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Mar 11, 2013

Syria’s Opposition: Ready or Not?

By Frederic C. Hof

As the Syrian uprising approaches its second year surely it is fair, with the passage of so much time, to pose a question: what good is an opposition that is not prepared to govern? 

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

MENASource

Mar 11, 2013

Top News: Islamist political parties form electoral alliance

By Egypt Source

 Seven Islamist political parties have launched the Umma Alliance (Nation Alliance) announcing their collaboration to protect the "achievements of the January 25 Revolution" and stand against those who interrupt the "constitutional path that allows people to choose their ruler."  GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Presidential source: Morsi to call for new national dialogue President Mohamed Morsi will […]

MENASource

Mar 9, 2013

Egypt’s Police Strike and the Need for Reform

By Tarek Radwan

A long-brewing battle within Egypt’s ministry of interior has culminated into a potentially indefinite countrywide strike by police officers. The build up to this massive breakdown in the command and control structure inside the government’s primary security apparatus began as a few scattered protests across the different governorates of Egypt. Some of the police conscripts […]

NATOSource

Mar 8, 2013

Hagel warns US and allies to remain focused on mission in Afghanistan: ‘We are still at war’

By Lolita C. Baldor, AP

From Lolita C. Baldor, AP:  Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghanistan Friday for his first visit as Pentagon chief, saying that there are plenty of challenges ahead as NATO hands over the country’s security to the Afghans.

MENASource

Mar 8, 2013

Off the Egyptian Press: To Boycott or Not?

By Andrew Ver Steegh

Reactions to the National Salvation Front’s decision last week to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections – which have since been delayed due to legal wrangling – generally followed well-established rhetorical lines. Supporters of the boycott lamented President Morsi’s mismanagement, the ‘brotherhoodization’ of the country and saw a boycott as a way to deny the current […]

MENASource

Mar 8, 2013

Top News: Egypt Police Strike, Want ‘Out of Politics’

By Egypt Source

Policemen across Egypt staged a strike on Thursday to demand the resignation of the interior minister, saying they no longer wanted to be used as a political tool, security officials said.  GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Egypt’s opposition senses chance in election debacle To Egypt’s opposition, a court ruling throwing the electoral process into limbo offers an opportunity to […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 8, 2013

Our Arctic Strategy Deficit

By William Edwards

The United States is juggling multiple crises at home and around the world. Operating in crisis mode has meant a lack of attention to over-the-horizon issues, not least of which are in the Arctic, where there is a looming fight for territorial expansion driven by large amounts of untapped oil and natural gas resources in […]

Europe & Eurasia Northern Europe

MENASource

Mar 8, 2013

Can Syria Be Saved?

By Frederic C. Hof

Syria’s descent into state failure now seems unchecked and inevitable. Nearly two years of turmoil have produced over a million refugees, with at least two million more internally displaced. Fighting rages on between a family-based regime willing to destroy the country rather than yield power, and a disjointed opposition whose fragmentation makes victory and defeat […]

Syria

NATOSource

Mar 8, 2013

Pay up for NATO or shut it down

By Philip Stephens, Financial Times

From Philip Stephens, Financial Times:  The absence of war does not deprive the alliance of a raison d’être. If the west has learnt anything about the post-cold war era, it should be that life is unpredictable. The Middle East is in flames, Iran is building a bomb and jihadist extremism has been spreading into Africa.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 7, 2013

North Korean Albatross Around China’s Neck

By Robert A. Manning

North Korea’s recent nuclear test was a stark reminder to China that the days of a “lips and teeth” relationship with Pyongyang, of Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung half a century ago, are long gone. Nuclear test after nuclear test, missile test after missile test, Pyongyang has time after time ignored Beijing’s pleas not to […]

Korea National Security
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