Category: Blogs

Does America Still Want to Lead the World?

By Frederick Kempe

For all their bitter differences, President Obama and Governor Romney share one overwhelming challenge. Whoever is elected will face the growing reality that the greatest risk to global stability over the next 20 years may be the nature of America itself. Nothing – not Iranian or North Korean nuclear weapons, not violent extremists or Mideast […]

Presidential Disqualifications: Judicial Independence or SCAF Meddling?

By Tarek Radwan

Last week, the news that the Supreme Presidential Elections Commission (SPEC) had disqualified 10 candidates in Egypt’s race for the presidency dominated the headlines.  The decision barred the three most polarizing figures who had decided to run: Hazem Abu Ismail representing the Salafi bloc, Khairat al-Shater representing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), […]

NATO’s ‘bleak future of military marginalization and trans-Atlantic rancor’

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times: [N]o matter how important the stakes, European militaries are unable to conduct sustained air operations on their own, even in their own neighborhood.

Top News: Brotherhood Joins Calls for Mass Protest in Tahrir Square

By Mara Revkin

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party announced its intended participation in a mass demonstration planned for Friday April 20 that had originally been organized by April 6 and other secular groups citing as one of their grievances the Brotherhood’s alleged alliance with the SCAF. The April 6 Youth Movment and over 34 political groups have […]

The Russians are coming to Chicago! (maybe)

After participating in today’s meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen disclosed for the first time

Clinton warns Assad regime not to squander last chance to avoid ‘additional measures’

Although not on the official agenda of today’s meeting of NATO Foreign and Defense ministers, the continuing violence in Syria forced NATO leaders to discuss the issue and its impact on the alliance.

Top News: SPEC Rejects Appeal for Ten Disqualified Candidates

By Mara Revkin

Egypt’s Supreme Presidential Election Commission (SPEC) announced on April 17 its final decision to disqualify ten candidates from the presidential race, including the Salafi candidate Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail, Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Leader Khairat El-Shater and Mubarak’s former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman.

Egypt’s Constitution: The Crisis and a Proposed Exit / دستور مصر: الأزمة و رؤية للخروج منها

By Yussef Auf

Deep political contention has emerged over the creation of the Constituent Assembly — charged with drafting Egypt’s post-revolutionary constitution —  revealing with great clarity the many shortcomings of the transitional administration which has been in power since February 12, 2011. On the one hand, it has become evident to everyone at this point that the […]