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NATOSource

Jan 24, 2012

The End of the U.S-Turkey Alliance?

By Ted Galen Carpenter, the National Interest

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jan 24, 2012

Deal or no Deal: Is Egypt Headed Towards a Power Sharing Agreement Between the SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood?

By Dina Shehata

The final results of the People’s Assembly elections have been formally announced, confirming that Islamists now enjoy an overwhelming majority in the first freely elected parliament in Egypt since the 1952 revolution.

New Atlanticist

Jan 24, 2012

Civil Disobedience in Cyberspace: A Tale of Two Online Protests

By Jason Healey

Cyberspace brings us ever-changing technologies and resulting social norms, some of which are often in tension with more traditional conventions. Nowhere is this tension more apparent than between intellectual property rights and free sharing of information online. Two recent online protests – one criminal and largely a failure, the other legal and successful – illustrate the […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

MENASource

Jan 24, 2012

Egypt’s Revolution at an Inflection Point

By Michele Dunne

New Atlanticist

Jan 23, 2012

What to do about Iran

By R. Nicholas Burns

What to do about an increasingly truculent and threatening Iran is now the most important foreign policy challenge of 2012.

Iran

FutureSource

Jan 23, 2012

In Search of Sand Piles and Butterflies

By Banning Garrett

“Disruptive change” that produces “strategic shocks” has become an increasing concern for policymakers, shaken by momentous events of the last couple of decades that were not on their radar screens – from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the 2008 financial crisis and the “Arab Spring.”

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2012

NATO ambassador previews Chicago summit

By Paisley Dodds, the AP

From Paisley Dodds, the AP:  The U.S. Ambassador to NATO said Monday one of the key goals of an upcoming summit is to ensure the alliance is prepared for new threats – comments that came as Iran threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz in response to an EU oil blockage.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jan 23, 2012

Capitalism Sowing Seeds of its Own Destruction

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

“Capitalism in Crisis,” the front-page banner headline shouted. “The code that forms a bar to harmony” was the inside-page headline, suggesting a secret code that concealed a sinister plot to keep the rich richer and the poor poorer. “The enrichment of bankers, corporate chiefs, flash traders and their cronies is testing tolerance of inequality,” said […]

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2012

France Offers Heron for NATO UAV program

By Pierre Tran, Defense News

From Pierre Tran, Defense News:  France is offering the Heron TP as its contribution in kind to the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance program, but technical and financial problems related to adapting the medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAV to French standards are holding up a deal with Dassault and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)

Drones Technology & Innovation

MENASource

Jan 23, 2012

Video: Official Election Results and First Parliamentary Session

By Mara Revkin

Egypt’s newly elected 508-member People’s Assembly convened for its first session on January 23. New parliamentarians took their constitutional oaths berore voting to elect a new parliamentary speaker (Brotherhood member Saad al-Katatny, winning with 399 votes) and two deputies (voting is still underway). Official results for party list-races were released on January 21, confirming the Islamist […]

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