Some Weekend Diversions

A few end-of-the week referrals:

• Christopher Boucek has a new paper for the Carnegie Endowment, Yemen: Avoiding a Downward Spiral. The linked page has the summary and conclusions and links to the full .pdfs in English or Arabic.

• Thomas Hegghammer at Jihadica is going to be taking a bit of a leave until spring, which would be bad news for the jihadi tracking community except that his first guest blogger is my friend Jean-Pierre Filiu from Sciences-Po in Paris. The blog will be in good hands. Both Hegghammer and Filiu come out of Gilles Kepel's shop in Paris.

• Also from Carnegie is the September issue of the Arab Reform Bulletin, always a valuable source for democracy issues and the like. Homepage with links to individual articles is here, in English; or here, in Arabic. Full text in .pdf in English here; or in Arabic here.
  

• Podcast from MEI: Maajid Nawaz on How to Counter Radical Islam in Pakistan. (Podcast starts when you click on the link.)