Epstein Secrets

countries as well as between them and other Arab countries. In contrast, three Arab countries from the Mediterranean region — Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia — show active scientific cooperation with the international community, especially the OECD and France in particular. This implies that social proxim

2.3 3.8 Arab State 0.3 03 3.9 2.4 4.1 3.8 Developing countries 2.3 2.9 5.3 3.9 5.7 4.0 Source: a UNDP (2003) and IMF (2002). GCC — Gulf Cooperation Council. 4.2.5. Technology Infrastructures and Technology Achievement Index Figure 6 indicates that countries both the Arab regions are lagging behind the

despotic regimes. The Arab world is currently going through a social and political revolution that has so far claimed two "entrenched" regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. At least three other regimes in the region are fighting for their lives, and are not expected to survive. There will soon be different s

dent's many years as a strong U.S. ally). To facilitate this handover, Riyadh is leading a diplomatic effort under the auspices of the six-country Gulf Cooperation Council. In Iraq, the Saudi government will continue to pursue a hard-line stance against the Maliki government, which it regards as little more than an Ir

al shift toward re-imagining a wider Muslim polity (no one for now is suggesting dissolving their own nation-states, although the prime minister of Tunisia has suggested he anticipates the beginning of the Fourth Caliphate) holds important implications for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict too. Over re

t edge of hysteria and aggression: a recent EFTA_R1_02203688 EFTA02720376 editorial in the Saudi-owned al-Hayat stated: "The climate in the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] indicates that matters are heading towards a GCC-Iranian-Russian confrontation on Syrian soil, similar to what took place in Afghanistan during th

her civilian aid ramp-up. This time, Washington plans to use aid for political and economic development in the Arab Spring countries: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and, perhaps, a few more players to be named later. The administration's starting point is a request earlier this year that Congress establish the

protect it, such an assault would be suicidal. Certainly none of the region's Sunni Arab countries -- Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the smaller Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states -- will come to Iran's aid. None of these countries uttered a word when in 2007 Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor of Sunni-Arab Syr