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NATOSource

Jun 7, 2012

Russia accuses U.S. of encouraging Georgian revenge

By Reuters/Chicago Tribune

From Reuters/Chicago Tribune: Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of encouraging Georgia to seek revenge against Moscow for a 2008 war, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised new U.S. military support for Tbilisi.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2012

Former Iranian Negotiator Faults His Nation’s Nuclear Diplomacy

By Barbara Slavin

Iran undercut its own negotiators by withholding from them key details of its nuclear program, according to a new book by a former senior Iranian diplomat.

Iran

New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2012

Montenegro: Why We Must Keep the Door Open

By Julian Lindley-French

Graham Greene once wrote, “There is always one moment when the door opens and lets the future in.” Here in beautiful Budva the Adriatic laps gently on the beach below my balcony and then stretches away like a carpet of crushed opal with the sun leaping from shard to shard. I have just spent the […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2012

Anchoring the Alliance: A Path to Turkish Leadership in the Alliance

By R. Nicholas Burns Damon Wilson and Jeffrey Lightfoot

If NATO hopes to maintain a central role in shaping its strategic neighborhood, it will need Turkey to take on a position of leadership within the Alliance. Within the next decade, a Turkish Secretary General should lead the Alliance. But for that to happen Turkey will have to act like the responsible power it should […]

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Jun 7, 2012

Top News: Supreme Court Advisory Body Challenges Legality of Parliament while Upholding Shafik’s Candidacy

By Tarek Radwan

An Egyptian judicial body recommended on Wednesday that two crucial laws be overturned, allowing former President Hosni Mubarak’s prime minister to stand for election and possibly dissolving a parliament dominated by his Islamist foes.

MENASource

Jun 7, 2012

Egypt’s Run-off: The Same Old Power Struggle /جولة الإعادة: الصراع الجديد القديم على السلطة في مصر

By Haitham Tabei

Egypt’s run-off election scheduled for June 16-17 has pitted the Freedom and Justice Party’s candidate, Mohamed Morsi, against the former regime’s candidate-of-choice, Ahmed Shafik, in a fierce competition between the same two political forces that have dominated Egyptian politics for decades: The Muslim Brotherhood and the former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP). Now the historic […]

NATOSource

Jun 7, 2012

Karzai condemns NATO air strike

By Amir Shah and Heidi Vogt, the AP

From Amir Shah and Heidi Vogt, the AP:  The Afghan president said Thursday that 18 people killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday were all civilians.

NATOSource

Jun 6, 2012

Finnish PM challenges Russian general’s criticism of NATO-Finland relationship

By YLE

From YLE:  According to Finland’s Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, Finnish NATO membership would not threaten Russian security.

NATOSource

Jun 6, 2012

Russia on NATO BMD: ‘You Say Defense, We See Threat’

By Nikolai Korchunov, the New York Times

From Nikolai Korchunov, the New York Times:  Why do the NATO Strategic Concept and the recently completed Deterrence and Defense Posture Review both state that “the supreme guarantee of the security of the allies is provided by the strategic nuclear forces of the alliance”?

NATOSource

Jun 6, 2012

Shanghai Cooperation Organization seeks role in Afghanistan after NATO forces leave in 2014

By the AP

From the AP:  Central Asian states meeting in Beijing this week say they want a role in stabilizing Afghanistan after most U.S. combat troops leave at the end of 2014