America's first diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, first set sail for Paris in 1776 to secure French support for a rebellious colony. Since then the United States has deployed foreign service officers, or FSO's, around the world to represent our nation's interests.
This article describes the changing attitude of Libyans toward migrant laborers and warns of the effects of immigration on the developing security crisis in Libya.
This concluding volume of the MEI Viewpoints series on the Environment and the Middle East explores the scope and modalities for region-wide and international cooperation to address the environmental challenges facing the Middle East.
An analysis of Russian reactions to the Arab Awakening, detailing its foreign policies and interests in the context of continued dialogue and interaction with the West.
While scholars of the Middle East can only speculate which autocratic ruler will be the next to fall, the Middle East Institute opens its series on Revolution and Political Transformation by reexamining and placing into context the events of the Arab Spring.
The second volume of the three-part series, Revolution and Political Transformation, seeks to answer the question of why the popular protests of the Arab Spring are succeeding or failing by examining regime responses.