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New Atlanticist

May 21, 2015

Achieving a Strategic Transatlantic Wiedervereinigung

By Alton V. Buland

Instability arcs along Europe’s periphery from the Middle East and North Africa up the Black Sea and into the Arctic, while transnational security challenges (climate change, cyber threats, etc.) challenge our future. At the same time, the bonds of Cold War transatlantic solidarity have weakened as new generations arise and isolationist/nativist movements reemerge on both […]

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Trade in Action

May 21, 2015

TTIP Action | May 21

By Global Business & Economics Program

TPA cleared a major hurdle in the Republican-controlled Senate today, with a 62-38 vote ending debate on the bill and moving it toward a final vote in the House. Yesterday, the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics Program bid farewell to the “founding father” of TTIP Action, Garrett Workman, Associate Director at the Global Business […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

SyriaSource

May 21, 2015

Syria, You’re On Your Own

By Frederic C. Hof

In his May 19 briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest leveled, in his own peculiar way, with the people of Syria: “… the President feels very strongly that the very significant problems that are faced by people in Syria, for example, are not problems that the United States is going to come in and […]

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MENASource

May 21, 2015

Top News: Presidents Obama and Essebsi to Meet; Countries Sign MOU, Agree to Boost Economic, Security Ties

By MENASource

President Barack Obama is showing support for Tunisia’s transition to democracy by welcoming the North African country’s newly elected president, Beji Caid Essebsi to the White House today.

MENASource

May 21, 2015

Top News: Islamic State’s Egypt Affiliate Urges Attacks on Judges

By EgyptSource

Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate on Wednesday urged followers to attack judges, declaring a new front in an Islamist militant insurgency in the world’s most populous Arab state.

MENASource

May 21, 2015

Egypt’s Sisi: Reformer or Strongman?

By Dwight Bashir

This past weekend’s mass death sentences handed down to former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others is another stark reminder of the government’s relentless assault on all forms of dissent in Egypt. By far the biggest targets have been supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also opposition figures, critics, journalists, and rights […]

North Africa

MENASource

May 21, 2015

EconSource: Libya’s General National Congress Approves Subsidies Reforms

By EconSource

Libya’s General National Congress (GNC) has approved a potentially controversial decision to replace state subsidies for basic goods with direct cash payments, which it said would reduce smuggling.

MENASource

May 21, 2015

Train-and-Equip Alone Will Not Help Tunisia

By Haykel Ben Mahfoudh

Tunisia has faced increasingly complex security problems since its uprising in 2011 and in the country’s post-revolution phase. Tunisia’s government has taken some steps towards addressing its security concerns by placing security logistics as a top priority and key political actors—including police unions—have debated security reforms within the public discourse.

North Africa
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NATOSource

May 21, 2015

Albania Threatens to Veto Macedonia’s NATO Bid

By AFP

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama threatened on Wednesday that his country would veto Macedonia’s NATO candidacy, arguing it did not respect the rights of its ethnic Albanian minority.

NATO Security & Defense

UkraineAlert

May 21, 2015

War in Ukraine of Global Significance, Says Archbishop

By Melinda Haring

“To those from outside, [the fighting in Ukraine] may seem like a regional conflict, but that’s really not the case,” said Archbishop Zoria Yevstratiy of Chernihiv of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Kyiv Patriarchate.  In an interview at the Atlantic Council on May 19, Yevstratiy described the situation in Ukraine as unique and of global significance.

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