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MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Top News: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and UAE Recall Ambassadors to Qatar

By MENASource

Citing what they view as Qatar’s failure to abide by an agreement not to interfere in the internal affairs of other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE have recalled their ambassadors to the country.

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Top News: NCHR Says Pro-Morsi Supporters Initiated Violence in Raba’a Dispersal

By EgyptSource

The National Council for Human Rights, Egypt’s state-run rights watchdog, announced the results on Wednesday of its long-awaited report on last August’s bloody dispersal of a main protest camp in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.    

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Syria and Ukraine: Cause and Effect?

By Frederic C. Hof

In 1961, a young US president with an active, inquisitive, open, and skeptical mind learned the hard way that the world can be cruel; that behavior regarded in polite society as restrained, rational, and reasonable can be processed by the bullies of the world as weakness to be exploited.

Syria Ukraine

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

What Ukraine Means For Syria

By Edward P. Joseph

As outrageous and unsettling as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is, the fact remains that the real killing continues to take place in another area of Russian interest: Syria. Indeed, more than a quarter of the 136,000 Syrians killed in the war have died over the past five months alone.

Syria Ukraine

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 5, 2014

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments in the Arab transition countries. 

Trade in Action

Mar 5, 2014

What We’re Reading: March 4

By Global Business

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

New Atlanticist

Mar 5, 2014

Judy Asks: Will Putin Finally Wake Up Europe?

By Judy Dempsey

Every week a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey, nonresident senior associate at Carnegie Europe and editor-on-chief of Strategic Europe, on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. This week the roster of experts included the Council’s Ian Brzezinski and Damon Wilson.

Ukraine
NATO's Steadfast Jazz 2013 Exercise

NATOSource

Mar 4, 2014

Brzezinski: NATO Should Prepare to Help Defend Ukraine

By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Washington Post

Much depends on how clearly the West conveys to the dictator in the Kremlin — a partially comical imitation of Mussolini and a more menacing reminder of Hitler — that NATO cannot be passive if war erupts in Europe

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

Mar 4, 2014

The Face of Egypt’s Educational Flaws

By Jayson Casper

Education in Egypt has long been criticized, a fact recognized by the authors of the new constitution. Articles 19, 21, and 23 oblige the government to spend four percent of its gross national product on public education, two percent on higher education, and one percent on scientific research. These targets must be met, according to […]

North Africa
Turkish F-16 jet

NATOSource

Mar 4, 2014

Turkey Scrambles Jets After Russian Plane Flies Near its Black Sea Coast

By Reuters and Anadolu Agency

From Reuters:  The Turkish Air Force scrambled eight F-16 fighter jets after a Russian surveillance plane flew parallel along its Black Sea coast

Intelligence NATO