Muammar al-Qaddafi’s unique Jamahiriaya, while Bashar al-Assad’s...
by casey.marye | Dec 2, 2012 | Monitor
— The Middle East Channel Editor’s Blog — There are plenty of strong reasons for the United States and the international community to remain deeply cautious about taking a deeper role in Syria’s internal war. Concerns about the nature of...
by greenberg | Dec 1, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Egypt, Government, Tunisia
by Nathaniel Greenberg The sudden vote on a new Constitution in Egypt has done little to stem tension in Egypt following the decree of President Mohamed Morsi to grant himself unilateral powers in driving the legislative agenda. In a live appearance on Egyptian...