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New Atlanticist

Dec 22, 2014

Europe-Turkey Tensions Rise as Russia Seeks Partnership with Ankara

By Pınar Dost-Niyego

Three recent events in and around Turkey raise concerns about this country’s direction for the United States and its European allies.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

MENASource

Dec 22, 2014

Sinai and The Marginalization of Egyptian Society

By Amr Hamzawy

States enjoy stability when they ensure justice, when they respect the principles of the rule of law, the transfer of power, and equal citizenship, and when they uphold guarantees for human rights and individual and collective freedoms.  Societies experience progress when they are peaceful and tolerant and when they unleash the energy and potential of […]

North Africa

MENASource

Dec 22, 2014

Top News: Military intervention may be only alternative if diplomatic efforts fail

By MENASource

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said that he is unable to rule out the possibility of international military intervention in Libya if ongoing diplomatic efforts for dialogue fail to bear fruit.

MENASource

Dec 22, 2014

Top News: Qatar Gives ‘Full Support’ to Egypt; US Delivers Apaches; Egypt Appoints New Intelligence Chief

By EgyptSource

Qatar has pledged its “full support” to Egypt, an official statement said, ending more than a year of regional isolation over its support for Cairo’s ousted Islamist president.

MENASource

Dec 22, 2014

EconSource: Oil Prices to Save Egypt EGP30 billion in Subsidies

By EconSource

According to the Egyptian minister of petroleum, the global drop in oil prices will save Egypt a third of its fuel subsidy bill in the current fiscal year. As a result, fuel subsidies will drop to about EGP70 billion ($9.7 billion) in the fiscal year ending June 2015, down from EGP100 billion originally planned.

New Atlanticist

Dec 20, 2014

US Faces Tough Challenge in Responding to North Korean Cyber Attack

By New Atlanticist

‘Proportionate’ Response Will Be Hard to Shape, Atlantic Council’s Jason Healey Says The US government faces a tough challenge in determining how to fulfil President Obama’s promise to “respond proportionately” to North Korea’s cyber attack on Sony Pictures, according to Atlantic Council analyst Jason Healey. “What this really means for now is that the administration […]

Cybersecurity East Asia

NATOSource

Dec 19, 2014

Merry Christmas 2014

By Jorge Benitez, Director of NATOSource

Merry Christmas and thank you to everyone that supported NATOSource during 2014. The NATOSource website will not be updated during the holidays, but you will be able to receive news and updates through our Twitter account: @NATOSource.

United States and Canada
Russian Mig-31, March 31, 2012

NATOSource

Dec 19, 2014

Five Weapons Russia Could Use in an Arctic War

By Robert Farley, National Interest

It’s not surprising that Russia has prepared its military for arctic operations better than any other country.

Europe & Eurasia NATO
French Mistral class warship Dixmude, July 14, 2011

NATOSource

Dec 19, 2014

Mistral Mysteries

By Jeff Lightfoot, American Interest

To most American and European observers, Hollande’s reluctance to cancel the Mistral sale was incomprehensible.

France NATO

MENASource

Dec 19, 2014

2015: The Year of the Syrian People

By Frederic C. Hof

2014, like the three years preceding it, was a year of horror, terror, and hardship for millions of Syrians, the overwhelming majority of whom—Arab and Kurdish, Sunni, Alawite, Christian, Druze, Ismaili, and Shia—were innocent victims of heartless, criminal violence: most, though not all, orchestrated by Bashar al-Assad and his clan-based regime.

Syria
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