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SyriaSource

Aug 7, 2017

Thinking About Strategy: Part Four

By Frederic C. Hof

This fourth and final part of a series on American objectives and strategy for Syria aims to suggest parameters of a strategy to achieve the following objective (from part three): We seek a Syria that poses no national security threats to the United States, its allies, and its friends; a country pacified enough to permit […]

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Trade in Action

Aug 3, 2017

TRADE in ACTION – August 3, 2017

By Global Business & Economics Program

THIS WEEK IN TRADE A number of high profile trade deal reports were released this week.

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

SyriaSource

Aug 3, 2017

Thinking About Strategy: Part Three

By Frederic C. Hof

Parts one and two of this series discussed the difficulties of officials thinking strategically about Syria, given the policy catastrophe bequeathed to the Trump administration by its predecessor. It then offered a list of outcomes the United States might nevertheless try to achieve. Although seeking nothing is an option, American disengagement would be a roll […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 3, 2017

Pakistan’s Reform Moment

By Nadeem Ul Haque

Pakistan is once again in the news with the dismissal of its prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, by the supreme court over a corruption case. This development is not unusual in a country with a history of democratically-elected governments being hobbled by incompetence and corruption. Pakistan has also seen three military coups and has been under […]

Pakistan

MENASource

Aug 3, 2017

A Constitution That Doesn’t Protect Rights and Freedoms: Libya Writes Its Constitution

By Ragab Saad

On July 29, forty-three members among a sixty-member Constituent Assembly in Libya, voted in support of the Libyan constitution draft. This voting has concluded a long and complicated process of debate that has been continued for more than three years to write a constitution that has the support of a two-thirds plus one majority among […]

Libya

UkraineAlert

Aug 3, 2017

Germany’s Key Role in Fighting Kremlin Subversion in Europe

By Jakub Janda and Veronika Víchová

What does the German government plan to do about the Kremlin’s creeping disinformation operations? Germany became interested in Russia’s subversive disinformation campaign only recently, particularly after the infamous “Lisa case” in 2016. The German government has started to implement some new security measures, especially in the area of cybersecurity. Russian interference in Germany’s September elections […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 2, 2017

International Effort Needed to Address Crisis in Venezuela

By Kelly Russo

 While US sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro present a smart, targeted response, a coordinated international approach is necessary to address the political and humanitarian crises in Venezuela, according to two Atlantic Council analysts. “The United States can’t go it alone,” said Jason Marczak, director of the Latin America Economic Growth Initiative in the Atlantic […]

Venezuela

SyriaSource

Aug 2, 2017

Who Will Take Deir Ezzor from ISIS?

By Abdullah Almousa

Observers are focusing increasing attention on the coming battle for Deir Ezzor, which will come next after the battle for Raqqa, the latter having been launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces on June 6, 2017.

New Atlanticist

Aug 1, 2017

Will the Trump Administration Address the GCC-North Korea Nexus?

By Giorgio Cafiero and Theodore Karasik

Several recent articles on North Korea’s relationship with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have drawn this Northeast Asian country into an ongoing crisis within the bloc. From Washington’s perspective, GCC-North Korea relations threaten to undermine US efforts to isolate Pyongyang and squeeze it economically in response to its belligerent behavior marked by the recent […]

International Organizations Korea

SyriaSource

Aug 1, 2017

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham: The Fatwas that Ignited a War for Money

By Saleem al-Omar

In an audio recording, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s cleric, Abu al-Yaqzan al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Naji, a former member of the Salafist al-Nour Party in Egypt according to Arabi 21, issued a fatwa on the need to fight his former faction, Ahrar al-Sham. He further urged Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fighters to kill anyone who […]

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