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Trade in Action

May 8, 2014

TTIP Action: May 6

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

May 8, 2014

MENASource Discussions: Libya Under the Microscope

By MENASource

A new Atlantic Council report examines the threats to Libya’s stability, provides a detailed mapping of the militia landscape, and details policy options for the Libyan government and its international partners. In Libya’s Faustian Bargains: Breaking the Appeasement Cycle, the authors attribute the cycle of violence, intractable political stalemate, and weakened economy to the Libyan authorities’ […]

Libya

MENASource

May 8, 2014

Top News: Bahraini Shia Youth Risk Radicalization as Political Talks Stall

By MENASource

Scenes of masked men marching with petrol bombs and denouncing Bahrain’s king, broadcast in online videos in recent months, might once have been dismissed as a cry for attention by groups from Bahrain’s majority Shia community seeking to shore up a flagging cause for democratic reform.

MENASource

May 8, 2014

Top News: Sabbahi Vows to Continue Brotherhood Ban; Reject US Assistance

By EgyptSource

Hamdeen Sabbahi vowed to maintain the ban on the Muslim Brotherhood if he is elected president.

US F-15 Eagle tracking Russian Tu-95 Bear Bomber near coast of Alaska, Sept. 28, 2008

NATOSource

May 8, 2014

US General: Russia Flying Sorties Near California, Linked to Ukraine Crisis

By David Brunnstrom, Reuters

The head of U.S. air forces in the Pacific said on Monday that Russia’s intervention in Ukraine had been accompanied by a significant increase in Russian air activity in the Asia-Pacific region in a show of strength and to gather intelligence.

Russia Ukraine

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2014

Where’s the US on Ukraine?

By R. Nicholas Burns

Vladimir Putin’s campaign to divide, destabilize, and dismantle Ukraine has reached a new phase with this week’s surge of violence in the pivotal Black Sea port of Odessa. As bands of armed ethnic Russian brigands battle Ukrainian government security forces in cities big and small throughout eastern Ukraine, the stakes for the West become all […]

Ukraine
REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2014

Russian Human Rights Activists Challenge Putin on Crimea Seizure

By James Rupert

A Mathematics Professor Leads Dissenters Current and former official human rights advisors to President Vladimir Putin have issued a report that undermines his claim to have legitimately annexed Crimea – and they caused a stir this week by posting it on a Kremlin website. Three activists, including one current and one former member of the […]

Russia Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, May 8, 2014

NATOSource

May 8, 2014

NATO Sees No Sign of Russian Troop Pullback from Ukraine Border

By AFP

NATO said Thursday it had yet to see “any indications” that Russia has withdrawn its troops from the Ukraine border, a day after President Vladimir Putin claimed to have done so.

NATO Russia
HMS Dragon exercising in the English Channel, August 30, 2011

NATOSource

May 8, 2014

UK Deploys a Destroyer to Track Russian Aircraft Carrier Near Coastal Waters

By Andrew Osborn, Reuters

Britain said on Thursday it had deployed a destroyer to track a Russian aircraft carrier sailing close to its coastal waters, the latest in a series of such incidents and a reminder of underlying tensions between London and Moscow.

Russia United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2014

Jarba, Syrian Opposition Council Pushes for US Support

By Barbara Slavin

On his first visit to Washington this week, Ahmad Jarba, president of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC), has faced a daunting challenge: convincing the Obama administration that his organization deserves more support, including lethal weaponry, to counteract the brutal tactics of a regime that appears to be winning Syria’s three-year-old civil war.

Syria