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that he may be contemplating a pause but not abandonment of his peace efforts." Mr. Kerry, in fact, was careful to leave open the possibility that the United States would seek a course correction, not a pullback. The months he spent nurturing serious talks, he insisted, were not wasted because the two sides had

center on Twitter: @Abraham Center Al-Ahram Weekly Did Obama succeed in Riyadh? Al-Sayed Amin Shalabi EFTA00705806 2 April, 2014 -- Since the Unites States established diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia in 1933, and the summit meeting between US president Franklin D Roosevelt and king Abdul-Aziz Ib

iliation and courageous political and economic decisions that would allow Egypt to move beyond such dependence. Michele Dunne, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. EFTA00705814

r Iran to attend, then rescinded it after strong objections from America; from Saudi Arabia, Iran's regional rival; and from the Syrian opposition. The United States has said that Iran could not participate without publicly accepting a 2012 communiqué that is the basis of the conference and stipulates that the g

ear-armed Iran. Should this be a hard choice? Astonishingly, too many members of Congress seem to think so. Jessica Tuchman Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. EFTA00651277

d quickly escalate into a broader war. In advance of Mr. Panetta's speech in New York on Thursday, senior officials debated how much to talk about the United States's offensive capabilities, assessing whether such an acknowledgment could help create a deterrent for countries contemplating attacks on the country

by such people. EFTA00701622 I learned something about this matter when I had the pleasure this week in Washington, D.C. of being on a panel at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The session discussed a report on Arab youth produced by the institute that I direct at the American University of Beirut

permanent legacy of the Arab Spring. This question isn't trivial, as the political fortunes of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, and the interests of the United States, hang in the balance. A window onto the question of whether it will be political Islam or secular nationalism that will emerge strengthened from th

f aid gets cut off and Egypt says, `We're going to war with Israel,' " said Nathan Brown, a Middle East scholar at George Washington University and the Carnegie Endowment. "Egypt's attitude toward Islamic terrorism — right now, they're on the same page as Fox News." Sure, if aid is suspended gulf states will send mo

nce for Hamas as their own ties with the Israelis have gotten colder. And these new allies aren't outliers like Iran and Syria. They are friends of the United States and very much in the center of the international community. Where's Waldo? It's testament to the weakness of Abbas and the PLO that it is Hamas's

s. Nathan J. Brown is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington Univeristy and nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. EFTA_R1_00464344 EFTA01977728 Article 2. Foreign Policy How Hamas Won the War Aaron David Miller November 19, 2012

t groups across =he Middle East. President Barack Obama's approach consisted of trusting unchecked CIA drone strikes and NSA eavesdropping to secure the United States. Republicans used the region's instability as a cudgel to beat the president with. Here are three of 2013's most troubling development= in the Middl

it only because we didn=92t give the "good guys" big enough guns? =br> As Muasher, a former Jordanian foreign=minister and now a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, put it in an interv=ew: 'Three years of the Arab uprising have shown the bankruptcy of all the ol= political forces in the Arab worl

and fought a war against Egyptian troops in the following decade. Egypt regained full control of the Sinai after the 1979 peace treaty brokered by the United States. A U.S. Army battalion consisting of several hundred soldiers is stationed in the Sinai as part of an international peacekeeping force. In the re

between the SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood that for the foreseeable future they have to share power," says Marina Ottaway, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for EFTA_R1_02209747 EFTA02723619 International Peace. "They have to rule together because there is no other way to do it. They cannot start add

enrich uranium could be recognized under those circumstances is, Hillary Clinton has said, "the position of the international community, along with the United States." If the Lieberman-Graham-Casey resolution guides US policy, says George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, that would "p

of the international community, along with the United States." If the Lieberman-Graham-Casey resolution guides US policy, says George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, that would "preclude" fulfillment of the UN resolutions and isolate the US from the international coalition that backed t