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Jun 12, 2012

Clinton: Russia sending Syria attack helicopters

By Bradley Klapper, the AP

From Bradley Klapper, the AP:  The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s regime and warned that the Arab country’s 15-month conflict could become even deadlier.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jun 12, 2012

Top News: Non-Islamists Threaten Second Walkout from Constituent Assembly

By Tarek Radwan

A mere 24 hours before electing the 100 members of Egypt’s Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution, The Egyptian Bloc parties – which include the Free Egyptians party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and the leftist Tagammu Party – announced on Monday that they would withdraw from the body so as to allow […]

NATOSource

Jun 12, 2012

Investigating NATO’s response to reported civilian casualties

By Marc Garlasco, the Washington Post

From Marc Garlasco, the Washington Post:  I investigated the organization’s actions in Libya last year while at the same time working with the United Nations’ civilian protection office in Afghanistan.

MENASource

Jun 12, 2012

Egypt’s Constitutional Meltdown: Take 2

By Salem Mostafa Kamel

Just twenty-four hours after the passage of a new draft law meant to facilitate the formation of Egypt’s 100-member Constituent Assembly, liberals and leftists are accusing Islamists of monopolizing the constitution-writing process for a second time. The first attempt at forming a Constituent Assembly in March fell through after a walkout by non-Islamist and minority […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 12, 2012

Day of Russia or Day of the Kremlin?

By Julian Lindley-French

Today is the Day of Russia. It marks the moment in 1992 when the Declaration on Russian National Sovereignty was adopted by the Russian Parliament and Russia re-emerged from the wreckage of the Soviet Union. Back then there was much hope both in Russia and the rest of the free world that this enormous, great […]

Russia

New Atlanticist

Jun 12, 2012

Are the Financial Markets Really Europe’s Savior?

By Frederick Kempe

If the euro is saved, the much-maligned power of global financial markets will deserve much of the credit. The conventional wisdom among many on the intellectual left is that unbridled financial players threaten to destroy the European Union, one of history’s noblest, war-ending projects. The truth, however, is something else. To be sure, speculators lack […]

Economy & Business

MENASource

Jun 11, 2012

New Issue Brief: “Beyond the Ballot Box: Egypt’s Constitutional Challenge”

By Mara Revkin

All eyes are on the ballot box as Egypt prepares for the second round of the first post-Mubarak presidential election on June 16-17, a controversial run-off between the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP, the party founded by the Muslim Brotherhood) candidate Mohamed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak’s former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, two of the most […]

MENASource

Jun 11, 2012

Egypt’s Pivotal Ten Days

By Michele Dunne

It is no exaggeration to say that events over the next ten days will determine whether Egypt’s troubled transition is headed into calmer waters or into a vortex.  If all goes well, by June 21 Egypt will have a new president recognized as freely elected and a 100-member constituent assembly that will begin the long-delayed […]

NATOSource

Jun 11, 2012

How should the U.S. pick its allies?

By Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy

From Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy:  What if we were starting from scratch, and doing a "zero-based" assessment of U.S. alliance options?

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 11, 2012

NATO Chief Sees Parallels Between Syria and Balkans

By Paul Geitner, the New York Times

From Paul Geitner, the New York Times:  The secretary general of the NATO alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Monday that the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s illustrated what might befall Syria unless Russia and the West agreed on a  “unified, clear message” to the Syrian government to stop the violence.

United Kingdom
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