Current Analysis Salih’s Road to Reelection Following six months of rumor and speculation in Yemen, President Ali Abdallah Salih did the expected and announced that he would stand for reelection in the presidential contest scheduled for September 2006. Salih accepted the nomination of his ruling General People’s Congress party on December 17, Gregory Johnsen • 13 min read
MER Article Networks of Discontent in Northern Morocco What are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms? A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy wins so many recruits James Ketterer • 13 min read
MER Article "I Am Living in a Foreign Country Here" A friend introduced me to ‘Abd al-Haq during the elections in Algeria in December 1991. I was surveying the electoral behavior of youths of the poorer quarters of Algiers (the casbah), the suburbs (Bachdjarah) and a mixed neighborhood (El-Biar). At the time I was trying to meet pietistes (devout one Meriem Verges • 11 min read
MER Article Ehrenfeld, Narcoterrorism Rachel Ehrenfeld, Narcoterrorism (Basic Books, 1990). Ever since the Reagan administration elevated “narco-terrorism” to the status of a national security threat, ideologists of left and right have staked out predictable positions. [1] Foes of Cuba, Nicaragua and other leftist regimes or movements Jonathan Marshall • 6 min read
