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New Atlanticist

Nov 15, 2018

Treasury right to sanction Saudis in response to Khashoggi killing

By Samantha Sultoon

Treasury’s use of the GloMag sanctions authority exemplifies precisely what that authority was created for—it is a targeted action intended to punish specific targets without broader negative implications. 

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion Saudi Arabia

New Atlanticist

Nov 15, 2018

United States sanctions seventeen Saudi officials over Khashoggi murder

By Ashish Kumar Sen

“While sanctions are an important way of sending a message, they are also a blunt instrument that authoritarian leaders find ways to work around," said Richard LeBaron, a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion Human Rights

SyriaSource

Nov 15, 2018

Frederic C. Hof’s remarks on Syria at the World Affairs Council

By Frederic C. Hof

Syria is a country that’s been an important part of my life since I was 16-years-old, when I went off to Damascus during the summer between my junior and senior years of high school as an American Field Service exchange student. I lived with a Syrian family, won lifelong Syrian friends, and learned a lot about a country that had, for a century, sent many of its best and brightest to America.

Syria

New Atlanticist

Nov 15, 2018

Quiz: Summits and Brexit

By Atlantic Council

Theresa May faces more obstacles as she heads for the Brexit finish line. Summits were held from Singapore to Paris to Sicily. Were you keeping track of the week’s top world news stories? Take these seven questions and prove you were paying attention.

UkraineAlert

Nov 15, 2018

How We are Exposing Foreign Interference in Ukraine’s Elections

By John E. Herbst

Western democracies are under threat from outside meddling, and Ukraine is the testing ground for this interference. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s persistent efforts to influence the domestic politics of his neighbors and countries well beyond Russia’s borders have posed enormous challenges in Europe and across the Atlantic.

Russia Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Nov 15, 2018

Electronic jamming between Russia and NATO is par for the course in the future, but it has its risky limits

By Brooks Tigner

“These circumstances suggest that Russia sees NATO activities as an under-the-screen opportunity to test their jamming and other disruptive capabilities," said Jamie Shea, retired assistant secretary general of the NATO Emerging Threats Division.

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IranSource

Nov 15, 2018

Demanding Iran’s Withdrawal From Syria Doesn’t Make Sense

By Albert B. Wolf

“We’re not going to leave as long as Iranian troops are outside Iranian borders and that includes Iranian proxies and militias,” National Security Advisor John Bolton said on September 24. Similar rhetoric was followed by James Jeffery, the State Department’s special representative for Syria, on September 30. Then on October 27, Brett McGurk, US Special […]

Iran Syria

MENASource

Nov 14, 2018

The United States should not get involved in Libya’s civil war

By Hafed Al-Ghwell

An unmistakable sense of despair and gloom accompanies most news reports and literature on the state of affairs in Libya after 2011. The Arab Spring was meant to usher in a period of unprecedented change after decades of notoriously undemocratic leadership across the Middle East and North Africa. Yet, seven years later, there has been very little positive development in terms of transparency, accountability, and inclusivity in the Arab world.

Libya

New Atlanticist

Nov 14, 2018

May’s Brexit deal: with Cabinet nod secured, next stop parliament

By David A. Wemer

Based on early reports on the details of the draft deal, the United Kingdom would remain in a customs union with the EU throughout a transition period and until there is an agreement on a permanent trade deal.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 14, 2018

The evolving wildfire threat: fewer, larger fires

By Samuel Jeffrey

While this year’s most intense fires have captured national attention as the largest, most destructive, and deadliest in California history, the total number of fires occurring annually in the United States has actually declined gradually in recent decades. 

Resilience United States and Canada
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