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Europe Still Looking Backward at Its Southern Neighbors

In its foreign policy toward North Africa and the Middle East, the EU is putting stability before human rights, as it did before the Arab Spring.

· March 30, 2016
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Strategic Europe
Letter From Algiers

Algerians want Europe to be far more involved in promoting democracy, freedom of the media, independent civil society, and migration issues.

· February 19, 2016
In the Media
Women and Jihad

Women, who not only offer moral support, but also combatant support in the field, contribute—directly or indirectly—to an industry of death, as they strive for the inexorable march of jihadism, and the extermination of those they see as “impious” and “apostates.”

· September 15, 2014
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Algeria Avoids the Arab Spring?

Islamists did not fare well in the Algerian parliamentary elections, despite the rise of Islamist parties in Egypt and Tunisia, because the main Islamist party is still banned and Algerians are scarred by the memories of the country’s civil war.

· May 31, 2012
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Simmering Discontent in the Western Sahara

Morocco’s friends in the West, especially the United States and France, must pressure Rabat to expedite a significant devolution of power to the Western Sahara to limit the threat of instability.

· March 12, 2012
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A Faster, Better Route to Economic Integration Across the Mediterranean

Extending the customs union between Turkey and the EU to countries in the Middle East and North Africa would make establishing a free trade area across the Mediterranean much simpler and eliminate disincentives to trade and investment.

· October 13, 2011
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Algeria’s Oil Revenues Will Not Prevent Social Upheaval

Unless Algeria's leaders quickly address the major structural problems plaguing the nation's economy and increase government oversight, protests in the country will likely grow.

· February 7, 2011
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Time to Overhaul the European Union’s Role in North Africa

The EU, which has worked for decades on North Africa’s development, must step up its efforts to bolster the region’s private sector and dismantle its own agricultural protectionism.

· January 27, 2011