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New Atlanticist

Aug 11, 2014

Erdoğan Victory Will Extend Turkey’s Polarization, Tension with US

By Ross Wilson

Turkish Opposition Fails to Coalesce Around a Message and a Leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s widely-expected election to the presidency of Turkey won’t herald major changes in Turkey’s domestic or foreign policies, or in US-Turkish relations – at least in the short term. Polarization, an increasingly predominant characteristic of Turkey’s politics for at least seven years, […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

MENASource

Aug 11, 2014

YemenSource | International Monetary Fund Allocates $560 Loan to Yemen

By YemenSource

Yemen reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a $560 million loan on August 8. The funds will be paid over a period of three years. The government expects the first payment within two months.

MENASource

Aug 11, 2014

The Amputation of Egypt’s Islamist Political Arm

By Tarek Radwan

Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court ruling to dissolve the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) hammered yet another nail into the Muslim Brotherhood’s coffin. On Saturday, Judge Fareed Tanago delivered the verdict that would end any formal Brotherhood participation in Egypt’s political life, citing the violation of the “principles required for a popular, democratic, political party” and […]

North Africa

UkraineAlert

Aug 11, 2014

Russian-Backed Rebels Put a Local Man Out Front, But Still Look Divided

By Irena Chalupa

Separatists Show No Unity Under New Donetsk ‘Prime Minister,’ Kremlin Paper Says The Kremlin and its proxy rebellion in southeastern Ukraine seemed to recognize last week that as a supposedly Ukrainian uprising, it should have a titular Ukrainian leader, rather than a Moscow-based Russian ultra-nationalist with ties to the Kremlin. So after three months as […]

Russia Ukraine

MENASource

Aug 11, 2014

Mr. Moneybags in Egypt

By Jonathan Guyer

Last week, the privately-owned and widely-circulated Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm published three political cartoons about corruption in a single day. It’s not unusual to print so many illustrations in one edition; the paper sometimes publishes a dozen comics in a day. But what can we make of three independent cartoonists devoting their frame to criticizing […]

North Africa

AfricaSource

Aug 11, 2014

A Snapshot of Africa’s Economies

By James Attwell and Joshua Meservey

The US-Africa Leaders Summit concluded last week, and in honor of the billions of dollars’ worth of deals that emerged from the Summit, the Africa Center has created a series of maps and charts—a new one of which will be released daily—highlighting different aspects of the continent’s economic story. The map featured here presents three […]

MENASource

Aug 11, 2014

Top News: Maliki Uses His Security Forces to Prevent the Formation of a New Government

By MENASource

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered army tanks and Special Forces teams to surround the Green Zone Sunday night as he clings to his position in government. Before he ordered the special forces to action, Maliki delivered a defiant late-night speech in Baghdad saying he would file a legal case against the country’s president, who has resisted […]

MENASource

Aug 11, 2014

EconSource: IMF Agrees to a $560 Million Loan to Yemen (Minister)

By EconSource

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

Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and UK Prime Minister David Cameron, June 19, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 11, 2014

Special Summit Series: The United Kingdom and NATO

By Julian Lindley-French

As host of the NATO Wales summit, British Prime Minister David Cameron faces a delicate challenge; strategy or politics?

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Aug 11, 2014

Top News: Egyptian Court Dissolves Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s High Administrative Court ordered on Saturday the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, and the liquification of its assets.

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