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April 17, 2012

Development
Building Small Business Amid Great Challenge: Entrepreneurship in Fragile States

Shari Berenbach, director of the Microenterprise Development Office at USAID, details how the agency promotes entrepreneurship in conflict and developing regions by empowering and encouraging women t…

Podcast

December 31, 1969

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia in the New Middle East

Leading regional experts Gregory Gause, III and Toby C. Jones assess the stability of Saudi Arabia, its role in the reshaped region, and the future of U.S.-Saudi relations.

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September 19, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram in the Niger Delta?

A man, suspected of being involved in a series of bomb attacks, walks handcuffed outside the Wuse magistrate court in Nigeria's capital Abuja September 13, 2011. (Afolabi Sotunde/Courtesy Reuters) T…

Boko Haram in the Niger Delta?

August 17, 2011

Israel
The Eagle Has Landed…In Sinai?

Flames rise from an Egyptian pipeline distribution station after an attack in the Sinai peninsula (STR New/Courtesy Reuters) Let’s review what’s happening in the Middle East:  Syrian forces are atta…

The Eagle Has Landed…In Sinai?

July 14, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
Can Israel Be a "Jewish State?"

Negotiations between Israel and the PLO have been stalled for many reasons, but a central issue is the Palestinian refusal to acknowledge Israel as a “Jewish state.” The whole idea behind the partit…