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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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September 24, 2012
Defense and Security
Ask the Experts: Do Targeted Killings Work?
The United States did not always carry out targeted killings (or assassinations) of perceived national security threats. To the contrary, the norm against targeted killings outside of battlefield set…
October 10, 2013
Middle East Matters This Week: Libyan Abductions, Egyptian Aid Suspension, and Syrian Culpability
Significant Developments Libya. Prime minister Ali Zeidan was abducted today and held for at least six hours by the Revolutionary Operations Chamber, a militia assigned to protect Libya’s parliament…
November 12, 2014
Tunisia
Tunisia: First Impressions
Tunis—Ever since Tunisia’s October 26 elections, there has been a raft of paeans to the “birthplace of the Arab Spring.” Tunisia does look pretty good, especially as it sits in between the chaos, res…
November 22, 2011
Egypt
The Miscalculations of Egypt’s Military
A protester throws a tear gas canister, which had earlier been thrown by riot police, near Tahrir Square in Cairo November 20, 2011 (Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Courtesy Reuters). Please see below for my l…
April 9, 2015
Iran
Neither Shocked nor Awed: The Arab Reaction to the Iran Deal
My research associate, Amr Leheta, wrote this terrific post on the Arab reaction to the framework agreement between the P5+1 and Iran. Enjoy! “The Nuclear Agreement…A Strategic Earthquake in the Mid…
