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Latter-Day Sultans

Armed with pitch-perfect talking points for the Facebook generation, a clique of fortunate sons in the Middle East is set to take over their fathers' sclerotic dictatorships. But this is not regime change. Monarchy is back.

The Somali Model?

Somalia represents interventionst's perfect storm, but our difficulties there demonstrate the military's limits in the War on Terror.

The Battle for Nigeria

As controversy surrounds Nigeria’s recent presidential elections, the United States cannot afford to ignore the West African giant’s problems.

Nyerere: A Flawed Hero

To acknowledge that Nyerere was better than most African leaders of his generation amounts to only modest praise. His record was a decidedly mixed one.

A Modest Proposal: Southern Africa and the World Bank

Given the dramatic turn-around South Africa has experienced in the last few years, it would be appropriate for the World Bank to choose the southern African development community as a privatization model.

Commentary

Conservative Columnist: Symbolism and Realpolitik

Congress is now considering two largely symbolic measures that could harm U.S. interests in Africa and the Middle East. A report from The New York Times seems to confirm J. Peter Pham’s prediction that Turkey

Resolving the Western Sahara Saga

A former U.S. ambassador to Morocco discusses the prospects for peace in the long-running conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front insurgency.

End the Stalemate in the Sahara

The United States and the international community ought to support the stability of North Africa by safeguarding the territorial integrity of Morocco and ending the conflict in the Saraha.

Books & Reviews

Things Fall Apart, Review of Robert Kaplan's The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Kaplan has interesting things to say about what it is like to travel by public conveyances and rub shoulders with ordinary, common people in some of the earth's poorest and most stressful human environments.

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February 12, 2012