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MENASource

Sep 10, 2014

EconSource: Gulf Urged to Fund ‘Arab Marshall Plan’ to Contain Unrest

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and analysis about the Arab transition countries. 

MENASource

Sep 10, 2014

PM Haider al-Abadi: A New Era in Iraq?

By Daniel R. DePetris

The announcement of a new government in Iraq represents perhaps the best news out of the country since former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki relinquished power peacefully. Political players set aside a highly partisan dynamic, in part to address the existential terrorist threat facing Iraq.

Iraq

MENASource

Sep 10, 2014

TODAY: Tackling Egypt’s Economic Dilemma with Egypt’s Former Finance Minister Ahmed Galal

By EgyptSource

Three years of political turmoil since the 2011 uprising in Egypt have crippled economic growth, reduced productivity, and led to rising poverty and inequality rates. Although it will take both structural and institutional economic reforms to effectively address this challenging mix of socioeconomic grievances and to increase growth, the country must implement an economic plan […]

North Africa

Trade in Action

Sep 9, 2014

News on TTIP and the need for a new European Economic Strategy

Big Cities Benefit from Free Trade – so why are Democrats Stalling it?In her article, Nina Easton wonders why some labor unions are still opposing the conclusion of TTIP and TPP when it is exports that has been boosting post-recession economic gains and job growth in big cities. Data shows that, in the first two […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Sep 9, 2014

The Islamic State: First the Strategy, Then What?

By Frederic C. Hof

Not long ago President Barack Obama took some heat for committing truth: for saying that a strategy was not yet in place to counter the pseudo-Islamic, terrorist-criminal phenomenon calling itself the “Islamic State:” a murderous organization dominating pieces of Iraq and Syria, adding up in size to New England.

Syria
Ukraine is a NATO partner

NATOSource

Sep 9, 2014

Debate: Should NATO Defend Ukraine?

By New York Times

The New York Times asked seven experts; Should NATO be helping Ukraine face Russia?

NATO NATO Partnerships
UK Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to the press, Aug. 29, 2014

NATOSource

Sep 9, 2014

British Prime Minister on NATO Reforms

By David Cameron, Office of the Prime Minister

After the end of the Cold War, NATO stood down its highest readiness force.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Sep 9, 2014

Top News: Iraqi Parliament Approves New Government

By MENASource

Iraq’s parliament approved a new government headed by Haider al-Abadi as prime minister on Monday night, in a bid to rescue Iraq from collapse, with sectarianism and Arab-Kurdish tensions on the rise. Abadi, a Shi’ite Islamist, included members of Iraq’s Shi’ite majority and its Kurdish and Sunni minorities in his cabinet as he started his […]

MENASource

Sep 9, 2014

Top News: Beltagy and Hegazy Sentenced to Twenty Years in Prison

By EgyptSource

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagy and Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazy to twenty years in prison. They received ten years in a maximum security prison for the alleged torture of two policemen during the Raba’a al-Adaweya sit-in, and another ten years each on charges of joining and managing an illegal organization.

MENASource

Sep 9, 2014

EconSource: Struggling Tunisia Appeals to World for Investment

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

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