China’s inroads in the Middle East demonstrate how the region is still a critical front in the era of US-China competition.

The pro-democracy movement marked the death knell of Arab nationalism and unintentionally quickened a shift of regional power toward the Gulf States.

Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long ...

As Tunisia marks the 15th anniversary of the revolution that provoked the Arab Spring, RFI spoke to exiled former leader ...

The Arab Spring is not a completed event but a process that has fundamentally altered the region’s political landscape… but ...

On December 17, 2010, Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, triggering protests across the Arab world.

Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (Reuters / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have ...

John Rossomando, The Arab Spring Ruse: How the Muslim Brotherhood Duped Washington in Libya and Syria (Washington, DC: The Center for Security Policy, 2021), pp. 128. There is a fundamental sickness ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It only took one decade. Ten years ago this month, democratic movements, ...

There is a fundamental sickness in liberal foreign policy. So argues John Rossomando, an analyst at the Washington-based think tank for The Center for Security Policy and a former researcher for the ...