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#Tunisia. False #Coup, Real #Political_crisis
▻https://orientxxi.info/magazine/tunisia-false-coup-real-political-crisis,2538

The dismissal on June 6 of Lofti Brahem, the Minister of Home Affairs, gave rise to the rumor of a coup in the offing. It was a symptom of a growing restiveness in Tunisia while the sensitive issues are piling up and the institutions have trouble asserting their authority. The world of politics is made up of visible components—institutions, parties, public figures—and also of more abstract entities: money, regional, tribal and familial allegiances, foreign influences, individual mentalities, (...)

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/ Tunisia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Coup, Political crisis

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« ▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2017/10/06/de-gaza-a-abou-dhabi-l-ascension-de-l-intrigant-mohammed-dahlan_5197098_3210 »

#Oman: Neutrality Under Pressure
▻https://orientxxi.info/magazine/oman-neutrality-under-pressure,2483

The Sultanate of Oman has always taken care to maintain a balance in its relations with #Saudi_Arabia and Iran, which has enabled it to act as a mediator in regional disputes. However, this independence may be compromised by the mounting geopolitical tension, particularly after the US withdrawal from the agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, all the more so as the sultanate has its own problems on the home front. “Confrontation is not in the interest of any of the parties involved,” the Omani (...)

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/ United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Saudi Arabia

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U.S. Policies in the #Middle_East under the Trump Presidency
▻http://orientxxi.info/magazine/u-s-policies-in-the-middle-east-under-the-trump-presidency,1808

Donald Trump has not yet formulated a clear foreign policy doctrine. Bur state appointments as well as the first decisions taken about #Syria or #Yemen, or the decision to use the most powerful US non-atomic bomb in Afghanistan, reveal some broad orientations of the future US policy in the Middle East. President Trump undertook the first substantive foreign policy initiative of his presidency on April 5 when he authorized U.S. military action in the aftermath of the chemical weapons attack (...)

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/ Syria, Yemen, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Middle East, #International_relations, #Geopolitics, #Bilateral_relations, #Saudi_Arabia, United (...)

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