Growing competition among Middle Eastern powers – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and the UAE – has forced almost all of them to establish their influence beyond the Gulf region and look for allies elsewhere. For almost all of these states, Africa is the best destination, not only because the continent is well poised to develop […]
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On Libya’s front lines, Sirte is focus for regional rivalries
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Zimbabwe: Domestic Rivalries, US-China Competition Underlie Political Crisis
NEW YORK (Analysis) — On November 14, 2017 military forces in Zimbabwe took control of the streets, sequestered President Robert Mugabe in his residence, and publicly announced that the kinda sorta but not really coup was merely a clean-up operation intended to “target criminals.” While the claim does have some merit – Zimbabwe’s government, like […]
The ‘New Cold War’ – A Rehash of Old Rivalries
What will the “new cold war” look like? (Illustration by Brad Holland) William BlumICH The anti-Russian/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they would have enough self-awareness and enough journalistic integrity -– just enough -– to be concerned about their image. But it keeps on coming, piled […]
Rebel Rivalries Hold Up Governing in Libya
David D. Kirkpatrick and Kareem Fahim New York Times September 26, 2011 TRIPOLI, Libya — When the fighters who ousted Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi find caches of weapons from his arsenals, they do not entrust them to Libya’s new provisional government. Instead, they haul them back to their hometowns, like Misurata, Zintan, Yafran or Rujban. And when they […]