Category: Blogs

President Obama’s Address on Syria

Tuesday evening, President Obama made a primetime address on Syria. The full text of his remarks are below the video.

A Much Less Special Relationship

By Roger Cohen, New York Times

Britain’s decision not to stand with the United States, its closest ally, in possible military action to punish the Syrian regime for a deadly chemical weapons attack marks a watershed moment

The Nour Party’s Gamble on the Interim Government

By Sarah El-Rashidi

While emerging unexpectedly in the wake of the January 25 revolution, the Salafist political trend is one of the few Islamist movements still involved in the current political process, in the form of one of one of the largest Salafi political parties – the Nour Party. While giving cover to the current government, with a […]

Closing Ceremony for EUCOM’s Historic Campbell Barracks

By Alison Smale, New York Times

For Germans and Americans who had long imagined a dramatic coda to the cold war, it came instead in a few solemn, quiet moments.

NATO: UK Nuclear Might ‘Crucial’

By Express

Britain must not take advantage of the winding down of operations in Afghanistan to trim spending on defence, the head of Nato has warned.

Egypt’s Draft Constitutional Amendments (Part I)

By Yussef Auf

The process of creating Egypt’s 2012 constitution was accompanied by considerable debate—from the formation of the constituent assembly tasked with drafting it to its ratification last December. Up until his ouster, the constitution was one of the major crises facing former President Mohamed Morsi’s regime, so it comes as no surprise that it is a […]

NATO Secretary General: ‘We Need a Firm International Response to the Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria’

By BNS

European countries should invest more in their defence capacities to be able to defend principles of democracy around the globe, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Vilnius.