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Egyptian Unrest: Dynasty, Devolution, or Revolution?

New Atlanticist
Mar 6, 2025

How European leaders are responding to Trump’s approach to Ukraine and Europe

From London and Berlin to Paris and Brussels, European leaders have taken several notable steps this week on security. This follows the blow-up between the Ukrainian and US presidents on February 28.

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Egyptian Unrest: Dynasty, Devolution, or Revolution?

New Atlanticist
Feb 26, 2025

Why the US should not lift sanctions against Russia

By
Charles Lichfield

Sanctions are having an unmistakable effect, albeit below the inflated expectations of many in the West in early 2022. Lifting them now would be a mistake.

Conflict
Economic Sanctions

Egyptian Unrest: Dynasty, Devolution, or Revolution?

New Atlanticist
Mar 5, 2025

The Egyptian plan for postwar Gaza is a good starting point—but it needs changes

By
Thomas S. Warrick

While many obstacles remain, the Egyptian proposal could form the starting point for negotiations over a workable plan for postwar Gaza.

Conflict
Crisis Management

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New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2011

Egyptian Unrest: Dynasty, Devolution, or Revolution?

By Harlan Ullman

Is what is happening in Egypt today, and Tunisia earlier, the harbinger of viral unrest with consequences akin to the French Revolution of 1789 or the Russian Revolution of 1917 but in real time? Or, is this unrest a localized protest over the continuing absence of jobs, food and political inclusion that so far lacks […]

New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2011

Egypt 2.0

By Andrew Kessinger

The last few weeks have proven the old adage that one spark can kindle a great fire. Starting in Tunisia, where a twenty-six year-old lit himself on fire to protest rising prices and unemployment in the face of a callous and corrupt regime, the winds of discontent have spread the flame of protest across the […]

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New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2011

Atlantic Update 2/2/11

By Jason Harmala

Russia and Ireland in a row over a diplomatic dismissal and forged passports, and Germany proposes scaling back its anti-terror measures.

New Atlanticist

Feb 1, 2011

Egypt Crisis: A View From Europe

By Ioan Mircea Pascu

My experience during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 taught me that no one can control the unfolding of events once a revolution has started. The possibilities for its deflection or losing control over it are practically endless. Therefore, no one can credibly predict how revolutions end. The fundamental element during such a situation is to […]

Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Feb 1, 2011

Atlantic Update 2/1/11

By Jason Harmala

European leaders react to the Egypt crisis, and the Irish Prime Minister dissolves the government to set an election date.

New Atlanticist

Feb 1, 2011

Iran Cracks Down While Egypt Cracks Up

By Barbara Slavin

While the world’s attention has been riveted by Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt this month, Iran’s government has taken the opportunity to execute a record number of prisoners in an apparent bid to head off the return of the dramatic street protests that pushed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government to the brink in June 2009. […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 31, 2011

Egypt, Values, and Geostrategy

By James Joyner

A group of academics have issued an open letter to President Obama calling on him to "approach Egypt through a framework of shared values and hopes, not the prism of geostrategy." It is also clear to us that if you seek, as you said Friday "political, social, and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the Egyptian […]

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New Atlanticist

Jan 31, 2011

Atlantic Update 1/31/11

By Jason Harmala

With Egypt dominating most of the world’s headlines, European headlines include developments in Belarus, news of a 2.4% inflation increase in the Eurozone, and Hungary’s new willingness to discuss its controversial media law.

New Atlanticist

Jan 31, 2011

Turkey’s Dynamic Resurgence in the New Global Era

By Zeynep Dereli and Jean-Pierre Lehmann

In a recent article in Newsweek, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan branded the EU “geriatric” and “comatose.” This reflects not only Ankara’s frustrations with the EU accession process, but also the global transformations of the early 21st century.

New Atlanticist

Jan 31, 2011

Egypt Needs Reform, Not Revolution

By George Grant and Alexandros Petersen

The mounting pro-democracy protests in Egypt against the 30-year tyranny of Hosni Mubarak are an encouraging development in the wake of Tunisia’s ousting of its own long-time autocrat, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, earlier this month. It is tempting, indeed altogether proper, to hope for “people power” changes of governance across the autocratic Arab world. […]

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