... foreign policy Saudi Arabia Gulf Cooperation Council Al Jazeera Bahrain Kuwait Oman United Arab Emirates UAE Iran Egypt Muslim Brotherhood Muhammad bin Salman Thani 342 Years of anger at Doha s brash regional policies may have made the opportunity to put Qatar back in its place...

... rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Marc Lynch Arab Spring public sphere Egypt Tahrir Square Al Jazeera Qatar Kuwait Tunisia Libya Hosni Mubarak Mohamed Morsi Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Muslim Brotherhood satellite television Internet social...

... Fawaz Gerges jihadism middle east ISIS ISIL IS Islamic State caliph caliphate Islamism islamist fundamentalism fundamentalist terrorist root orgin sectarian co-opt sharia execution al-Baghdadi near east Al Qaeda AQI Qutb jihad jihadist Syria Iraq Kurds Kurd Kurdish...

... palace grassroots PJD Al qaeda Bouteflika Libya Salafi salafist enlightened despot 185 Beyond idealistic notions of an Arab Spring that would bring forth liberal democracies throughout the region, today there is a realization that many shades of gray remain in the (formal and informal...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Michael Boyle drone UAV unmanned aerial vehicle effectiveness civilian casualty casualties Afghanistan Pakistan Al Qaeda tactic strategy tactical strategic Obama administration policy strike...

... Washington self-delusion hamid gul DIA Al Qaeda Taliban counterparts Zulfikar Ali Bhutto B ooks The Pathological Alliance Sumit Ganguly Few of America s bilateral ties have been as Haqqani s book Magnificent Delusions represents fraught as those with Pakistan. Since 1958, a milestone. Haqqani...

... destruction Al Qaeda 40 [T]errorism seems to grow when states are strong enough to exert repression that creates grievances, but not strong enough to eradicate opposition. The Long View of Terrorism MArthA crenShAw Terrorism, a form of violence that deliber-ately rather than inadvertently targets civil...

... Sunni Shiite sectarian Al Qaeda Taliban George Bush Barack Obama © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California 152 PERSPECTIVE When the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban...

... War , Edited by Hy Rothstein and John Arquilla . Georgetown University Press , 2012 . © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California William Finan Afghanistan Al Qaeda Taliban Barack Obama book review Barnett Rubin Fred...

...Stephen Kinzer A dose of humility might lead Americans to realize that military intervention always produces unforeseen consequences. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Stephen Kinzer Libya Mali intervention Al Qaeda Muammar...

...Ken Menkhaus While transitional politics and the war against Al Shabab are dominating headlines, … a combination of intense pressures is making subsistence livelihoods less and less viable and producing massive, irreversible migrations with enormous long-term implications for Somalia and Kenya. ©...

... History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California William Finan Jay Bahadur Somalia piracy Al Shabab Gulf Aden naval 198 BookS In the first season of the HBO television series The Wire, the storyline is the battle between lo-cal law enforcement in Baltimore...

... United States Al Qaeda Afghanistan intelligence drones Zia ul-Haq Osama bin Laden 141 Pakistani leverage over the United States is shrinking as fast as Washington s patience, and America is now traveling down a road toward containment The Broken US-Pakistan Relationship shashank Joshi...

... Muslim Brotherhood Al Nahda Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Egypt Tunisia Libya Salafists 358 It makes no sense today to divide Arab politics into neatly crafted opposites, the Islamist versus the civil democratic blocs. Islamism After the Arab Spring aShraF el SheriF During the early...

... Middle East United States Britain development Muslim Brotherhood social media Iran Saudi Arabia Al Qaeda 364 The contagion effect created by the regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya suggests a significant degree of imagined community among Arabs everywhere. The Middle East in Flux...

... , 2011 . © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Robin Wright Rock the Casbah jihad Al Qaeda Arab Spring 372 BOOKS As the Arab Spring drifts toward winter, a small number of books has appeared that attempt to explain...

.... This was so even though Al Qaeda had previously bombed US embassies in Africa and attacked the USS Cole, and it was well known that the group was based in Afghanistan. The hasty preparation of a plan for ground combat in Afghanistan was based on assump- tions about the Soviet experience in that country...

... war China Central Treaty Organization Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Al Qaeda 138 The sense of being used, abused, and discarded now constitutes a central theme in Pakistan s ties to America. . . . How a Botched US Alliance Fed Pakistan s Crisis STephen p. Cohen Pakistan...

...Anoushiravan Ehteshami Iran's rise has alarmed Israel, Turkey, and the core Arab states in equal measure, encouraging a … reworking of the regional balance of power. © 2009 Current History. All rights reserved. 2009 The Regents of the University of California Middle East Iraq Iran Al...

...Emile Nakhleh It is imperative for the United States to engage mainstream Islamic political parties that are committed to gradual change through the ballot box. political Islam Middle East United States Hamas Hezbollah Muslims Al Qaeda sharia Barack Obama engagement 402...