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SouthAsiaSource

Aug 15, 2014

This Week in South Asia: August 9 – 15

By Nameerah Hameed and Fahad Ahsan

Commentary from the South Asia Center on the most relevant news from the region, and suggested “must-read” analyses from the week.AfghanistanPresident Hamid Karzai announced on Thursday that Afghanistan should have a new president in the next two weeks. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that the new government should be sworn in before the […]

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UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, April 14, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 15, 2014

Special Summit Series: The United Arab Emirates and NATO

By Bilal Y. Saab

The United Arab Emirates has said and done all the right things to prove that it wants a stronger partnership with NATO.

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 25, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 15, 2014

NATO Chief Confirms ‘Russian Incursion’ into Ukraine

By Reuters

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday a “Russian incursion” into Ukraine had occurred overnight, but stopped short of characterizing it as an invasion.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 15, 2014

A Smart US Investment for Georgia’s Future

By Nino Ghvinadze and Laura Linderman

Despite Georgia’s readiness to become a candidate for NATO, the Alliance announced in late June that Georgia will not be offered a Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the Wales Summit this September. This is disappointing news for Georgia, which has undertaken years of political and military reforms and has long awaited to be welcomed into the […]

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MENASource

Aug 15, 2014

Top News: Maliki Finally Steps Down, Paving Way for New Government

By MENASource

Nouri al-Maliki finally curved to growing pressure within Iraq and internationally on Thursday and stepped down as prime minister. In the speech, Maliki endorsed fellow Shia Haider al-Abadi which he stood next to and spoke of the grave threat from Sunni Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militants.

MENASource

Aug 15, 2014

Cautious Optimism in Maliki’s Departure

By Ramzy Mardini

Iraq’s struggle for power ended on August 14 when Nouri al-Maliki conceded the office of the prime minister to his rival Haidar al-Abadi, a member of the same Shiite Islamist Da’awa party, who was designated by Iraq’s president earlier this week to form a government.

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MENASource

Aug 15, 2014

Top News: Protests Leave up to Eight Dead in Wake of Raba’a Anniversary

By EgyptSource

 At least six people were killed on Thursday, among them two protesters in Matariya and a policeman in Cairo, as security forces moved to suppress small-scale demonstrations organized by Islamists across Egyptian cities to mark the anniversary of last year’s killings of protesters, security sources said.

MENASource

Aug 15, 2014

Syria: Risks Of Intervention

By Frederic C. Hof

Recently Ross Douthat of The New York Times posted a lengthy piece on the Times‘ blog entitled “Syria and the Risks of Intervention.” It is perhaps the best piece of argumentation out there against the proposition (advanced here and elsewhere) that timely military support for armed Syrian nationalists “would have prevented more radical groups from […]

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 2, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 14, 2014

NATO’s Crucial Summit

By F. Stephen Larrabee and Ian J. Brzezinski, CNN GPS

Just weeks before its scheduled September 4 summit in Wales, NATO is bogged down in bureaucratic wrangling and losing important momentum.

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"Disengagement is misguided and dangerous"

NATOSource

Aug 14, 2014

US Disengagement from International Leadership is ‘Misguided and Dangerous’

By Richard Fontaine and Michèle Flournoy, National Interest

The United States has sought to disengage from Iraq and Afghanistan, placing more emphasis on when our troops would come home than on how we would protect our national interests as those wars end.

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