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MENASource

Jan 24, 2012

From King to Spring: Parallels Between the Civil Rights Movement and Egypt’s Revolution

By Khaled Beydoun

It is a striking coincidence that the first anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution – which unseated longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak – will take place only days after the United States commemorates civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr.

MENASource

Jan 24, 2012

The Emergency Law Revisited

By Tarek Radwan

Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi announced today on Egyptian state television the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ (SCAF) decision to lift the state of emergency, to take effect on the anniversary of the January 25 revolution, “except in cases involving thuggery.”

New Atlanticist

Jan 24, 2012

Precursor to Pakistani Coup?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

The prime minister stood before the Supreme Court and explained that “while he accepted the majesty of the law and the majesty of the supreme court,” he couldn’t arrest the president of the country on charges of bribery as he enjoys “immunity under the constitution.” Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani had answered the […]

Pakistan

NATOSource

Jan 24, 2012

The End of the U.S-Turkey Alliance?

By Ted Galen Carpenter, the National Interest

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jan 24, 2012

Deal or no Deal: Is Egypt Headed Towards a Power Sharing Agreement Between the SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood?

By Dina Shehata

The final results of the People’s Assembly elections have been formally announced, confirming that Islamists now enjoy an overwhelming majority in the first freely elected parliament in Egypt since the 1952 revolution.

New Atlanticist

Jan 24, 2012

Civil Disobedience in Cyberspace: A Tale of Two Online Protests

By Jason Healey

Cyberspace brings us ever-changing technologies and resulting social norms, some of which are often in tension with more traditional conventions. Nowhere is this tension more apparent than between intellectual property rights and free sharing of information online. Two recent online protests – one criminal and largely a failure, the other legal and successful – illustrate the […]

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MENASource

Jan 24, 2012

Egypt’s Revolution at an Inflection Point

By Michele Dunne

New Atlanticist

Jan 23, 2012

What to do about Iran

By R. Nicholas Burns

What to do about an increasingly truculent and threatening Iran is now the most important foreign policy challenge of 2012.

Iran

FutureSource

Jan 23, 2012

In Search of Sand Piles and Butterflies

By Banning Garrett

“Disruptive change” that produces “strategic shocks” has become an increasing concern for policymakers, shaken by momentous events of the last couple of decades that were not on their radar screens – from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the 2008 financial crisis and the “Arab Spring.”

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2012

NATO ambassador previews Chicago summit

By Paisley Dodds, the AP

From Paisley Dodds, the AP:  The U.S. Ambassador to NATO said Monday one of the key goals of an upcoming summit is to ensure the alliance is prepared for new threats – comments that came as Iran threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz in response to an EU oil blockage.

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