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Mar 2, 2012

NATO Secretary General outlines Smart Defense proposals

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  In Chicago, I expect us to put Smart Defence firmly into practice through a package of multinational projects addressing key capability areas.

MENASource

Mar 2, 2012

On Sharia, Civil Society, and Religious Identity in Egypt: A Response to Khaled Saad

By Kurt Werthmuller

On February 27th, Khaled Saad, an Egyptian legal consultant at the American Bar Association-Rule of Law Initiative in Egypt, insightfully argued here in EgyptSource that ”the most immediate threat to religious freedom, if one exists, lies not in amending Article 2 [of the current Egyptian constitution, which identifies Islamic law as the principal source of […]

NATOSource

Mar 2, 2012

Rasmussen: ‘In good times and bad, NATO has been the best investment Allies have made’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  We cannot tell how long this economic turmoil will last. But its consequences will be with us for a long time to come.

NATO Security & Defense

NATOSource

Mar 2, 2012

UN Commission concludes NATO did not target civilians in Libya

By David Cenciotti, the Aviationist

From David Cenciotti, the Aviationist:  According to a report published in these hours by the UN Commission of inquiry on Libya, the coalition of NATO and non-NATO members, operating within Operation Unified Protector to enforce the UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973, may have violated the law of war in some air strikes

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2012

The Long Arm of the Volcker Rule

By Ben Carliner

The new Volcker Rule seeks to prevent banks that are ‘too big to fail’ from trading on their own account. The idea is that institutions that benefit from public guarantees like deposit insurance and the central banks’ lender of last resort function shouldn’t be allowed to make risky bets that will fall to the taxpayer […]

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2012

The Case for Arming Syria’s Opposition

By Stephen J. Hadley

The moral case for arming Syrians seeking their freedom has become overwhelming. The world has rarely seen such courage, fortitude and restraint. Despite an unrelenting crackdown by the Assad regime, brave Syrians have kept up their civil resistance campaign for 11 months. Despite systematic attacks by Syrian armed forces killing thousands and wounding tens of […]

Syria

NATOSource

Mar 2, 2012

U.S. should stay out of Syria’s conflict

By the Editors of the Los Angeles Times

From the Editors of the Los Angeles Times:  War is not something to blunder into blithely, and no country — no matter how powerful — can solve all the problems of all the countries in the world.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2012

Calm Israel, Contain Iran

By Barbara Slavin

Foreign policy experts and politicians will be scrutinizing US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week for signs of disagreement as they sequentially address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington.

NATOSource

Mar 1, 2012

As Europe becomes a ‘sanctions machine,’ it still lacks a strategy

By Charlemagne, the Economist

From Charlemagne, the Economist:  Hardly a meeting of foreign ministers passes without punitive measures against a brutal regime: import and investment bans, restrictions on financial dealings, hit-lists with hundreds of people stopped from entering the EU and having their assets frozen.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Mar 1, 2012

Video: Timeline for Choosing Constituent Assembly Starts Countdown to Polarization

By Mara Revkin

On March 1, an anonymous parliamentarian from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party revealed new details on the timeline and procedures for forming Egypt’s 100-member constituent assembly, a body that is bound by the military-decreed interim constitution to draft the country’s new charter.  The Constitutional Declaration issued by the ruling Supreme Council of the […]

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