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MENASource

Oct 23, 2013

Top News: Cabinet Says Emergency Law to End Mid-November

By EgyptSource

Cabinet spokesperson Sherif Shawqi has claimed Egypt’s emergency law will not continue past mid-November. In remarks on Tuesday, Shawqi said the Cabinet does not intend to extend the emergency law in the wake of the Warraq church attack.

MENASource

Oct 23, 2013

Syria: The London 11 on Geneva

By Frederic C. Hof

The London 11 core group of the Friends of the Syrian People on October 22 took aim at giving a very skeptical opposition Syrian National Coalition a basis for attending a Geneva peace conference (Geneva 2) in late November.

Syria

MENASource

Oct 23, 2013

The Muslim Brotherhood: A New Ban

By Yussef Auf

With the issuing of the September 23 ruling by the Cairo Court for Urgent Affairs, banning the Muslim Brotherhood group’s activities and confiscating its funds, the group has entered a new phase. On October 2, the Egyptian cabinet issued a decision forming a committee to handle and execute the ruling, and to ascertain the number […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Oct 23, 2013

The Military and the Shutdown: Assessing the Damage

By James Joyner

With the government back in business, it’s worth reflecting on the toll the sixteen-day shutdown inflicted on the nation’s defense. While most of the media attention went to relative trivialities like service-academy sports and the closure of war memorials, we wasted enormous resources that could otherwise have gone toward the nation’s security.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, April 30, 2008

NATOSource

Oct 22, 2013

Time for Germany to Step Up to Its Responsibilities

By Constanze Stelzenmüller, Financial Times

The country’s very existence as an export nation relies on globalisation. So it has an overwhelming interest in the health of the international order that enables global trade and communication networks to function.

European Union Germany
A rebel checkpoint in Libya, August 26, 2011

NATOSource

Oct 22, 2013

Assassination Pushes Libya Towards Civil War

By Chris Stephen, Guardian

Violence between radical militias and regular forces broke out on Friday night and continued yesterday [Saturday], while the capital Tripoli is braced for fallout from the kidnapping earlier this month of prime minister Ali Zaidan.

Libya
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and German Minister of Defense Thomas de Maizière, March 11, 2011

NATOSource

Oct 22, 2013

German Plan to Reform NATO Faces Broad Opposition

By Matthias Gebauer, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Christoph Schult, Spiegel

German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière wants to strengthen cooperation among NATO members and is calling for reform of the military alliance. But other countries are skeptical.

France Germany

Trade in Action

Oct 22, 2013

What We’re Reading | October 22

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Oct 22, 2013

Hispanics Must Embrace Entrepreneurship and Innovation to Improve Education

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

By now, we all know the numbers. When it comes to education, Hispanics in the US are in trouble. There is a clear and persistent achievement gap between the educational performance of white and Latino students — white graduation rates outpace that of Latinos by nearly 12 percent. Nearly 15 percent of all Latinos drop out before completing […]

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Turkey's Minister of Defense Ismet Yilmaz, October 22, 2013

NATOSource

Oct 22, 2013

Turkey’s Chinese Missile Buy Overshadows NATO Meeting

By Brooks Tigner, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

Senior NATO diplomats have again stressed that Turkey’s intention to buy a Chinese air defence system must not put its interoperability links to the alliance in question

China Missile Defense
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