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MENASource

Jun 2, 2015

EconSource: IMF Lifts Outlook for Saudi GDP, Sees Bigger Budget Gap this Year

By EconSource

Saudi Arabia’s economy will keep expanding this year, showing little effect from the oil price drop, but growth will slow in 2016 as lower oil revenues hit state spending, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said after talks with Saudi officials.

MENASource

Jun 2, 2015

Religious Kurds Key to Turkish Electoral Outcomes

By Aaron Stein

Just days before Turkish citizens head to the poll for the June 7 national election, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Turkey’s fourth largest party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) are competing for the hearts and minds of religiously minded Kurds.

Turkey

EconoGraphics

Jun 2, 2015

How big is the opportunity to increase US exports in the Transpacific Partnership?

By Global Business & Economics

Data from 2014 shows that while American exports to the 11 other TPP nations totaled more than half a trillion dollars in absolute terms, there remains considerable room for improvement in relative terms

Americas Australia

UkraineAlert

Jun 1, 2015

The Odesa Gambit

By Michael Hikari Cecire

Mikheil Saakashvili has a varied resume: former President of Georgia, Justice Minister, parliamentarian, senior statesman, and Ukrainian presidential adviser. On May 30, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko added another line to his CV. He named Saakaskvili regional Governor of Odesa, a vulnerable and strategic port city on the Black Sea. Despite having served in Georgia through […]

The Caucasus Ukraine

MENASource

Jun 1, 2015

Top News: Iraqi Forces Edge Towards Ramadi

By MENASource

Iraqi forces retook an area west of Ramadi on Saturday as they pressed their operation aimed at sealing off ISIS by severing their supply lines.

Swedish corvette HMS Helsingborg, June 30, 2008

NATOSource

Jun 1, 2015

Foreign Incursions into Swedish Territorial Waters Expose Stockholm’s Military Shortcomings

By Elisabeth Braw, Politico Europe

At the end of the Cold War, Swedish submarine hunters commanded an arsenal featuring depth charges, torpedoes, and anti-submarine-warfare grenades, and surface submarine hunters were aided by a large number of helicopters, which easily spot movements in the water.

NATO Northern Europe
Russian President Vladimir Putin, May 10, 2015

NATOSource

Jun 1, 2015

NATO: Countering Strategic Maskirovka

By Julian Lindley-French, Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute

What must NATO do to counter President Putin?

NATO Russia

MENASource

Jun 1, 2015

Top News: Hunger-striking Prisoner Mohamed Soltan Gives Up Egyptian Citizenship, is Deported to US

By EgyptSource

Egyptian authorities freed an Egyptian American on Saturday who was sentenced to life in prison and had been on hunger strike for over a year, forcing him to renounce his Egyptian citizenship as a precondition of his release.

MENASource

Jun 1, 2015

EconSource: Oil Halts Advance as Saudis Pump at Record Before OPEC Meeting

By EconSource

Oil halted a two-day advance as Saudi Arabia maintained record crude output in May before the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meets this week to discuss its production policy.

New Atlanticist

May 29, 2015

Fighting Putin’s Lies with the Truth

By Damon Wilson

“I can tell you outright and unequivocally that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine,” Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on a live television show April 16. That claim was patently false. To put it bluntly: Mr. Putin was lying through his teeth. The conflict in Ukraine’s east is a Kremlin-manufactured war, begun by Russian […]

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