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October 17, 2023
China
China’s Belt and Road Initiative Enters Its Second Decade: Which Leaders Went to Beijing to Celebrate with Xi Jinping?
High-level attendance at this year’s Belt and Road forum is down, but BRI still has support in the Global South and will be used by Beijing to strengthen the Global South as a counterweight to the U…
December 29, 2023
2023 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2023
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
April 19, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Iran’s Negotiations, Syria’s Friends, and Egypt’s Elections
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Saturday authorizing the deployment of a thirty-person monitoring mission to oversee t…
July 31, 2013
Politics and Government
Egypt’s Nexus of Power
My dear friend, Nervana Mahmoud, an Egyptian-born doctor in the UK, is a keen observer of Egyptian politics. Her article below discusses power dynamics among Egypt’s principal political actors and h…
May 17, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: Egyptians Pick a President, NATO Meets in Chicago, and Baghdad Hosts Iran Talks
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the presidential election in Egypt; the NATO summit in Chicago; and the P5+1’s talks with Iran in Baghdad. [audio: http://www.cfr.org/c…
January 30, 2012
United States
Embassy Refuge in Egypt?
There is no better summary of how U.S.-Egyptian relations have changed than news stories reporting that "a number of Americans whom Egyptian authorities have been barred from leaving the country have…