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The World Next Week: Will the Security Council Intervene in Syria?

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
U.N. Security Council members meet on the situation in Libya at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Security Council members meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I talked about the continued protests in Syria; the ten-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan; and the thirtieth anniversary of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s assassination.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110929_TWN…]

The highlights:

The New York Times considers the implications of Europe’s oil embargo on Syria, and the UN News Centre reports on top UN officials’ efforts to stem the violence. The San Francisco Chronicle discusses the disturbing upward trend in violence this year in Afghanistan while the New York Times carried an op-ed yesterday with a positive perspective on the direction of the war there. The Guardian offers a look back into its coverage of Sadat’s assassination thirty years ago, as does the New York Times. Steven Cook releases a great new book on The Struggle for Egypt.