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SouthAsiaSource

May 9, 2014

This Week in South Asia: May 3 – May 9

Commentary from the South Asia Center on the most relevant news from the region, and suggested “must-read” analyses from the week. PakistanAs the ruling party in Pakistan completes its first year in power, opposition parties are raising the issue of ‘election rigging’ again, and plan to launch nationwide protests in the coming weeks. The elections […]

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MENASource

May 9, 2014

Egypt’s Universities and the Struggle for Public Space

By MENASource

In the aftermath of Mohammed Morsi’s removal from the office of the president and the subsequent crackdown on his supporters and those of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian authorities have spared no effort to reclaim and expand the power they once held during the pre-2011 days. Egyptian campuses remain one of the last areas to voice […]

North Africa

MENASource

May 9, 2014

Top News: American Journalist Deported from Yemen as Official Warns “Others Next”

By MENASource

Adam Baron, one of only two foreign journalists with press visas in the country, was forced to leave the country on Thursday. Baron was contacted on Monday regarding an error with his paperwork, but when he went to get it resolved he was held until he agreed to leave the country. Baron says the only reason he was given […]

MENASource

May 9, 2014

Top News: Obama Nominates Ambassadors for Key Egypt and Iraq Posts

By EgyptSource

President Barack Obama said on Thursday he would nominate two career diplomats with extensive experience in the Middle East as ambassadors to Egypt and Iraq.

AfricaSource

May 9, 2014

“Boko Haram’s evolving threat”: J. Peter Pham report for the National Defense University

By J. Peter Pham

Worth reading again: two years ago Dr. Pham authored a report for the US National Defense University on Boko Haram that recent events in Nigeria have proven remains relevant today. In the brief, Dr. Pham reaches back to the 1940s to place the group in its proper social, historical, and political context, and traces its […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin in Karelia, April 28, 2014

NATOSource

May 9, 2014

Putin’s Nordic Shadow and Finland’s Growing Interest in NATO

By James Kirchick, Foreign Policy

[I]n the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the once-dormant debate about joining NATO is heating up in both Finland and its Nordic neighbor, Sweden.

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MENASource

May 9, 2014

The Death Sentence: Consequences of Taking the Wrong Path [Part II]

By Yussef Auf

The repercussions of sentencing hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death have mostly been negative. The positions of international officials towards what happened may give a sense of the scale of the extremely negative reaction to these events.

North Africa

MENASource

May 9, 2014

The Battle Behind Campus Walls

By Eric Knecht

Egyptian universities have become too dangerous for the state to handle. Or at least it would seem that way. Students this week at Cairo University, the country’s largest national university, sat for final examinations on campuses more closely resembling high security prisons.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2014

The Mission in the Middle: OSCE’s Team Amid Ukraine’s War

By Irena Chalupa

Militia’s Detention of Monitoring Team Underscores Challenges to Group Tasked as Neutral Observer The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has deployed about 150 of what are to be at least 300 monitors in Ukraine in its mission to de-escalate its conflict with Russian-backed separatists in the country’s south and east. Patience, restraint […]

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New Atlanticist

May 8, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | May 8

By Irena Chalupa

Don’t Be Fooled: The Kremlin Isn’t Backpedaling from The American Interest The World According to Putin from The Economist Ukraine separatists to go ahead with referendum despite Putin call for delay from The Guardian How Ukraine Will Get Crimea Back from New Republic How Putin Is Reinventing Warfare from Foreign Policy Why May 9 will […]

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