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New Atlanticist

Aug 6, 2015

Correcting Obama’s Iran speech

By Matthew Kroenig

Like much political rhetoric, President Barack Obama’s speech in defense of the Iran nuclear deal at American University August 5 contained trenchant insights, but also falsehoods and half-truths. This blog post aims to correct several of the speech’s most erroneous claims. 1. Obama admits the deal doesn’t solve many problems, but he maintains that it […]

Iran National Security

MENASource

Aug 6, 2015

EconSource: Egypt Opening Suez Canal Expansion to High Hopes and Some Doubts

By EconSource

Egypt opens an expansion to the Suez Canal today, the centerpiece of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s plan to revitalize the country’s economy. However, some analysts and economists say that the mega-project may fail to meet the great expectations.

New Atlanticist

Aug 5, 2015

Obama Gives Passionate Defense of Iran Nuclear Deal

By Barbara Slavin

When President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after taking office in 2009, he was the first to admit that the honor was premature. Compared to historical giants like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela, Obama told the Nobel committee, his own accomplishments had been “slight.”  But as the first US […]

Iran National Security
Julianne Smith, former Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden, July 1, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 5, 2015

Former White House Official on the Current State of Transatlantic Security Cooperation

By Foreign Affairs

Excerpts from interview of Julianne Smith by Michael Williams.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Aug 5, 2015

Top News: Egypt Prepares to Inaugurate Expanded Suez Canal

By EgyptSource

To mark the inauguration of the $8.5 billion expansion of the Suez Canal, new passport stamps trumpet the project as “Egypt’s Gift to the World,” Cairo’s Tahrir Square has been festooned with strings of blue and white lights, nine swimmers from Egypt’s Paralympics team pulled a 5 kilometer flag along the waterway, and Thursday has been declared a […]

MENASource

Aug 5, 2015

Top News: Turkish Jets Hit PKK Targets; Qatar Backs Turkey over Bombing Raids in Northern Iraq

By MENASource

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebel targets in the southeastern Turkish town of Daglica on Tuesday near the border with Iraq. The assault came after three Turkish soldiers were killed by PKK attacks in a neighboring province on Tuesday.

MENASource

Aug 5, 2015

EconSource: Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Face Financial Crisis

By EconSource

Blocked from selling Yemen’s oil, the Houthi-led government has slipped into a financial crisis after four months of conflict with a Saudi-led military coalition.

MENASource

Aug 5, 2015

The Five Points of Discussion for the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue

By MENASource

The US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue saw a meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (along with a large number of other officials on both sides) on August 2 in an attempt to rekindle a bilateral relationship that saw its share of turbulence over the past few years.

North Africa

UkraineAlert

Aug 5, 2015

Moscow’s Veto of MH17 Tribunal: A Blunder of Potentially Huge Proportions

By Ariel Cohen

On July 29, Russia vetoed a draft UN resolution seeking to set up a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines jumbo jet more than a year ago. By exercising its Security Council veto against the resolution, Moscow has lost control of the process, committing a possible error that may ultimately […]

Russia Ukraine
Should the US build up a stock of cyberweapons?

NATOSource

Aug 4, 2015

Pentagon Seeks Cyber Weapons Strong Enough to Deter Attacks

By Financial Times and Los Angeles Times

From Sam Jones, Financial Times:  James Clapper, the Obama administration’s director of national intelligence, is not given to slips of the tongue.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
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