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New Atlanticist

Sep 8, 2014

Yemen: Protests and Mistrust of Government Hamper Another Arab Struggle Toward Stability

Months After ‘National Dialogue’ Opened a Path Forward, Ill-Prepared Reforms Ignite New Turmoil Eight months after Yemen sparked hope for its stabilization with a broad political accord for a new, federal state, that agreement has eroded into massive protests that threaten to undermine the earlier progress. Tens of thousands of Shia tribesmen from Yemen’s Houthi […]

Yemen

New Atlanticist

Sep 5, 2014

Expert Briefing: NATO Summit Takeaways

The following is a September 5, 2014 briefing from Fred Kempe, president and CEO, the Atlantic Council, Damon Wilson, executive vice president, the Atlantic Council, and R. Nicholas Burns, former US ambassador to NATO, Atlantic Council Board Member, and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Listen to the audio: Click here to read […]

FutureSource

Sep 5, 2014

Moore’s Law 2.0?

By Thomas A. Campbell

In 1965, Dr. Gordon E. Moore wrote an article (PDF) based on a trend he noticed that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles approximately every two years. Fueled by unrelenting demands from more complex software, faster games, and greater broadband video, this observation was later dubbed Moore’s Law and has held […]

Trade in Action

Sep 5, 2014

TTIP – A Transatlantic Agreement in a New Phase of Globalization

By Marie Kasperek

On September 8, Italian vice–minister for Trade Carlo Calenda presented the priorities of the Italian Presidency of the European Council of Ministers to the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee. He was joined by US Ambassador to the EU Gardner who was invited to speak on the state of the transatlantic relationship and TTIP in particular.

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Sep 5, 2014

Top News: US Confirms Joint Alliance to Counter ISIS Militants

By MENASource

The United States said on Friday it was forming a “core coalition” to battle Islamic State of Iraq and al-sham (ISIS) militants in Iraq, calling for broad support from allies and partners but ruling out committing ground forces. President Barack Obama sought to use a NATO summit in Wales to enlist allied support in fighting the Islamist […]

MENASource

Sep 5, 2014

Top News: NCHR Demands Medical Supervision of Hunger-Striking Activists

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) called for allowing hunger-strike activists Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Abdel Rahman Nouby medical supervision at an external hospital following the deterioration of their medical condition.

MENASource

Sep 5, 2014

EconSource: Egypt Hit by Largest Blackout in Years

By EconSource

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

Trade in Action

Sep 4, 2014

TTIP’s Geostrategic Implications and the New European Commission

Why Trade Matters This great report is an excellent overview of the economic and strategic foundation of “an ambitious domestic and global trade agenda” for the United States, written by former Deputy US Trade Representative Miriam Sapiro. The underlying rationale of the paper is that it is imperative for the United States to strengthen its […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Sep 4, 2014

In Russia, Speaking Power to Truth

By Irena Chalupa

Thugs Beat the Official Who Revealed Kremlin’s Secret Burial of Soldiers Killed in Ukraine War The story Lev Shlosberg told Russians last week is potential political dynamite for President Vladimir Putin: Shlosberg, a provincial legislator from Pskov, visited the funeral for two local men, paratroopers of the 76th Airborne Division, who had been killed in […]

Russia Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Sep 4, 2014

NATO Sec Gen: Russian Aggression Is a “Wake Up Call”

By New Atlanticist

Leaders at NATO Summit Criticize Russia, Caution against Isolationism The crises in the Middle East and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are expected to top the agenda as Western leaders gathered in Wales for the NATO Summit this week. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, speaking at the Atlantic Council’s Future Leaders Summit, called Russia’s aggression […]

NATO Security & Defense
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