Posts Tagged ‘Islamist’

Egypt: A Pivotal Moment For A Pivotal State

Thu Jan 27, 2011 15:42 GMT  | Leave a Comment

Egypt is entering a pivotal time in its modern history, as my colleagues and I explain today in Business Monitor Online. Popular protests against President Hosni Mubarak, inspired by those in Tunisia, are a major risk to his regime. However, even if the protests fail to dislodge Mubarak now, his advanced age (82) would appear… [Read more]

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Posted in: Africa, Book Review, General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk Leave a Comment

9/11 Eight Years On: Still An Inconclusive War

Fri Sep 11, 2009 15:31 GMT  | 1 Comment

Eight years after the ‘9/11’ terror attacks, the outcome of the subsequent ‘War on Terror’ is still inconclusive. Overall, I have not really changed my view from the blog post I wrote on the seventh anniversary. Neither ‘the West’ and its allied governments nor al-Qaeda and its offshoots have scored a decisive blow. In any… [Read more]

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