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Finnish Army helicopter, August 7, 2010

NATOSource

Jul 30, 2015

Minister Niinistö: Finland Needs to Rethink its Defense of Åland Islands

By Estonian Public Broadcasting and YLE

From Estonian Public Broadcasting:  Finnish Defense Minister Jussi Niinistö has disclosed that Finland is planning to test its defenses of Åland Islands from “little green men.”

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

Jul 30, 2015

Five Issues That Should Be Discussed at the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue

By Amy Hawthorne

The main purpose of the August 2 US-Egypt strategic dialogue in Cairo seems to be to demonstrate that the two countries are settling back into more normal ties after two difficult years.

North Africa
Estonian soldier participating in NATO's Steadfast Javelin Exercise, May 11, 2015

NATOSource

Jul 30, 2015

Gaps in NATO Hybrid Defense

By Mark Galeotti, War on the Rocks

[In hybrid warfare,] soldiers are often the last, not the first into the breach, only appearing once the war has been all but won through political and economic subversion, division, and demoralization.

European Union Intelligence

New Atlanticist

Jul 30, 2015

Senators Make Case for Lifting Crude Oil Ban

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council report sees America’s energy abundance as an invaluable diplomatic tool A top Republican Senator, making the case that energy must be a significant tool in the US diplomatic toolkit, said July 30 that the United States will be “effectively sanctioning” domestic oil producers if it does not lift its ban on the export […]

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment
RAF Typhoons Intercept Russian Jets, July 24, 2015

NATOSource

Jul 30, 2015

British Fighters Intercept Ten Russian Military Aircraft in One Mission

By Royal Air Force and Telegraph

From Royal Air Force:  On Friday 24th July as part of NATO’s ongoing mission to police Baltic airspace, RAF Typhoons intercepted 10 Russian aircraft during a single Baltic Air Patrol, Quick Reaction Alert mission:

NATO Russia

MENASource

Jul 30, 2015

Top News: US-backed Syrian Rebel Group Says Nusra Front Abducted its Leader

By MENASource

The US-backed “Division 30” Syrian rebel group released a statement Wednesday accusing the Nusra Front of abducting its leader Nadim al-Hassan and a number of his companions in northern Aleppo, urging the group to release them. The men were reportedly abducted Tuesday night when returning from a meeting in Azaz to coordinate efforts with other […]

MENASource

Jul 30, 2015

EconSource: Syrian PM Says Power Crisis Worsens as Militants Target Plants

By EconSource

Electricity is being rationed more in government controlled areas in Syria after an escalation in attacks on power plants by Islamist militants.

MENASource

Jul 30, 2015

Top News: US to Deliver Eight F-16 Aircraft to Egypt

By EgyptSource

The United States will deliver eight F-16 Block 52 aircraft to Egypt within the next two days, the US embassy in Cairo said in a statement on Thursday, part of a military package that had been unfrozen earlier this year.

UkraineAlert

Jul 30, 2015

Euromaidan’s Shockwaves: An Exile in Ukraine Recalls Fleeing his Native Kyrgyzstan

By Matthew Kupfer

On a recent warm summer night, Ilya Lukash sat in a bar near Kyiv’s trendy Kontraktova Square, drinking a beer and chatting with his friends in Ukrainian, Russian, and English. In a red T-shirt emblazoned with patriotic Ukrainian slogans, he could easily have been any one of the countless young, educated, pro-democracy Ukrainians who in […]

Central Asia Russia
TTIP Action July 28

Trade in Action

Jul 29, 2015

TTIP Action – July 28

By Global Business & Economics Program

US Trade Representative Michael Froman will meet with his fellow trade ministers at a TPP summit from July 28-31 in Hawaii. This Week’s Trade Highlights On July 24, the European Union, the United States, China and the vast majority of the World Trade Organization (WTO) members agreed to extend the 1996 Information Technology Agreement (ITA), […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
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