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ElBaradei insistently describes the United States and other great powers as more the problem than the solution. In a “new era

it is not very adept or courageous when it comes to sensitive political matters and national prerogatives. Take

he significantly upgraded the agency’s inspection capabilities

the United Nations nuclear watchdog and inspection arm

2011 -- The Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei has stated his intention to “nominate myself” to be president of Egypt

as it did other Arab autocrats. He has had to wrench his attention away from the perils and excitements of foreign policy to urgent challenges at home. To devise and implement far-reaching domestic reforms

then faced the greater ordeal of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the long occupation that followed. Had the United States been successful in Iraq

sanctions and threat of military attack because of its nuclear programme

Syria established a partnership in 1979 with the newborn Islamic Republic of Iran. And once Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 in a bid to expel Syrian influence

but he also bequeathed to him an autocratic system based on an all-powerful centralising presidency

Bashar may already have lost authority to men like his brother

Bashar al-Assad had little or nothing of the menacing pose of a traditional Arab dictator. His manner was modest and

but which is no longer appropriate to the modern age

this analysis has proved wrong. As if caught unawares

the authorities then made what may prove to be a fatal mistake. In a move that looked like panic

a southern city on the border with Jordan

with a Jewish minority permanently ruling a Palestinian majority

he spent a great deal of time jousting with Israel and did virtually nothing to either highlight or deal with the conclusions of the 2002 U.N. Arab Human Development Report — produced by a group of Arab scholars led by an Egyptian — that sa...

the outgoing head of the Arab League and the front-runner in polls to succeed Mubarak as president when Egypt holds elections in November

2011 -- If you look into the different “shop” windows across the Middle East