Policy briefs
Policy briefs
- Israel’s internal frontier: the enduring power of ethno-nationalism
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Cathrine Thorleifsson
14 June 2013
This policy brief examines the paradox of Mizrahim (Arab Jews) supporting right-wing Israeli policies throu... more
- “We are one, but we are different”: Murle identity and local peacebuilding in Jonglei State, South Sudan
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Diana Felix da Costa
13 June 2013
Despite the Murle group being politically and economically marginalised, local and national political and p... more
- Pakistan’s 2013 elections: what implications for exclusion and fragility?
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Clare Castillejo
7 June 2013
Pakistan’s election result was a vote for the status quo and has clearly maintained power in the hands of t... more
- Brazil in the South Atlantic: growing protagonism and unintended consequences
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Adriana Erthal Abdenur ,
Danilo Marcondes de Souza Neto
27 May 2013
For most of the twentieth century, the strategic importance of the North Atlantic outstripped that of the s... more
- Tunisia after Ben Ali: retooling the tools of oppression?
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Derek Lutterbeck
13 May 2013
Tunisia under Ben Ali was a police state par excellence and reforming the country’s internal security appar... more
- Yemen’s domestic and regional politics
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Bernard Haykel
2 May 2013
Yemen is politically fragmented by three decades of misrule. Many political actors and constituencies oppos... more
- Turkish and Iranian interests and policies in the South Caucasus
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Evanthia Balla
23 April 2013
The South Caucasus, situated as it is at the crossroads of Eurasia’s major energy and transport corridors,... more
- Jordan’s East Banker-Palestinian schism
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Lamis El Muhtaseb
5 April 2013
Relations between the two peoples of Jordan (the East Bank Jordanians and Jordanians of Palestinian origin)... more
- Georgia: identity, foreign policy and the politics of a “Euro-Atlantic orientation”
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Kornely Kakachia
27 March 2013
Often considered to be a “beacon of democracy” in the post-Soviet space, Georgia has publicly committed its... more
- The main dimensions of Armenia’s foreign and security policy
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Narek S. Galstyan
26 March 2013
This policy brief surveys the core principles and objectives of Armenia’s foreign policy, which is influenc... more
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