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April 1, 2011

Jordan
Friday Roundup 4.1

A street vendor sells nuts during a demonstration against the government in Amman (Muhammad Hamed/Courtesy Reuters) Tabler on Syria Assad: Reformer no more? What is it about assassinations? MEI e…

Friday Roundup 4.1
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

April 8, 2011

Defense and Security
Friday File: Who Will Succeed Bob Gates as Secretary of Defense?

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen enter the auditorium before Oabma's speech about the conflict in Libya at the National Defense University on March 28, 2011. (Larry Down…

U.S. Secretary of Defense Gates and Admiral Mullen enter the auditorium before Oabma’s speech about the conflict in Libya at the National Defense University on March 28, 2011.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

June 30, 2011

China
In Southeast Asia, Big Dams Raise Big Concerns

A view from upstream of Malaysia's Bakun dam, in the inland of the eastern state of Sarawak on Borneo island, December 11, 2003. (Bazuki Muhammad/Courtesy Reuters) This is a guest post by Prashanth …

A view from upstream of Malaysia’s Bakun dam, in the inland of the eastern state of Sarawak on Borneo island, December 11, 2003.
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

July 8, 2011

Turkey
Weekend Reading: Regional Tensions on the Rise

Syrian men living in Jordan shout slogans against Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad during a demonstration in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman (Muhammad Hamed/Courtesy Reuters) The Sandmonkey…

Weekend Reading: Regional Tensions on the Rise
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 30, 2011

Military Operations
Targeted Killings: The Death of Anwar al-Awlaki

Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, gives a religious lecture in an unknown location (Ho New/Courtesy Reuters). Earlier today, the government of Yemen’s defe…

Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda’s Yemen-based wing, gives a religious lecture in an unknown location on September 30, 2011 (Ho New/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action