Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 05/2011

Traveling toward the Rule of Law in the Middle East and North Africa: Avenues and Obstacles

Colette Rausch, Jason Gluck, Vivienne O'Connor, Scott Worden

April 2011

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

This brief was written by the director of USIP's Rule of Law Center of Innovation and three of the center's senior advisers: Colette Rausch, Jason Gluck, Vivienne O'Connor and Scott Worden. The authors' analysis is informed by their knowledge of the Middle East and North Africa and their firsthand experiences in promoting the rule of law in transitional states such as Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo and Nepal.