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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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June 9, 2014
Politics and Government
Hello (Ahlan), Abdul Fattah al-Sisi: President of Egypt
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took the oath of office as Egypt’s new president yesterday. He succeeded the interim president, Adly Mansour. And who appointed Mansour? Why, Sisi himself after he and the Egypt…
April 26, 2013
United States
Sea Power in the Pacific, Drones in Lebanon, and America’s “Dirty Wars”
David C. Gompert, “Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific,” Rand Corportation, to be published June 3, 2013, pp. 160-162. If we are indeed in for a change in the basic premise of s…
August 24, 2011
United States
First Libya, Now Syria?
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad welcomes Libya's leader Muammar Qaddafi at the opening of the two-day Arab Summit in Damascus on March 29, 2008 (Jamal Saidi/Courtesy Reuters). “As Libya Falls, Syri…
October 17, 2014
Political Movements
Weekend Reading: The Artful Arab Spring, Disillusionment in Sidi Bouzid, and Rethinking Fragmented States
St. Lawrence University offers an interactive look at the Arab uprisings through the lens of graffiti art. Michael Marcusa examines the revolutionary spirit of the youth of Sidi Bouzid three-and-a-h…
August 15, 2014
Iraq
Weekend Reading: HRW Reports on Raba’a, Defeating IS, and Iran’s Man in Baghdad
Full text of the Human Rights Watch report on last year’s forcible dispersal of the pro-Morsi Raba’a sit-in. Nabeel Khoury, writing for The Tahrir Forum, argues that if the United States fails to de…
