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January 12, 2012

Politics and Government
Egypt: When Good Is Better Than Perfect

  Leila Fadel of the Washington Post has a very interesting article yesterday about a possible Muslim Brotherhood-Supreme Council of the Armed Forces deal that would give the Officers immunity aga…

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

September 9, 2022

Myanmar
Why Democracy in Southeast Asia Will Worsen in 2023

Despite Southeast Asia's significant democratic erosion in 2022, upcoming elections and other political developments in 2023 could be even more detrimental to democracy in the region.

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Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

October 14, 2011

United States
You Might Have Missed: Assassination Plot, Drone Virus, and the Syrian Uprising

U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysts work at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia, on May 10, 2010 (Hyungwon Kang/Courtesy Reuters). - Unite…

U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysts work at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia, on May 10, 2010 (Hyungwon Kang/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

January 10, 2014

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Why Shiites Fight, Egyptian Time Warp, and Militia Madness in Libya

Rodger Shanahan says that Shiites fighting in Syria are doing so not for sectarian reasons, but rather for reasons of geopolitics and self-preservation. Mohammed Fadel argues that Egypt has returned…

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

April 29, 2016

Middle East and North Africa
Weekend Reading: Kurdish Linguistics, Egypt’s Repressive Complacency, and Music and Pluralism in Jordan

Reading selections for the weekend of April 29, 2016.

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