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been virtually no change in the tax/GDP ratio over the past decade. The best performers in this respect are Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa with ratios above 30%. Several factors have been advanced to explain the poor performance in tax revenue mobilization in de- veloping countries. T

e-mail to the author. Ibis paper was prepared as a contribution to the work program of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) on the United Nations' development agenda for the post-2015 era. This research effort aimed at analyzing and proposing solutions to the current deficiencies in global rule

write the president's speech in a way that would have protected us from criticism," said Philip H. Gordon, the coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council. "We were trying to be honest and realistic." Mr. Gordon took part in the Saturday sessions, along with two of Ms.

t whether Mr. Obama would ever again use military force in a region convulsed by conflict. For Ms. Rice, 48, who previously served as ambassador to the United Nations, it is an uncharacteristic imprint. A self-confident foreign policy thinker and expert on Africa, she is known as a fierce defender of human rights

ons. For realists and idealists alike, such independence holds tremendous value as the country contends with a fragmenting Middle East, an unstable North Africa, and a contentious Russia, among other challenges. EFTA00707205 Since 1973, OPEC's "oil weapon" has dangled ominously over the U.S. While Americ

airs.... The other aspect is the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. Saudi Arabia has always been consistently supportive of the "P5+1" positions at the United Nations against Iran — the sanctions, etc.... The kingdom's position is that ... we need to have a United Nations Security Council statement establishing a

licy job. In that po=ition, the 41-year old Mogherini, who was appointed in August, will negotiate the peri=ous situations in Russia, Ukraine, Iran, North Africa, the Middle East, and Chi=a. She will also preside over the Foreign Affairs Council, which is comprised =f Europe's 27 foreign ministers, and direc

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nce over a Middle East peace agreement, even as the Administration continued to try to manage the post- revolution transitions across the region and North Africa. Obama doesn't believe that there is much he can do to change EFTA_R1_02204192 EFTA02720663 the status quo in North Korea. Meanwhile, the situat

whom he can turn. Mideast advisor Dennis Ross has left; Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, departed for a post at the United Nations; and Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns will in all likelihood leave when a new secretary of state is appointed or a few months later. In Januar

stantially more urban, literate, media-savvy and wired than their parents and grandparents. - Some 42 months later, in most of the Middle East and North Africa, the bright hopes for more personal liberties and an end to political and economic stagnation championed by those young people have been dashed. I

influence, and to quietly support the European nuclear monopolies of Britain and France. While the U.S. has always talked up the American-inspired United Nations, its first allegiance has always been to assure liberal democratic states in Europe of unshakeable American support. Any weakening of the latter mi

is the author of Talking to Arab Youth: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt and Tunisia. Nur focuses on the transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and issues related to US foreign policy. She has worked as a senior policy analyst at the International Peace Inst

ted Nations, and not Israel alone, could delineate on a map and demarcate on the ground the line of withdrawal. Such a line had to be, to the best of the United Nations’ knowledge, in conformity with Lebanon’s international boundar- ies. On this basis, and with the consent of the parties, the UN Secretary-General coul

the Security Council and eventually recommend that it should confirm that Israel had ended its occupation. This understanding led to an agreement for the United Nations to negotiate with the Governments of Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Through intense, difficult, and stormy tripartite negotiations over five months, the

s in Benghazi. Libya had few significant air defense systems and no friends; it was relatively easy to construct a coalition of the (semi-)willing in the United Nations, NATO and the Arab League to oppose the man President Ronald Reagan once dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East"' -- a tin pot and often bizarre dict

rab countries than notions based on imported ideologies such as communism, nationalism, and socialism. Ibn Khaldun's analysis was based on his native North Africa, but it can be adapted to the conditions of the Mashreq, or Levant-where similar historical conditions prevailed. As Albert Hourani explained in his