Atlantic Council blogs

Graffiti that Cannot Be Erased: Sectarianism Lives On

By Mai El-Sadany

Since the ousting of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the political standstill that has followed, both international and local news media dedicated countless hours and resources to analyses of whether the ousting was a coup, documentations of sit-ins and demonstrations, and interviews with political leaders and observers. While there is no doubt that the political […]

Top News: Egypt New Governors Sworn in Before Interim President

By EgyptSource

Twenty-five governors took the oath of office before Egyptian interim President Adly Mansour on Tuesday. The Red Sea and Mounifeya governors are not named yet. The post-Morsi regime reshuffling involved the appointment of twenty new governors and nine new deputy-governors, leaving seven in their positions from the previous government.

What Will it Take to Get Egypt’s Economy on the Right Path?

By Hoda Selim

More than two and a half years after the 2011 popular uprising, Egypt’s double transition, political and economic, remains complex. As the political uncertainty remains fluid and continues to unfold, the economy suffers. The time to act is now as economic challenges are a moving target. The new government must immediately develop a home-grown coherent […]

Baltic States Divided On Merging Armed Forces

By Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News

While budget cuts are jeopardizing acquisitions of new arms and equipment across Europe, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are intensifying their military cooperation in line with NATO’s “Smart Defense” policy and collaborating on joint arms purchases.

In the Shadow of Forster’s Room

By Peter Haynes

What might the world look like a century from now? This is not an idle question: if we were able to forecast the ultra-long-term future with at least some degree of accuracy, our approach to policymaking would be very different. For example, if we consider federally funded R&D since World War II, much of it […]

What Yemen Needs From Washington

By Danya Greenfield

Yemen’s President Abd Rabbo Hadi Mansour is scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama today, culminating three days of intensive meetings in Washington, DC, with cabinet secretaries from the treasury, state, and defense departments.

Is China Doomed?

By Rajan Menon

Between 1978, the year Deng Xiaoping’s sweeping economic reforms were launched, and 2011, China’s GDP increased by an average of 10 percent annually, three times that of the global economy. Now the boom times may be over.

An Updated Roundup of Detained Islamists and Brotherhood Members

In the wake of former President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster, Al-Ahram reported that security services were working to arrest approximately 300 members of the Muslim Brotherhood across the country. While the names of the 300 members have not been released, news has emerged on an almost-daily basis with names of Brotherhood members and prominent Islamists who […]