Atlantic Council blogs

NATO AWACS helping protect Euro 2012 Tournament

By NATO

From NATO:  Not many people would immediately associate NATO with the Euro 2012 Football Championship. But NATO’s "Eye in the Sky", the AWACS (Airborne Warning & Control System) will be playing an important role in the security of the European teams’ competition over the next three weeks.

Egypt: To Have or Not to Have an IMF Program?

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

Over this past weekend Egypt held presidential election runoffs with official results due on Thursday, June 21. But with more than 95 percent of votes counted, the Muslim Brotherhood claims their candidate Mohamed Morsy is the winner.  In the meanwhile, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) issued a constitutional annex to its March […]

NATO Ties Bind as Greece Fights for Solutions to Remain in Euro

By Gregory Viscusi, Businessweek

From Gregory Viscusi, Businessweek:  While Greece struggles to stay in the euro, its membership in NATO is another story altogether.

Egypt’s State of Emergency Lives on Despite Law’s Expiration

By Salem Mostafa Kamel

The SCAF’s decision to issue a new Constitutional Declaration on June 17 confirms what human rights activists have suspected all along: The SCAF scored political points by allowing the Emergency Law to expire as scheduled on May 31, but has since been covertly building a legal foundation to justify martial law and subject citizens to […]

Saudi Minister visits NATO HQ

By NATO

SCAF Declaration Turns “Soft Coup” Into Hard Reality

By Ahmed Morsy

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has issued an addendum to the March 2011 Constitutional Declaration that human rights activists fear will institutionalize military dictatorship in Egypt. The SCAF’s decision to issue amendments to several articles on the eve of the announcement of the official presidential results was strategically timed to avoid accusations of […]

China Should Intervene in Syria, Not U.S.

By Niall Ferguson, Newsweek

From Niall Ferguson, Newsweek:  [W]hy should it be the United States that once again attempts to play the part of global cop?

US Offers Familiar Carrot For Iran Nuclear Compromise

By Barbara Slavin

Spare parts have been a perennial US offer to induce Iran to change its ways — or to reward it for positive steps — and were almost provided 20 years ago near the end of the George H.W. Bush administration, Al-Monitor has learned.

Britain Relying More on UAVs

By Nick Hopkins, the Guardian

From Nick Hopkins, the Guardian:  The British military is increasingly relying on unmanned drones to wage war against the Taliban, and has fired more than 280 laser-guided Hellfire missiles and bombs at suspected insurgents, new figures reveal.