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New Atlanticist

Aug 8, 2013

All-American Agenda: A Financially Realistic Defense

By Harlan Ullman

Perhaps the best thing that happened to the United States last week was Congress abandoning Washington for a 5-week break deferring all the major issues and problems. Will anything improve when Congress returns? The answer isn’t reassuring.

Economy & Business National Security

New Atlanticist

Aug 8, 2013

The EU’s Future: I Would Not Start from Here

By Julian Lindley-French

There is a hoary old Irish joke that gets quoted far too often at conferences I attend. An American tourist is lost in the Irish countryside (the lost Yank is always in Ireland) and asks a farmer directions to Dublin. “Well,” says the farmer. “I would not start from here.” Much the same can be […]

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Aug 8, 2013

The United States Needs to Communicate a Clear, Consistent Stance on Democracy and Rights in Egypt

By David Johnson

Considerable criticism of President Barack Obama’s administration emerged following the White House’s conclusion that “the law does not require [the administration] to make a formal determination as to whether a coup took place” in Egypt. In a press conference following the Thursday announcement, asked as to whether the administration would ever render a judgment on […]

MENASource

Aug 8, 2013

Top News: Presidency Outlines Selection Criteria for Fifty Member Constitutional Committee

By EgyptSource

The presidency issued a decree on Wednesday outlining the criteria that will be used to select the fifty members of the committee charged with drawing up amendments to the 2012 constitution.

MENASource

Aug 7, 2013

Under Mubarak, Morsi or Sisi, Sinai Remains a Victim

By Mohannad Sabry

In mid-June, I got into a worn-down, eight-seater Mercedes that has been racing between Cairo and the Rafah Crossing Terminal for decades. The Egyptian capital was simmering in preparation for June 30, and Sinai was anxiously waiting for what could plunge the whole country into chaos. Several days before my trip, tribal chiefs had successfully […]

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 7, 2013

Jordan Ignores Domestic Discontent at its Own Peril

By Danya Greenfield and Brian Braun

Angry protestors in the Jordanian city of Karak and further south in Tafileh on August 2 denounced the government for the miserable conditions facing ordinary Jordanians: high unemployment, rising prices, corruption, and increased social violence across the kingdom. Despite the fact that the debate about political reform in Jordan has largely fallen off the radar, […]

New Atlanticist

Aug 7, 2013

John Kerry’s Pakistan Deja Vu

By Shuja Nawaz

“Time is running out” to help nuclear-armed Pakistan’s civilian government survive. That is what then-Senator John Kerry (D-MA) said in support of the recommendations of an Atlantic Council report that was released in February 2009. The report, which provided a comprehensive look at Western relations with Pakistan, estimated that, at that point, then-President Asif Ali Zardari’s government […]

Pakistan South Asia

New Atlanticist

Aug 7, 2013

Ergekenon–the Movie

By Ross Wilson

Turkey’s long-running case against alleged plotters to overthrow the government reached another milestone on August 5 when an Istanbul court handed down sentences in the so-called Ergenekon affair.  The results were astounding. According to lists published in the Turkish media, recapped below, the court handed out 22 life sentences plus 1267 years, 11 months, and […]

Turkey

New Atlanticist

Aug 6, 2013

Obama’s Bad Bet on the Egyptian Military

By Rajan Menon

Egypt’s political chasm continues to widen following the military’s ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi, who, despite his many flaws and blunders, was the only democratically elected president in the country’s history.

North Africa Politics & Diplomacy

Trade in Action

Aug 6, 2013

Freeing Transatlantic Trade: The T-TIPping Point

By Garrett Workman

Speeches and Official Announcements Freeing Transatlantic Trade: The T-TIPping PointMartin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, fully supports TTIP and freeing transatlantic trade and investment. As he writes, TTIP could be an essential instrument to defend European and American democratic values and the free-market economic model. TTIP brings tangible benefits including €545 in average European […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
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