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NATOSource

Nov 15, 2011

Russian envoy visiting NATO capitals to warn of retaliatory “military steps” against missile defense system

By Kim Sengupta, the Independent

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New Atlanticist

Nov 15, 2011

The Strategic Influence Game 5: A German Europe or a European Germany?

By Julian Lindley-French

Germany has never found the leadership of Europe easy to attain or to execute. And yet Germany today finds itself the unrivalled leader of the European Union. Can Germany for once get leadership right? Only at the very 1871 beginning of modern Germany’s uneasy existence was Berlin led by a man who grasped both the […]

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NATOSource

Nov 15, 2011

Russia Can Be a NATO Ally

By Steven Pifer, the Moscow Times

From Steven Pifer, the Moscow Times:  The major obstacle blocking missile defense cooperation stems from Moscow’s demand for a legal guarantee that U.S. interceptors would not be directed against Russian strategic missiles.

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MENASource

Nov 15, 2011

Charting Egypt’s New Political Terrain

By Mara Revkin

Jacopo Carbonari has shared via The Arabist a schematic diagram that sheds some much-needed light on the relative ideological orientation of Egypt’s political parties. In addition to positioning the parties along two axes — religious/secular and left/right — the map shows the distribution of parties among the four major coalitions: 1) the FJP-dominated Democratic Alliance; […]

New Atlanticist

Nov 15, 2011

To Save Europe, Italy Must Defy Its History

By Alexei Monsarrat

Italy has a nearly 3,000-year history of violent and costly attempts at cohesion. Now, its people must take unity to a totally new level, coming together over painful reforms that will make or break the world’s eighth-largest economy – and the euro currency that holds much of Europe together. The Nov. 12 resignation of Italian […]

NATOSource

Nov 15, 2011

US purchasing entire fleet of British Harrier jets

By Christopher P. Cavas, Vago Muradian and Andrew Chuter, Marine Times

From Christopher P. Cavas, Vago Muradian and Andrew Chuter, Marine Times:  The Navy and Marine Corps have agreed to buy Britain’s entire decommissioned fleet of 74 Harrier jump jets, along with engines and spare parts

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New Atlanticist

Nov 14, 2011

The US Can’t Afford to Pass on Yemen

By Danya Greenfield

In the wake of the winds of change that swept from Tunis to Cairo and beyond, frustrated Yemenis took to the streets to demand an end to corruption, responsive government, and respect for their basic political and social rights. For more than nine months, mass protests have spread through the country and millions have repeatedly […]

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New Atlanticist

Nov 14, 2011

Black Swans Attack

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

“All our governments are insolvent. “No level of taxation could make them solvent. “So we must cut the source of our insolvency.

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MENASource

Nov 14, 2011

Monitoring Egypt’s Chaotic Electoral System

By Ahmed Morsy

Egypt is preparing for its first real multi-party parliamentary elections without the grip of Hosni Mubarak and his abolished National Democratic Party (NDP), ousted over nine months ago. The electoral law finally announced on October 8 has made the Egyptian electoral system one of a kind: with 2/3 of parliament to be elected via proportional […]

MENASource

Nov 14, 2011

MB or FJP? The Brotherhood’s Branding Problem

By Hafsa Halawa

 Much has been said and written since January about the influence, power and fear of the Muslim Brotherhood and its role in Egyptian politics post-Mubarak. A well organized, structured and financed organization that has grown considerably in strength since its establishment by Hassan El Banna in the late 1920s, the Brotherhood and its official political […]

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