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Trade in Action

Oct 10, 2013

What We’re Reading | October 10

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
Obama and Kerry meet with Erdogan and Fidan, 2nd & 3rd from left.

NATOSource

Oct 10, 2013

Turkey’s Spymaster Plots Own Course on Syria

By Adam Entous and Joe Parkinson, Wall Street Journal

“Hakan Fidan [Turkey’s powerful spymaster] is the face of the new Middle East,” says James Jeffrey, who recently served as U.S. ambassador in Turkey and Iraq.

Iran Syria

MENASource

Oct 10, 2013

Top News: Cairo Condemns Washington for Suspending Military Aid

By EgyptSource

Egypt Thursday condemned a decision by the United States to suspend deliveries of major arms and cash assistance to the Egyptian government, despite assertions of continuing support for interim authorities.

MENASource

Oct 10, 2013

Top News: Abductors Briefly Seize Libyan Prime Minister

By MENASource

Prime Minister Ali Zidan was seized for several hours on Thursday by former rebel militiamen angered by the recent capture of a Libyan al-Qaeda suspect by US special forces in Tripoli. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen condemned the abduction.

New Atlanticist

Oct 10, 2013

Five More Years: On the Challenges Facing Azerbaijan’s President

By Sabine Freizer

President Ilham Aliyev is about to start his third mandate in Azerbaijan. Despite some hefty criticism by the main European elections observation mission, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the elections on 9 October were the easy part. Azerbaijan has made impressive economic progress in recent years, Baku’s sparking skyline standing as […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 10, 2013

Regional Aligned Forces vs. Air-Sea Battle

By Derek S. Reveron

While Secretary of State John Kerry is representing the United States in Asia this week, there is a growing chorus dismissing the sincerity and depth of the planned rebalance to Asia. “For countries not closely allied with the US, Obama’s no-show [at the APEC summit] will reinforce their policy of bandwagoning with China,” wrote Carl […]

A protest tent burns as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi by force in a huge camp near Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo on August 14, 2013.

MENASource

Oct 9, 2013

The Almost-Aid Cut to Egypt

When CNN broke the news the evening of October 8 that the United States would formally withdraw all foreign military aid to Egypt, everyone was set atwitter. Literally. Avid Egypt observers furiously took to social media to mark what would have been the most significant change to US-Egypt relations since the late 1970s.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Oct 9, 2013

US State Dept Releases Details of Suspension of Some Aid to Egypt

A State Department press release Wednesday evening confirmed that the Obama administration would be suspending portions of US aid to Egypt.

North Africa
German Army Leopard II tank

NATOSource

Oct 9, 2013

German Military Power in an Age of Austerity

By Patrick Keller, American Enterprise Institute

Since 1990, the Bundeswehr has been undergoing constant reform.

Germany NATO
Illustration of Aegis Ashore

NATOSource

Oct 9, 2013

Pentagon Builds Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Site in Romania

By Kris Osborn, DoDBuzz

The Missile Defense Agency is working with Lockheed Martin to build a land-based Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense site in Romania

Missile Defense Security & Defense