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Jan 17, 2013

NATO officer: ISAF not preparing ‘zero option,’ total troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Peter Spiegel, Financial Times

From Peter Spiegel, Financial Times:  Allied commanders in Afghanistan have not been asked to prepare a “zero option” for troop levels after the US-led mission concludes next year

NATOSource

Jan 17, 2013

Dempsey and NATO defense chiefs plan Afghan transition

By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service

From Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service: With just 23 months until the end of the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan, Afghan forces are poised to move into the lead operationally

MENASource

Jan 17, 2013

Top News: Islamist MPs to rubber stamp a new election law Thursday

By Egypt Source

The 270-member upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, today began debating the new controversial election law, approved by the council’s Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee Tuesday, with the majority of Islamists expected to rubber-stamp the legislation at the end of a plenary meeting Thursday.

New Atlanticist

Jan 17, 2013

Pivot Toward Pacific not Away from Middle East

By Aaron Burgstein

Since the announced “pivot” to the Pacific, much hand-wringing and consternation has focused on what it means for the United States’ security relationships with Europe.

Middle East National Security

NATOSource

Jan 16, 2013

Russia’s Deputy PM warns Norway on missile defense participation

By Thomas Nilsen, BarentsObserver

From Thomas Nilsen, BarentsObserver:  It was last Thursday Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said to BarentsObserver that he was worried about the Cold War rhetoric. . . . “A language that remains of Cold War rhetoric is used too often. That worries me.

NATOSource

Jan 16, 2013

NATO Stuck in Kosovo

By Laurence Norman, Wall Street Journal

From Laurence Norman, Wall Street Journal:  Fourteen years after North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops first entered Kosovo to end fighting between ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians, there is still no “Mission Accomplished” sign in sight.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jan 16, 2013

Shinzo Abe’s ASEAN Tour Stresses Regional Tension

By Robert Manning

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s trip to key ASEAN states Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand this week is a sign of the times in East Asia, one of tense Sino-Japanese relations, geopolitical competition, and strategic counterbalancing.

China Japan

New Atlanticist

Jan 16, 2013

Obama Bullying Could Backfire

By Julian Lindley-French

A week ago, US Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon warned of the dangers of a British referendum on its EU membership, none so subtly hinting that the Special Relationship would be diminished if Britain left the EU. 

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Jan 16, 2013

My Enemy is Injustice – A Résumé of Limited Revolutionary Credentials

By Wael Eskandar

Like all Egyptians I was disenchanted by both opposition and ruler. I never queued up to vote and never joined a party. I was nothing more than an Egyptian, degraded as that may be. I have no tolerance for extremism and that is why I am appalled by the continued efforts of a patriarchal society […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 16, 2013

Mali and Afghanistan: Uncanny Parallels

By Peter Pham

Analogies in international affairs are fraught with peril, but there is no denying the parallels between the situation in Afghanistan in the months and years leading up to 9/11 and recent developments in Mali.

Afghanistan Sahel
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