Guests Khaled Elgindy, Natan Sachs, and Sarah Yerkes discuss the opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem, protests in Gaza, and the international reaction. They also explore the impact on US-European relationship and the origins of the Gaza protests. The podcast touches upon personal data privacy and provides recommendations on protecting personal information online.

Sarah Yerkes, a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, and Sabina Henneberg, a Soref Fellow at the Washington Institute, dive into the troubling state of democracy in Tunisia. They discuss the recent elections where President Kais Saied claimed a staggering 91% of the vote amidst widespread skepticism. The duo highlights the erosion of civil liberties, the fractured political landscape, and the chilling consequences for democratic institutions. They also analyze the U.S. response and Tunisia's geopolitical shifts, painting a grim picture for the country's future.

The country of Tunisia is in the midst of a slow motion political crisis. The country's populist president has crafted a new constitution that gives him broad, unchecked powers and secured its approval by referendum, albeit a referendum in which most Tunisians did not participate. What's not clear is whether other factions will acquiesce to his exceptional actions, and whether those actions will prove to be the antidote for corruption that he has promised or the nail in the coffin for what had been the Arab Spring's last surviving democracy. To discuss these developments and what they might mean, Scott R. Anderson sat down with Sarah Yerkes, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program, and Sharan Grewal, an assistant professor of government at the College of William and Mary and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. They discussed where the new constitution came from, what it may mean in practice, and how it will impact Tunisia and the broader region's future.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.