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November 14, 2013

United States
Red Star Over Cairo?

When I heard that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his colleague Sergei Shoigu, the defense minister, were to visit Cairo, I dusted off my copies of Mohammed Hassanein Heikal’s The Sphinx a…

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July 9, 2012

Istanbul and Cairo

I will be traveling to, and blogging from, Istanbul and Cairo over the course of the next two weeks. Hope you all are enjoying the summer so far!

Istanbul-and-Cairo

January 2, 2024

Peru
The Organized Crime Threat to Latin American Democracies

Governments have learned to manage many threats, but they are failing to curb the growing power of organized crime.

Photo of Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori attending a trial as a witness in 2018

September 12, 2012

Several Questions on Cairo and Benghazi

I commented this morning at the National Review web site on the attacks in Cairo and Benghazi. My questions include, on Cairo: Why was police protection not provided until it was too late, given tha…

May 10, 2024

Digital Policy
Cyber Week in Review: May 10, 2024

State Department releases digital diplomacy strategy; Microsoft bans police from using AI facial recognition; sixty eight companies sign CISA pledge; researchers discover whale alphabet; Microsoft in…

People walk past a poster simulating facial recognition software at the Security China 2018 exhibition on public safety and security in Beijing, China on October 24, 2018

February 1, 2011

Impressions from Cairo

Protesters take part in an anti-Mubarak protest at Tahrir square in Cairo. (Suhaib Salem/courtesy Reuters) Isobel Coleman, director of CFR’s Program on Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy and seni…

Protesters take part in an anti-Mubarak protest at Tahrir square in Cairo.