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Apr 25, 2013

Africa’s Global Advantage

By Adrienne Chuck

Last week, finance ministers and central bankers from around the world gathered in Washington for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund semi-annual spring meetings to promote sustainable and equitable growth. Six years after the beginning of the global financial crisis, prospects for a strong recovery are still not optimistic; conversations for the most part […]

Africa Economy & Business

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2013

Rasmussen desires to ‘strengthen the collective political commitment’ to NATO

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish Institute for International Studies

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish Institute for International Studies:  There is no doubt that the economic crisis is challenging for the defense ministers, and all of the alliance.

Economy & Business

MENASource

Apr 25, 2013

Top News: Hagel Meets Morsi, Sisi in Egypt, Reaffirms Military Ties With Egypt

By Egypt Source

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel underscored Washington’s military commitment to Egypt on Wednesday and pledged American support as Egyptian forces evolve to address new and shifting security threats, U.S. defense officials said. "I wanted to stop in Egypt to … reaffirm American commitment to Egypt’s emerging democracy, encourage the democratic and economic reforms that are […]

NATOSource

Apr 25, 2013

China and France: ‘We can drive the world’

By AP

From AP:  China’s President Xi Jinping and France’s President Francois Hollande pledged to push for a world free of domination by any superpower Thursday as the French leader visited the Chinese capital on a mission to boost trade amid his country’s worsening economic woes.

MENASource

Apr 25, 2013

Syria and Geneva: No Precondition, but a Certain Result

By Frederic C. Hof

US President Barack Obama’s Syria-related objective remains one of negotiated political transition consistent with what the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (P5) decided in Geneva in June 2012. It is important, therefore, to understand what was actually agreed.

Syria

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

U.S. and its allies ‘have over-invested in NATO’

By Nancy Walbridge Collins, New York Times

From Nancy Walbridge Collins, New York Times:  NATO was the most successful military alliance in the 20th century, accomplishing its significant mission without bloodshed.

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

Transform NATO into a defense community within the EU

By Dmitri Trenin, New York Times

From Dmitri Trenin, New York Times:  If the Atlantic alliance were disbanded, European defense policies could be renationalized

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

NATO ‘remains a cornerstone of stability’

By Camille Grand, New York Times

From Camille Grand, New York Times:  The alliance must also address the serious challenges associated with fiscal austerity as defense spending is rising almost everywhere except in Europe and the United States.

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

NATO remains vital

By Xenia Dormandy, New York Times

From Xenia Dormandy, New York Times:  What are the security challenges NATO members face today and in the coming decades, and do we have sufficient commonalities to harness the interests, will and capacity to address them through NATO?

Cybersecurity Energy & Environment

NATOSource

Apr 24, 2013

Time for the United States to leave NATO

By Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times

From Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times:  The United States has done its job and ought to go home. Convert NATO into a European partnership, wholly owned and operated by Europeans

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