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Sep 11, 2014

Column: Coalition Against Islamic State Must Include Iran

By Barbara Slavin

President Barack Obama is right to focus on the responsibility of the Sunni Muslim world to attack and expunge the cancer that is the militant group calling itself the Islamic State (IS). The group’s perversion of Islam in the service of its barbaric goals needs to be confronted first and foremost by those for whom […]

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Sep 11, 2014

“Obama’s battle plan”

By Nicholas Burns

Obama’s foreign policy needs conviction of leadership IT’S NO secret that President Obama has had a troubled year in foreign policy. Critics from left, right, and center have lamented a global strategy lacking in toughness, strategic direction, and results. During the past few months, many of America’s closest friends have openly worried about America’s leadership […]

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Sep 4, 2014

Joshua Meservey on The Flechas: Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola

By Joshua Meservey

Atlantic Council Africa Center Assistant Director Joshua Meservey authored a book review of The Flechas: Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965-1974 for the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the Middle East and Africa.

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Sep 4, 2014

Column: Israel’s Settlement Push Damages Peace Chances

By Barbara Slavin

Barely a week after reaching a semi-durable cease-fire in a seven-week war that killed more than 2,000 Palestinians and prompted virulent new expressions of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe, the Israeli government announced that it was seizing nearly 1,000 acres of land near Bethlehem for expansion of Jewish settlements. If carried out, the confiscation […]

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Sep 3, 2014

Building a Pluralist Future for the Internet

By Alexander Klimburg

This Week’s Internet Conference in Istanbul Follows an Historic Debate at Brazil’s NETmundial  “History,” John W. Gardner reputedly said, “never looks like history when you are living through it.” Maybe that is why one of the recent years’ biggest events in shaping the future of the Internet got so little attention recently. Global news media […]

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Sep 2, 2014

Tackling Today’s Challenges

By Damon Wilson

Conflict and bloodshed on the periphery of the NATO region must be dealt with head-on at this year’s summit if the Alliance is to remain relevant to its members’ interests, argues Damon Wilson As NATO leaders gather in Wales, transatlantic security faces the most serious challenges it has confronted since the end of the Cold […]

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Aug 31, 2014

Column: Saudi-Iran Meeting Could Boost Fight Against Islamic State

By Barbara Slavin

To say that there are a lot of moving pieces in the Middle East these days is certainly an understatement. From Libya to Yemen, Gaza to Iraq, outside powers are intervening in complex confrontations that pit religious fundamentalists against secularists, dictators against democrats and ethnic minorities against each other.

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Aug 31, 2014

Three Critical Tests for NATO Leaders in Wales

By Nicholas Burns

Ukraine, the Middle East and Afghanistan test alliance’s future, writes Nicholas Burns When allied leaders meet in Wales at the end of this week, they will confront three critical tests for Nato’s future. Given all that has happened in the past half-year alone, these three challenges – Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, the disastrous unravelling […]

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Aug 29, 2014

“Why do some hostages die, and some are released?”

By Nicholas Burns

THIS LAST week’s deeply contrasting stories of two New Englanders caught in the Middle East’s maelstrom of violence — the savage murder of James Foley and the joyous release from captivity of Peter Theo Curtis — point to a central question: Why do some hostages die while others are released?

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Aug 28, 2014

The Disintegration of Libya

By Ricardo René Larémont

Bottom Line Up Front: Opposing militias are battling for the control of Libya among the worst violence since the fall of the Qadhafi regime in 2011; a civil war which may continue for years has begun The Libyan government’s mistakes early during the transition process after the fall of Qadhafi included delegation of policing authority […]

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