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July 23, 2014

Wars and Conflict
TWE Remembers: Austria-Hungary Issues an Ultimatum to Serbia

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. That adage applies to governments as well as to people. A case in point is the ultimatum that Austria gave Serbia on July 23, 1914. Austrian offic…

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

May 2, 2014

Lebanon
Weekend Listening/Viewing/Reading: Satire in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s "Garden," and Lebanese Relief Workers

Karl Sharro discusses Lebanese politics and the role of satire in political analysis of the Middle East on Karl Morand’s Middle East Week Podcast.   Pascal Menoret’s photographic journey of the cit…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 6, 2013

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Syria’s “Moderates,” Egypt’s Officers, and Tunisia’s Islamists

Karl Sharro provides, in comical fashion, a guide to Syria’s moderate rebels. Sara Salem reviews the Egyptian military vis-à-vis the 2011 uprising. Alaya Allani argues that Tunisia’s Islamists prom…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

August 12, 2014

United States
Guest Post: A Cold Warrior’s Foreign Policy Advice for Obama

Harry Oppenheimer is a research associate for national security at the Council on Foreign Relations. The conviction of John Foster Dulles—Secretary of State under Eisenhower in the 1950s, shaper of …

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Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

January 23, 2015

Yemen
Weekend Reading: After the Uprisings, Egypt’s Despotism, and Yemen’s Meltdown

Karl Sharro presents a satirically “simple” diagram of the Arab uprisings and their aftermath. Amro Ali looks at how the citizen contributes to the sustainability of despotism in Egypt. Susanne Dah…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates