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Jul 8, 2013

Europe in Search of a Global Strategy

By Emma Bonino, Radoslaw Sikorski, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil and Carl Bildt, European Voice

From Emma Bonino, Radoslaw Sikorski, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil and Carl Bildt, European Voice:  The time has come to engage in a new strategic discussion, taking into account the immense changes in Europe and the rest of the world during the last decade.

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New Atlanticist

Jul 8, 2013

Egyptian Democracy 2.0?

By Julian Lindley-French

In a master-class of under-stated British diplomatic fudgery Foreign Secretary (and fellow Yorkshireman) William Hague said of the Egyptian Army’s ‘soft coup,’ “It’s happened, so we will have to recognize the situation will move on.”  Implicit in that statement is recognition that if Egypt is to create Egyptian democracy 2.0 one would not ideally start from […]

North Africa Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Jul 8, 2013

Revelation of Extensive Electronic Spying by French Intelligence

By Jacques Follorou et Franck Johannès, Le Monde

From Jacques Follorou et Franck Johannès, Le Monde:  If the revelations about the American espionage program Prism set off a chorus of indignation in Europe, France itself protested only weakly.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 8, 2013

Egypt: A Coup Is What it Is

By Rajan Menon

On Wednesday, Egypt’s military, long the country’s most powerful political institution and an outfit with a massive economic empire, deposed Mohamed Morsi, the only Egyptian president ever to attain office by winning an election in which all political parties could compete on an equal footing.

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New Atlanticist

Jul 8, 2013

Islam Is Not the Solution to What Ails the Middle East

By Barbara Slavin

During the decades when Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was a barely tolerated opposition party, it campaigned against the reigning secular autocrats under the banner, “Islam is the solution.” With the military’s removal on Jul. 3 of the Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi, the region’s oldest exemplar of political Islam has lost its best and perhaps only chance […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 8, 2013

Would an IMF Program Have Saved Morsi?

By Mohsin Khan

The disintegrating Egyptian economy is cited by most observers as one of the important factors in the massive protests in Tahrir Square that led to the military intervention and removal of Mohammed Morsi on July 3. The generally-accepted view is that the Morsi government which took power in July 2012 had not been able to […]

MENASource

Jul 8, 2013

Top News: Bahaa al-Din Offered Egypt’s PM Job, ElBaradei Set to be Appointed VP

Violent clashes that led to at least fifty-one deaths in front of Egypt’s Republican Guard compound on Monday will not derail efforts to form an interim government, presidency spokesman Ahmed al-Muslimani said. Social Democratic lawyer Ziad Bahaa al-Din is likely to be appointed interim prime minister of Egypt under a deal emerging among the country’s new political […]

MENASource

Jul 8, 2013

Working Group on Egypt Issues Statement on Egypt’s Democratic Future

Amidst concerns over continued violence following the Egyptian military’s ouster of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3, the Working Group on Egypt, co-chaired by Michele Dunne, has issued a statement urging the United States to apply the law suspending military and economic aid to Egypt; to abandon its long practice of building up its relations […]

MENASource

Jul 8, 2013

Top News: Death Toll in Cairo Shooting Rises to More than Fifty, Says Emergency Services

The death toll in violence at the Cairo headquarters of the Republican Guard on Monday rose to fifty-one with 435 injured, the head of Egypt’s emergency services said. 

MENASource

Jul 8, 2013

The Case for Lebanon’s Stability: Video Exclusive

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE While the world is fixated on the civil war destroying Syria, there is a sense of carelessness and complacency over the fate of Lebanon. In part, this is because the country has survived multiple crises in the past, and is presumably able to survive yet another one. There is also a tendency to […]

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