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New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2014

Technology Policy in an Age of Unknowledge

By Peter Haynes

Technology evolves so quickly that government regulations are outdated from the day they are written. Policymakers should consider the thirty-year-old insights of an obscure British economist for a map to the new approach we need to regulating technologies.  We are moving rapidly into the age of the “Internet of Everything” (IoE), in which tens of billions […]

MENASource

Jan 6, 2014

Top News: Egypt Summons Qatari Envoy after Criticisms of Crackdown

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s foreign ministry summoned Qatar’s ambassador on Saturday to complain about interference in its internal affairs after Doha criticized Cairo’s crackdown on the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. 

MENASource

Jan 6, 2014

Richard LeBaron on Opportunities for the Gulf in Egypt

By EgyptSource

Writing for MENASource, Richard LeBaron, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, highlights the opportunities available to the Gulf countries, namely Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, to redefine their role in the Middle East, particularly when it comes to addressing the question of Egypt’s faltering economy. 

International Organizations North Africa

MENASource

Jan 6, 2014

EconSource Headlines- January 6, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Jan 6, 2014

Gulf Leadership Needed in Egypt, Not Just Cash

By Richard LeBaron

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates have been generous donors to Egypt over the last year, supporting the military efforts to neutralize the Muslim Brotherhood and allowing the Egyptian economy to limp along.

International Organizations North Africa

FutureSource

Jan 6, 2014

Technology Policy in an Age of Unknowledge

By Peter Haynes

Technology evolves so quickly that government regulations are outdated from the day they are written. Policymakers should consider the thirty-year-old insights of an obscure British economist for a map to the new approach we need to regulating technologies.

New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2014

Saving South Sudan

By J. Peter Pham

The new year opens with the very real possibility that the world’s youngest country, South Sudan, may fail at statehood without ever having acquired more than its pro forma trappings: a flag, an anthem, and a seat at the United Nations. The government and rebel forces continued to fight over the weekend and failed to […]

Africa East Africa
EU Defense Summit, December 19, 2013

NATOSource

Jan 3, 2014

Europe Must be Prepared to Spend on Defense

By Ivo Daalder, Financial Times

Over the past decade, European countries have become increasingly involved in military operation

Europe & Eurasia NATO
F-16C Falcon from the Turkish Air Force

NATOSource

Jan 3, 2014

Turkey Increases Defense Spending

By Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News

Turkey’s parliament has approved a 6.71 percent increase in the country’s defense budget, according to budget figures released after a debate.

Turkey
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, June 6, 2012

NATOSource

Jan 3, 2014

China and Russia Bring Back Cold War Tactics

By Anne Applebaum, Washington Post

We in the United States may not believe that there is any real threat to our longtime alliance structures in Europe and Asia, but other people think those alliances are vulnerable and have set out to undermine them.

China NATO