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As the MENA region continues to be the epicenter of news headlines, the Atlantic Council’s MENASource is a hub for thought-provoking and hard-hitting analyses about the latest trends, ideas, and debates. This online publication provides fast reactions and in-depth commentary on breaking news and key regional topics by a diverse team of experts and contributors.

MENASource brings you up-close to a region at the epicenter of geo-political headlines. It is the Atlantic Council’s hub for in-depth commentary about breaking news, key topics, and trends from our team of experts on the Middle East and North Africa.

The views expressed in MENASource are solely those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the Atlantic Council, its staff, or its supporters.

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EconSource Headlines- March 6, 2014

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Mar 26, 2026

As Iran attacks, the US should provide air defense for Iraqi Kurdistan

Washington faces a choice: Continue to defer to Baghdad’s procedural objections while Iran conducts unimpeded strikes on Kurdish territory or acknowledge the strategic reality and take decisive action.

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EconSource Headlines- March 6, 2014

MENASource
Mar 17, 2026

A crisis in Egypt could be a warning sign for the global economy 

By
Khalid Azim

Market watchers should keep an eye on Egypt as an oil shock could cause financial turmoil.

Economy & Business
International Financial Institutions

EconSource Headlines- March 6, 2014

MENASource
Mar 11, 2026

Three lessons from Libya for the war in Iran

By
Frank Talbot

Any outside power using force to attain a political outcome must define the end state it seeks, align coalition partners around a shared strategy, and establish credible escalation controls.

Conflict
Iran

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Mar 6, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 6, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Mar 6, 2014

How Syria’s Micro Shapes the Macro

By MENASource

Complex emergencies in drawn out conflicts, as is the case in Syria, are just that: complex. When dealing with multiple power players, armed groups, demolished infrastructure, refugees and the internally displaced, and an overall humanitarian disaster, the variables can paralyze the steeliest of policy makers. It becomes that much more important to focus in on […]

Syria

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Syria’s Neglected Refugee Crisis Presents Opportunity To Revitalize US Policy

By J. Trevor Ulbrick

President Barack Obama’s Syria policy is in the doldrums. Adrift in a sea of sectarian conflict and buffeted by savvier global and regional players, US policy has never seemed more rudderless. With a second round of peace talks in Geneva ending without “even agreement on how to negotiate,” President Obama has asked his top aides […]

Syria

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Constitution-Making in Libya: What Lessons From Tunisia?

By Geoffrey Weichselbaum and Duncan Pickard

The constitution adopted in Tunisia at the end of January represents the region’s best chance at achieving an elusive goal: sustainable democracy based on the rule of law. Next door, Libya two weeks ago elected a Constitutional Assembly to attempt the same.

Syria

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Top News: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and UAE Recall Ambassadors to Qatar

By MENASource

Citing what they view as Qatar’s failure to abide by an agreement not to interfere in the internal affairs of other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE have recalled their ambassadors to the country.

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Top News: NCHR Says Pro-Morsi Supporters Initiated Violence in Raba’a Dispersal

By EgyptSource

The National Council for Human Rights, Egypt’s state-run rights watchdog, announced the results on Wednesday of its long-awaited report on last August’s bloody dispersal of a main protest camp in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.    

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Syria and Ukraine: Cause and Effect?

By Frederic C. Hof

In 1961, a young US president with an active, inquisitive, open, and skeptical mind learned the hard way that the world can be cruel; that behavior regarded in polite society as restrained, rational, and reasonable can be processed by the bullies of the world as weakness to be exploited.

Syria Ukraine

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

What Ukraine Means For Syria

By Edward P. Joseph

As outrageous and unsettling as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is, the fact remains that the real killing continues to take place in another area of Russian interest: Syria. Indeed, more than a quarter of the 136,000 Syrians killed in the war have died over the past five months alone.

Syria Ukraine

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 5, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Mar 4, 2014

The Face of Egypt’s Educational Flaws

By Jayson Casper

Education in Egypt has long been criticized, a fact recognized by the authors of the new constitution. Articles 19, 21, and 23 oblige the government to spend four percent of its gross national product on public education, two percent on higher education, and one percent on scientific research. These targets must be met, according to […]

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