Epstein Secrets

Canal and automatic permission EFTA_R1_00441472 EFTA01964633 for our military aircraft to transit the region. If we stop our aid, the Saudis and the Arab Emirates will just replace it. There is something to each of these worries, but less than meets the eye. Egypt's rulers behave out of self-interest. They c

ing democracy; the so- called Deauville Partnership never got much beyond the stage of rhetoric. I'm told a more ambitious proposal for a concerted Arab Spring initiative was debated within the Obama administration in 2012 but was rejected because it might have been a distraction from President Obama's all

olitical reconciliation and economic growth. There was a halfhearted effort led by France in 2011 to create a sort of collective support system for Arab Spring democracy; the so- called Deauville Partnership never got much beyond the stage of rhetoric. I'm told a more ambitious proposal for a concerted Ara

the region today. Burson-Marsteller just published its annual Arab Youth Survey, which found that more young Arabs said they would like to live in the United Arab Emirates than any other Arab state, because of how it has built Dubai and Abu Dhabi into global hubs and job engines. Leadership matters. Education reformer

on has taken. Said Sadek, a political sociologist who participated in the protests that brought down Mubarak last year, says in retrospect, Egypt's Arab Spring was "a mix of a popular revolution and a military coup." "Egypt is in the surgery room at the moment, and in surgery you see ugly things," said Sa

to wage Russian-style influence operations in the United States ahead of next year's election," and nations including China, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela have also demonstrated such capacities. The Wall Street Journal (7/25, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) says in an editorial that it

is held. The AP cautions that "Essebsi's death while still in office could lead to new power struggles in the only country to emerge from the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings with a functioning democracy and relative stability." Concerns Rise About Potential Chinese Military Response To Hong Kong Protests. The