Recent Publications

• Iraq Ten Years On, editor and contributor, Chatham House Programme Report, May 2013
• 'The West's Alliance Against President Assad is Riddled with Contradictions', The Guardian, March 2013
• 'After the Spring: Prospects for the Arab World in 2013', UNA-UK, December 2012
• 'Reform: Round Two', Prospect, August 2012
• Strategic Posture Review: Algeria, World Politics Review, July 2012
• 'The Changing Role of Civil Society in the Euro-Mediterranean Area', in Change and Opportunities in the Emerging Mediterranean, Edited by Stephen Calleya and Monika Wohlfeld, 2012
• 'Time to Build Bridges over the Mediterreanean', with Robin Niblett, The World Today, February/March 2012
• Morocco's November 2011 Elections: Enough to Ensure a Political Transition?, EuroMeSCo Brief, December 2011
• 'You've Ousted an Arab Autocrat. Now What?', Financial Times, July 2011
• 'A Stark Lesson for Ageing Arab Autocrats', Financial Times, January 2011
• 'From Madrid to Camp David: Europe, the US, and the Middle East Peace Process in the 1990s', Patrick Müller and Claire Spencer in European-American Relations and the Middle East: From Suez to Iraq (Eds Victor Mauer & Daniel Möckli, CSS Studies in Security and International Relations, Routledge 2011
• 'More autonomy for private enterprise is the key to solving the Maghreb's economic problems' in Europe's World, November 2010
• 'Europe, the Middle East & Asia' in Asia's Role in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean (ed Geoffrey Kemp & Indre Uselmann) Nixon Center, Washington DC, September 2010
• 'The Middle East in Transition: Costly Muddle', The World Today, August 2010
• 'The Middle East: Changing from External Arbiter to Regional Player', in R Niblett (ed) America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership, Wiley-Blackwell/Chatham House, 2010
• 'La Situazione Politica del Nord Africa Vista da Londra', Medidea Review, October 2009
• 'Introduction: North Africa and Britain', International Affairs, 85.5, September 2009 (guest-editor)
• New Challenges for EU-Israel Relations after the Gaza War, IEPN paper, April 2009
• North Africa: The Hidden Risks to Regional Stability, Chatham House Briefing Paper, April 2009
• 'Middle East and the United States: Cause and Effect', The World Today, February 2009
• North Africa: New Challenges, Old Regimes, and Regional Security, International Peace Institute Working Paper, November 2008
• 'Europe and the Mediterranean: Eyeing Other Shores', The World Today, June 2008
• 'Algeria: Tired of Waiting', The World Today, January 2008
• 'There is No Ignoring the New Middle East State System' in The Daily Star (Lebanon), 13 March 2007
• 'Towards a Genuinely New Middle East?', Bitter Lemons International, Edition 10, Volume 5, 8 March 2007
• (With Norman Dombey) 'Whether or Not They've Been Looking for a Pretext to Bomb Iran, They've Found One', Independent on Sunday, 4 February 2007
• 'British Policy - Middle East and Terrorism: Talk Long, Reflect Little', The World Today, December 2006
• Iran, its Neighbours and the Regional Crises, Chatham House Report, August 2006 (co-edited with Robert Lowe)
• 'Palestine: Dead on the Beach', The World Today, July 2006
• 'The Middle East: Voting, But for What?', The World Today, December 2005
• 'Europe - Asylum and Migration: Limiting the Flow', The World Today, February 2005
• 'Battles for Democracy: the North African Connection', The World Today, November 2003
• 'The Maghreb: Juggling International and Local Opinion' in Strategic Survey 2002/3 May (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London)
• 'Algeria and Terrorism - A Complex Web' in Strategic Comments, Vol. 9, Issue 3, (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London)