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MENASource

Dec 4, 2013

YemenSource Headlines – December 2, 2013

By MENASource

Follow the week’s top news headlines and analysis from Yemen and regional press.

Yemen
President Barack Obama on Air Force One

NATOSource

Dec 4, 2013

Majority of Americans Disapprove of Obama’s Handling of Foreign Policy

By Pew Research Center

Foreign policy, once a relative strength for President Obama, has become a target of substantial criticism. By a 56% to 34% margin more disapprove than approve of his handling of foreign policy.

Europe & Eurasia Syria

MENASource

Dec 4, 2013

The Egyptian People Are Not Ready

By Mohammad Tolba

The Egyptian people are not ready. So said Omar Suleiman, when he wanted to strip the Egyptian people of their right to choose who governs them, when they wanted to end the state of humiliation and disgrace they lived in under ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

North Africa

MENASource

Dec 4, 2013

Top News: Minister of information asserts that Syria’s Assad will lead any transition process

By MENASource

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will remain president and lead any transition agreed upon in Geneva peace talks planned for next month, a government minister insisted on Wednesday. “If anyone thinks we are going to Geneva II to hand the keys to Damascus over [to the opposition], then he might as well not go,” Information Minister […]

MENASource

Dec 4, 2013

Top News: PM Urges Roadmap Supporters to Vote on Referendum; Islamists Say it Will be Rigged

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s interim Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawy has urged those who took to the streets on June 30 to also show their support by voting for the recently amended constitution. The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, a pro-Morsi coalition led by his Muslim Brotherhood movement, has said it rejects the country’s newly amended constitution, but has stopped short of […]

FutureSource

Dec 4, 2013

An Emerging Third Industrial Revolution

By Banning Garrett

 Politicians and policymakers understandably focus almost exclusively on near-term problems and crises. They often operate in reactive mode as hotspots and domestic political pressures set priorities. But their “global operating environment” (GOE) is rapidly changing, often in ways that affect national security challenges and choices in the present as well as in the future. To […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 4, 2013

Eurasia’s Captive Nations

By Damon Wilson

During the Cold War, against all odds and the tenets of realpolitik diplomacy, every White House and US Congress championed the cause of the ‘captive nations’ of central and eastern Europe locked behind the Iron Curtain. The accession over the next two decades of Poland, Estonia, and others to NATO and the European Union ended Cold War […]

Eastern Europe Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Dec 4, 2013

EconSource Headlines-December 4, 2013

By EconSource

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

New Atlanticist

Dec 4, 2013

The Nuclear Deal with Iran and the Law of Unintended Consequences

By Harlan Ullman

The Thanksgiving holiday and the consumer shopping frenzy over “Black Friday” last week temporarily captured America headlines obscuring for a brief spell, the nuclear deal that, if consummated, will assure Iran will not develop nuclear weapons. But make no mistake. Debate over the agreement signed by the P5+1, the European Union, and Iran will fill […]

Iran

New Atlanticist

Dec 4, 2013

Obama Refocuses on Asia

By Robert A. Manning

Sometimes foreign-policy success occurs almost inadvertently—and when least expected. When President Obama cancelled his planned visit to Asia in October during the recent US government shutdown, doubts amongst many in the region over the durability of the US “pivot” to Asia reached a crescendo. But a cascade of recent events, highlighted by B-52s defying a Chinese air-defense identification […]

China Indo-Pacific
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