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"Partnership with NATO can be seen as a successful hedging strategy"

NATOSource

Aug 16, 2013

NATO’s ‘Neutral’ European Partners: Valuable Contributors or Free Riders?

By Stanley Sloan

When the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact collapsed, five European states – Austria, Sweden, Finland, Ireland and Switzerland – decided, each for their own reasons, to remain “neutral.”

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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov

NATOSource

Aug 16, 2013

NATO Pullout From Afghanistan ‘Too Hasty’ – Russian Defense Official

By RIA Novosti

ISAF “has been too hasty about making the final decision to pull out in 2014,” Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said, adding that Afghan “domestic security forces capable of countering radical elements have not yet been created.”

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MENASource

Aug 16, 2013

Working Group on Egypt Issues Statement on Suspending Military Aid

By EgyptSource

In the wake of a deadly crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s supporters, the Working Group on Egypt has issued a statement urging the United States to suspend military aid to Egypt until, among other conditions, authorities lift the state of emergency and release all political prisoners.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Aug 15, 2013

Obama Has an Opening with Iran

By R. Nicholas Burns

With a speed few predicted, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rowhani, has signaled his interest in negotiations this autumn on Iran’s controversial nuclear program. This could produce the first extensive contact between Washington and Tehran since diplomatic relations ruptured during the Jimmy Carter administration.

Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

New Atlanticist

Aug 15, 2013

War on Terror Is not the Only Threat

By Harlan Ullman

Unspecific warnings last week about an al-Qaida terrorist plot were taken very seriously.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Aug 14, 2013

Egypt and the Death of a Revolution

The Egyptian security forces finally made their move against supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in the early hours of August 14, 2013. After weeks of warnings by the interior ministry and the military, authorities followed through on the threat to storm the two protest sites at Raba’a al-Adaweya and al-Nahda, supported with bulldozers and armored […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Aug 14, 2013

Central Asia Can’t Be Forgotten

By James L. Jones

The transformation of Central Asia and the Caucasus that began twenty years ago—and in which the transatlantic community has a vital stake—is incomplete and uncertain. Despite progress, numerous problems remain. They vary from country to country, but among the most ubiquitous are ineffective governance, political systems that lack public participation and transparency, shortcomings in the […]

Central Asia Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Aug 14, 2013

Will White House Strong Words on Egypt Be Followed by Action?

By James Joyner

The Obama administration has issued a strongly worded statement on this morning’s massacre by the Egyptian government:

North Africa Political Reform
Prime minister of Montenegro Igor Luksic and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 21, 2012

NATOSource

Aug 13, 2013

Montenegrins Divided on NATO Membership: Survey

By BIRN

Forty per cent of Montenegrins want the country to join NATO while 39 per cent are against membership of the Western military alliance, a survey has suggested.

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Aug 13, 2013

Is Sudan Providing Chinese Missiles to Syrian Rebels?

By C.J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt, New York Times

Syrian rebels, frustrated by the West’s reluctance to provide arms, have found a supplier in an unlikely source: Sudan, a country that has been under international arms embargoes and maintains close ties with a stalwart backer of the Syrian government, Iran.

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