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From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Sent: Mon 8/26/2013 4:45:44 PM Subject: August 26 update 26 August, 2013 Article 1. The Daily Beast Obama's New Syria Options Leslie H. Gelb

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

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen < MIIIMII> Subject: August 21 update Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:22:23 +0000 21 August, 2012 Article 1 Foreign Policy The Israeli debate on attack

t (although less so in neighboring countries), but Washington would be wise to ramp up operations gradually and invest now in developing a cadre of Arab Spring hands. Fifth, Washington should leave logos behind. When you do a good deed for a friend but insist that your friend wear a sign advertising your v

or investment, and should reflect collaboration with the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), both active in Arab Spring countries, on helping countries with labor, tax, and competitive reforms they so desperately need. Fourth, Washington should have lower expectatio

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen < IIMI> Subject: November 7 update Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:51:32 +0000 7 November, 2012 Article 1. NYT Hope and Change: Part Two Thomas L. F

to the 2011 UNAIDS report, both infections and deaths are on the wane. EFTA00700222 Dictator Demographics The jury is still out on the so-called Arab Spring, but the last four years have been an unmitigated disaster for some of the world's worst and longest-serving rulers (known at FP as the committee t

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen < > Subject: May 6 update Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 19:29:44 +0000 6 May, 2012 Article 1 Al-Ahram Weekly Revolution and reform Abdel-Moneim Said

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

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growing oil revenues that insulate them from Europe's problems. "North Africa, which has had to resolve many of the issues raised by the so-called Arab Spring, now has something else to contend with," Daniel Broby, thief investment officer for Gtai .eulu Zwit ;Iambs be ter oh Archives I Blogs Lead St

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Subject: December 16 update Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:54:22 +0000 16 December, 2013 Article 1. The Washington Post Iran committed to making a d

a transitional period after the revolution. Compare our situation to other countries in a similar situation — Libya, Syria, Yemen, Egypt and other Arab Spring countries. Tunisia is obviously faring much better. It is the last candle still shining in the Arab Spring despite all the winds that are blowing a

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen < IIMI> Subject: January 24 update Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:19:06 +0000 24 January, 2012 Article 1. Wall Street Journal What Moscow and Damasc

es that neoconservatives were right all along Elliott Abrams EFTA00660812 January 23, 2012 -- There is a sour mood nowadays about the so-called Arab Spring. Armed gangs roam in Libya, Salafists win votes in Egypt, and minorities like the Egyptian Copts live in fear -- as does the Shiite majority in Bah

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Sent: Mon 8/26/2013 4:45:28 PM Subject: August 25 update 25 August, 2013 Article 1. NYT Egypt Widens Crackdown and Meaning of `Islamist' Da

py about the current state of affairs. U.S. credibility and its image in the Middle East have taken a real beating. And our policy on the so-called Arab Spring, or what's left of it, is pretty much at sea, largely because we can't shape the internal dynamics of these societies. Still, on many things that

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Sent: Mon 2/6/2012 8:23:08 PM Subject: 5 February update 5 February, 2012 Article 1. NYT Russia: Sort of, but Not Really Thomas L. Friedman

omes violence, and at best, will result in continuation of the revolution. In this way, one year after the Egyptian revolution, and the so- called Arab Spring, the state of affairs have changed in an unprecedented manner which is not likely to reoccur in the future. What we came to know is that the early

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Sent: Wed 2/22/2012 10:43:52 PM Subject: February 21 update 21 February, 2012 Article 1. The Financial Times The drift towards war with Iran

Capitalism. Economic change has been accompanied by a less noted, but no less significant, political inflection point. Alongside the enthralling Arab Spring and China's stillborn Jasmine Revolution, something that might be called the "Turmeric EFTA_R1_00229032 EFTA01842235 Revolution" has been bubbli