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Sep 4, 2015

Pham: No Exit

By J. Peter Pham

Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham writes for US News and World Report on President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila prohibiting adopted children from leaving the country: 

Africa

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Sep 4, 2015

Pham: A Test for African Democracy—and International Commitment

By J. Peter Pham

Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham writes for The American Interest on the importance of the Guinea’s upcoming presidential elections: 

North & West Africa

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Sep 4, 2015

Vakhshouri on Foreign Investors in Iran

By Sara Vakhshouri

Energy Compass quotes Global Energy Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Sara Vakhshouri on foreign investment in Iran:

Energy & Environment Iran

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Sep 4, 2015

Aslund, Polyakova on US Sanctions against Russia

By Aslund and Polyakova

Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Resident Senior Fellow Anders Aslund and Associate Director Alina Polyakova join Voice of America Ukraine to discuss the widening of US sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine:

Russia Ukraine

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Sep 4, 2015

Aslund: Ukraine Needs a Radical but Sensible Tax Reform

By Anders Aslund

Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Resident Senior Fellow Anders Aslund writes for VoxUkraine on why Ukraine needs tax reform: 

Ukraine

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Sep 4, 2015

Vakhshouri on Foreign Investment in Iran

By Sara Vakhshouri

Energy Compass quotes Global Energy Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Sara Vakhshouri on foreign investments in Iran following the lifting of sanctions per the recently negotiated Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the P5+1:

Iran

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Sep 4, 2015

Ashooh: What the Rise of ISIS Tells Us About Donald Trump

By Jessica Ashooh

Deputy Director of the Middle East Strategy Task Force Jessica Ashooh writes for Foreign Policy on how both ISIS and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump give voice to troubling narratives of marginalization and disenchantment with the status quo:

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Sep 4, 2015

Slavin: Iran Deal, Saudi King in Washington, and Europe Refugee Crisis

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin moderates a discussion between CNN Politics Senior Reporter Stephen Collinson and National Journal Contributing Editor Tom DeFrank on Voice of America regarding President Obama’s Iran deal victory, Europe’s migrant crisis, and US politics:

Europe & Eurasia Iran

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Sep 3, 2015

Saab on Lebanon’s Garbage Crisis and Hezbollah

By Bilal Y Saab

Vice News quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Bilal Y. Saab on how Hezbollah is reacting to and affected by the protests in Lebanon: 

Middle East

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Sep 3, 2015

Pham on the Upcoming Moroccan Elections

By J. Peter Pham

French-language Maghreb Arabe Presse quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the significance of the upcoming elections in Morocco:

Morocco