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ActivitesElection CoverageLebanon June 13, 2009

Who Won Lebanon, And What Now?

Claims of U.S. influence in Lebanon’s elections last Sunday, including from Syria’s Al-Baath daily newspaper, point to Secretary Clinton and Vice President Biden’s pre-election visits as having impacted a March
Election CoverageIran June 13, 2009

Iran’s Great Debate

Over at Vote For Iran, Trita Parsi writes how the U.S. House of Representatives may inadvertantly be helping Ahmadinejad win the election due to some of the language in H.R.1327.
ActivitesHuman Rights June 13, 2009

Satellite Democracy

Democracy Digest draws attention to Dishing Democracy, a recent PBS documentary on the relationship between satellite TV and democratic change.
ActivitesElection CoverageLebanon June 13, 2009

POMED Notes: “Lebanon Elections: Outcomes and Implications” at MEI

The Middle East Institute yesterday
ActivitesElection CoverageLebanon June 13, 2009

The Road To Democracy: Peace or Violence In Lebanon?

While President Obama and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have praised the success of Lebanon’s elections in creating national consensus,
ActivitesElection Coverage June 13, 2009

Morocco’s Shifting Political Landscape Prefaces Elections

Morocco’s new electoral laws are likely frame women to be the winners in tomorrow’s municipal elections, reports the National. A new quota for women’s seats (12%) makes Morocco the leader
ActivitesElection CoverageIran June 13, 2009

The Eve of Iran’s Presidential Election

The tension is palpable. An editorial in the Financial Times notes that challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi has “mounted an unexpectedly menacing insurgent campaign that has galvanised reformists out of years of
ActivitesElection CoverageHuman Rights June 13, 2009

Electoral Showdown in Mauritania

Mauritania’s strongest opposition movement, the Union of Democratic Forces (RFD)
ActivitesElection CoverageOther Issues June 13, 2009

Yemeni Secessionists Reject Northern Elite

Clamorous calls for secession are on the rise in southern Yemen, where violence intensified during May.
ActivitesHuman RightsOther Issues June 13, 2009

House Passes Foreign Relations Authorization Bill

The Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 (H.R. 2410) was approved yesterday by the House. This legislation, the first such bill introduced since 2002, aims to