CIGA Staff

CIGA Staff

China’s National Defense in the New Era

Organization /Publisher: Foreign Languages Press Co. Ltd. Beijing, China. Date/Place: July 2019, China Type: Whitepaper Number of Pages: 51 Link: Brief: China’s State Council Information Office released a new national defense white paper in July 2019, which is the protracted…

 Asia’s Future is Now

Authors: Oliver Tonby, Senior partner in McKinsey’s Singapore office               Wonsik Choi, Senior partner in the Seoul office              Jonathan Woetzel, Director of the McKinsey Global Institute              Jeongmin Seong, Senior fellow at McKinsey Global Institute            Patti Wang, Consultant at McKinsey Global Institute  Affiliation: McKinsey Global Institute  Publisher: McKinsey Global…

There will be a one state solution

Author(s):Yousef Munnayer Affiliation: The US campaign for Palestinian rights Organization/Publisher: Foreign Affairs Date/Place: November/December 2019, U.S. Type: Analysis Word Count: 3531 Link: Brief: The article, “There will be a one-state solution” argues that the one-state solution is the only way…

Oil and Institutional Stasis in the Persian Gulf

Author(s): Mehran Kamrava Affiliation: Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University, Qatar Org. /Publisher: Routledge Date 7, 2019, Qatar        Type: Journal Article Number of Pages: 12 pages Link:  Brief: Explaining the resource curse is the Dutch Disease theory that warns states with abundant…

Israel’s Secret war in Sudan

Author: Gearóid Ó Colmáin Affiliation: Independent political analyst. Paris Correspondent for American Herald Tribune Organization/Publisher: Gearóid Ó Colmáin Date/Place: August 2, 2019, France Type: Analysis Word Count: 4042 Words  Link: Brief: In reference to the protests in April 2019…

The Middle East’s lost Decades: Development, Dissent and the Future of the Arab World

Author(s): Maha Yahya  Affiliation: Carnegie Middle East Center  Org. /Publisher: Foreign Affairs  Date/Place: November/December 2019, U.S. Type: Analysis   Link:  Brief:  The author examines “development” (both human and economic) in the Arab world after the Arab Spring in comparison to their status before 2011. The author proposes that although the…

The Tunisia Model: Lessons from a New Arab Democracy

Author: Sarah E. Yerkes Affiliation: Carnegie’s Middle East Program Organization /Publisher: Foreign Affairs Date/Place: November/December 2019, U.S. Type: Analysis     Link:  Brief: The author argues that despite the persisting inherited problems from Ben Ali’s regime coupled with the violent extremism that followed post-revolutionary Tunisia, as well…