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Articles of the author El Sayed Amin Shalaby
Capitalising on Oslo
After the UAE and Bahrain had signed peace deals with Israel, Arab countries stressed they support peace initiatives based on Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian lands and the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East (...)

22 - 09 - 2020
Abul-Gheit and the state of the world
In his inaugural speech before the annual conference of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, 21-22 December 2016, it was indicative that the secretary-general of the Arab League, Ahmed Abul-Gheit, gave much space to reading and analysing the (...)

03 - 01 - 2017
Taming Trump
As Donald Trump shocked the world by winning the race for the US presidency, the major question now is how the world will deal with the new US president given his views and prescriptions on US relations with the world, including Western allies. I (...)

29 - 11 - 2016
Looking ahead to Trump
In the run-up to the US presidential elections between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic rival Hilary Clinton there was great expectation among analysts and experts — this writer among them — that Hilary Clinton would win, being the (...)

22 - 11 - 2016
American foreign policy choices
With the advance of successive US presidential election campaigns, debate on American foreign policy also intensified, maybe with the exception of the 1968 elections, where foreign policy was not the major issue of that campaign season. Normally, (...)

25 - 10 - 2016
The new UN secretary-general: Which model?
The search is ongoing to select a new UN secretary- general to succeed Ban Ki-Moon. This article will not discuss the nationality of the new secretary-general or the region he or she represents, rather the issue of personal integrity, the willing to (...)

19 - 09 - 2016
Reactivating the peace process
During the last five years, due to Israeli, Palestinian, regional and international factors, the Palestinian cause retreated on the roster of regional and international agendas. In the process, the Israeli government under Netanyahu consolidated the (...)

15 - 08 - 2016
NATO and Russia: Between tension and dialogue
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and its annexation of Crimea, tension escalated between NATO and Russia, including a mutual military build-up and military manoeuvres. In a study (published in the quarterly Al-Siyassa Al-Dawliya by (...)

01 - 08 - 2016
Foreign policy after 30 June
Egypt's foreign policy and relations with the world are among the main achievements of the post-30 June regime. After months of troubled relations with international and regional powers — the US that suspended delivery of approved arms to Egypt; the (...)

12 - 07 - 2016
Is the US presence in the Middle East declining?
Throughout the second term of President Barack Obama a broad debate developed examining the status and influence of the US in the Middle East. The prevailing argument has been that the US presence in the region is retreating. Fawaz Gerges, a scholar (...)

28 - 06 - 2016
Is the American century really over?
It is an established fact that the crux of American global power and influence has been the US's great economic wealth. However, the crux of the American problem is economic decline. In The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, Paul Kennedy puts it (...)

26 - 05 - 2016
Towards nuclear security in the Middle East
When Egypt launched an initiative in the early 1990s to establish a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, the initiative met with indifference, particularly from the US and the West. In the wake of the 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) (...)

03 - 05 - 2016
Human rights in Egypt and European relations
Following the 30 June 2013 Revolution, when President Mohamed Morsi was deposed, relations between Egypt and the EU and its members witnessed times of tension. Catherine Ashton, the then EU foreign policy chief, visited Cairo in a bid to mediate (...)

19 - 04 - 2016
What awaits Russia in 2020?
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the US and the West declared “victory” over their main adversary and competitor for influence worldwide. In the immediate aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union as a regime, state and empire, the (...)

09 - 02 - 2016
Global governance: An Egyptian view
Through our able ambassador in Moscow, Mohamed Al-Badri, the Russian Council for International Affairs invited the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs for a joint conference. The topic was “Russia-Egypt: Bilateral and regional dimensions.” One of (...)

26 - 01 - 2016
On the war of ideas
In January 2015, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina convened a conference, “Towards an Arab Strategy to Face Extremism.” The conference was called to discuss the phenomenon of extremism, its causes, aspects and consequences, and how to deal with it. The (...)

13 - 01 - 2016
Russia in the Middle East
Regardless of the change of ideology and political system, Russian foreign policy, in the Middle East in particular, as it has developed since 2000 under Vladimir Putin, is a kind of continuation of Soviet policy. Russia's role as a major power and (...)

06 - 01 - 2016
The dilemmas of democracy in the Arab world
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina under the able directorship of Professor Ismail Serageldin and his efficient team arranged a conference 9-11 December 2015 on “Democracy for the 21st Century.” The point of departure of the conference was that democracy (...)

30 - 12 - 2015
Revisiting the Barcelona Process
The Union for the Mediterranean celebrated the 20th anniversary of the launch the Barcelona Process in November. The milestone calls for a look back both at the Barcelona Declaration and the Union of the Mediterranean, which emerged in 2007 as a (...)

09 - 12 - 2015
Mogherini's vision of Islam and the West
In the 8 July edition of Al-Ahram Weekly, I wrote about “a voice of wisdom from Europe.” The voice came from Federica Mogherini, the EU high representative, when she addressed on 24 June a conference in Brussels on “Islam in Europe.” At the (...)

10 - 11 - 2015
Russia in the Middle East
Regardless of the change in its ideology and political system, Russia's foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, is a continuation of Soviet policy, asserting Russia's role as a major power with strategic interests in the (...)

03 - 11 - 2015
Revisiting the Nobel Peace Prize
Two recent events related to the Nobel Peace Prize invited me to recall the procedures and rules used in granting this prize. The first was when Dr Mohamed Mukhtar Gomaa, minister of religious endowments, suggested nominating President Abdel-Fattah (...)

20 - 10 - 2015
Recalling the October War
Historians and scholars who have studied the 1973 October War in the Middle East know that Egypt prepared for this war in a difficult international environment. Egypt had to manoeuvre and prepare the international scene if it was to liberate and (...)

07 - 10 - 2015
NATO-Russia: A new arms race?
Russian intervention in Georgia in 2008 and the annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014 not only produced political tension and economic sanctions between Russia and the West, including the US and NATO. It also produced signs of an arms race (...)

30 - 09 - 2015
Egypt-China: Shared experiences
The expected visit of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi to China, the second within a year, invites historians and scholars to recall the two countries' relations and how they developed. They will conclude that the two countries developed their (...)

02 - 09 - 2015
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