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Obama’s Reorg: Keep It or Cut It? Part II
Last Thursday we inaugurated this new feature in which we ponder: if President Obama is considering federal government reorganization, what should he keep or cut with regard t...
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The Most Interesting Six Months in Egypt
I was in Beirut when Rafik Hariri was assassinated and lived in Lebanon for the next 12 months as well. The March 8th and 14th demonstrations, and the popular movement that le...
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Two Views on Obama and Egypt
I give the Washington Post a hard time, but today I'll give them some credit where it is due: on the op-ed page today, Jackson Diehl makes the argument that the Obama Administ...
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Read this Now: GOOD
Will gave you a rundown of the National Military Strategy late yesterday afternoon, so for this morning I’ll be brief: if you’re in a book store or airport scouting for good r...
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Natural Security in the New National Military Strategy
The Department of Defense released the 2011 National Military Strategy (NMS) this morning. For those not familiar, the strategy is largely intended to outline how the U.S. mil...
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U.S. Policy in Mubarak's Egypt: Harder Than It Looks
Veteran Washington Post intelligence reporter Walter Pincus goes wading through the Wikileaks cables and discovers something that lends support to a post I wrote last week: Am...
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The Freshman Class of the 112th Congress: Energy Independence the Hottest Topic
Not only do many of the new members of Congress share a background in the energy industry, as I outlined in a previous post, but their proposed energy policies are strikingly ...
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Does Egypt give us all an excuse to beat up on political scientists?
I have been greatly entertained by the debate between Daniel Drezner and Arpoova Shah over the question of whether the situation in Egypt says anything about the strength of p...
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This Weekend’s News: A Review of Hot, and the Challenge of Climate Gridlock
Mark Hertsgaard’s new climate change book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, is at the top of my reading list. So I was happy to see it was well received by T...
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Egypt: The Blame Game Begins. Sigh.
Well, this is depressing, but I guess it was inevitable that in Washington, people would start asking "Who Lost Egypt?" before it was even clear what, exactly, is happening th...
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Obama’s Reorg: Keep It or Cut It?
Last week in his State of the Union address, President Obama announced, "In the coming months, my administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate, and reorganize ...
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Abu Muqawama at THE Ohio State University
If you are at all able, come harass me at Ohio State's Mershon Center for International Security Studies tomorrow. I will be there to eat humble pie and congratulate the Big T...
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Egypt's Revolution: Resources Edition
Mike Luckovich, perhaps the nation’s best political cartoonist, is concerned about oil prices given recent events in Egypt and Tunisia. He’s not the only one – as I’m typing t...
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Thought for the Day: Egypt vs. Pakistan
One of the things that has come up in several conversations today has been the professionalism of the Egyptian military. It is worth noting, too, that even though the United S...
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Two Book-length Alternatives to the Nonsense
The continued willingness of pundits with no previous experience in or expertise on Egypt to opine about what is taking place there continues to impress. As CNN's Ben Wedeman ...
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Yemen After Saleh
I know you are all focused on Egypt at the moment, and for good reason, but I asked Dana Stuster, another intern here at CNAS with some experience in the Middle East, to write...
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The Freshman Class of the 112th Congress: The Climate Divide
The new class on the Hill has been less vocal on their climate policies than they have about energy. It is clear that the new Members do not view climate change to be a very i...
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Mubarak and Me
I grew up in Egypt and Hosni Mubarak was my uncle. To be honest, I think he was an uncle, father or grandfather to the 66 percent of Egyptians who are under 30. In fact, even ...
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This Weekend’s News: Water in Iraq Could Be Exacerbating Ethnic Grievances
Like many, my attention was fixed on the Middle East this weekend as I watched events in Egypt unfold, with demonstrations, it would seem, becoming more intense as the days pa...
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Egypt: A Humble Request
Hey, I'm not trying to get all Edward Said on the readership here, but I do have one small request: can we all agree to stop using European historical analogies to describe wh...