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Diplomacy works, but it cannot defuse every threat

One of the enduring myths about the cold war is that the nuclear stand-off between the US and Soviet Union made the world a safer place. Never mind that mishap or miscalculation would have reduced the planet to radioactive dust. The balance of terror provided certainty; and certainty equalled security. Today’s threats, though diminished, are asymmetric and unpredictable; the world is more dangerous for that. ..

Hamas gains ground in university poll with wider echoes

The main contenders in this week’s student elections at Birzeit University, a barometer for decades of Palestinian public opinion, marched into battle like rival armies...

Time to appoint a Middle East envoy

In speech after spell-binding speech, Barack Obama made clear throughout his campaign his intention to restore America’s reputation in the world; that, as he told the vast crowd at his Chicago victory rally, "America’s beacon still burns as bright". In the Middle East and throughout broad swathes of the Muslim world, that beacon is invisible after eight years of the Bush administration’s bungling. President-elect Obama has a unique chance to rekindle it...

A shift in the thinking of Egyptian Islamists

A fresh wave of Egyptian government crackdowns against the main opposition movement has been directed against a varied range of targets - a students’ "summer camp" on the Mediterranean coast, an evening meeting of senior officials at a businessman’s Cairo residence, and the more typical dawn raids on members’ houses...

Islamists under fire draft first political programme

fresh wave of Egyptian government crackdowns against the main opposition movement has been directed against a varied range of targets - a students’ "summer camp" on the Mediterranean coast, an evening meeting of senior officials at a businessman’s Cairo residence, and the more typical dawn raids on members’ houses. ..

Can Morocco’s Islamists check al-Qaida?

Morocco’s elections in September could be decisive since its moderate Islamists, from the Justice and Development Party (PJD), seem poised for easy victory. The PJD has watched the electoral success of Turkey’s Islamists, but Morocco may not yet be ready to follow the Turkish..