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January 3, 2012

United States
The Officers, NGOs, and Us

Protesters gather during a demonstration against the Egyptian military council in Tahrir square in Cairo (Ahmed Jadallah/Courtesy Reuters) Last July, a team of senior Egyptian military officers visi…

The Officers, NGOs, and Us

December 11, 2015

Yemen
Fiddling in Yemen: A Messy War’s Lessons for Global Conflict Management

Coauthored with Callie Plapinger, intern in the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. As the world watches Syria burn, a tiny glimmer of hop…

Protesters demonstrate against the Saudi-led air strikes outside the United Nations offices in Sana'a, Yemen, on November 2, 2015.

January 9, 2014

United States
This Week: Syrian Pre-Negotiations, Egyptian Convictions, and more U.S. Shuttle Diplomacy

Significant Developments Syria. Representatives from various Syrian opposition groups-- including some Islamist factions-- met in Cordoba, Spain today to try to forge common ground before the schedu…

Members of Syrian opposition groups stand after visiting the former mosque of Cordoba during a consultative meeting in Cordoba, southern Spain January 9, 2014 (del Pozo/Courtesy Reuters).

January 12, 2015

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Ankara on Paris: Disturbingly Equivocal

I have been reluctant to comment on the attacks in Paris. As with a whole host of people who have popped up on television to make sense of last week’s violence, terrorism and European Muslim communit…

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