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April 21, 2008
| Author: | Jason McLure |
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Must Read
In an interview with Newsweek's Jason McLure, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi discusses Ethiopia's exit plan, its archenemy Eritrea, and its alliance with the United States.
November 20, 2007
Samuel Assefa, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the United States interviewed by Robert McMahon, Deputy Editor
Interview
Ethiopia’s U.S. ambassador says his government needs more international help in securing Somalia and is wrongly blamed by Congress for rights abuses.
See more in Horn of Africa, Eritrea, Somalia, Democracy and Human Rights, Nation Building, International Organizations, International Peace and Security, Peacekeeping, Congress, Foreign Aid
October 3, 2007
Essential Documents
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See more in Democracy and Human Rights
Updated: August 28, 2007
Daily Analysis
Ethiopia is a staunch U.S. ally in the Horn of Africa. But its domestic policies raise questions about the wisdom of the partnership.
See more in Horn of Africa, Somalia, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Updated: November 1, 2007
| Authors: | Eben Kaplan, Associate Editor |
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Backgrounder
A profile of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a separatist group operating in eastern Ethiopia.
See more in Horn of Africa, Somalia, Energy, Society and Culture
Updated: April 30, 2007
Daily Analysis
Africa’s most volatile region appears to be coming apart at the seams. New outbreaks of violence in Somalia and Ethiopia raise fears of a wider war and create a perfect haven for terrorist groups.
See more in Somalia, International Peace and Security
December 15, 2006
| Speaker: | Terrence Lyons |
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Terrence Lyons, author of a new Council Special Report on conflict in the Horn of Africa, discusses the festering Somali and Ethiopian-Eritrean conflicts as they pertain to the security of the region.
See more in Horn of Africa, Eritrea
Updated: December 20, 2006
Daily Analysis
A long-simmering Ethiopia-Eritrea border conflict threatens the entire Horn of Africa, as troop deployments and other actions by the two rivals continue to fuel Somalia’s internal power struggle.
January 13, 2006
Daily Analysis
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, proposes sending a high-level team of Americans to the Ethiopia/Eritrea border to help settle the simmering border conflict there. Eritrea objects to the mission, questioning its legality and saying it would only accept rulings that forced Ethiopia to accept a border agreed to in peace talks after the last war.
See more in Horn of Africa, Eritrea, Peacekeeping
November 14, 2005
| Author: | Lionel Beehner |
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Backgrounder
See more in Horn of Africa, Eritrea, Wars and Warfare
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Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
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In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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