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ares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs — with the support and cooperation of the Unicef regional office for the Middle East and North Africa. My fellow panelist was Dalia Mogahed, a senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, who has tracked and analyze

benefit of time. George H.W. Bush, for instance, is increasingly considered a skilled foreign policy president, even though he left office with the Balkans descending into the abyss and Saddam Hussein clinging to power — two "failures" that many thought would forever taint his legacy. With foreign pol

owers. The Levant was also important to any empire originating to the north or south of Israel. If Egypt decided to move beyond the Nile Basin and North Africa eastward, it would move first through the Sinai and then northward along the coastal plain, securing sea lanes to Egypt. When Asia Minor powers suc

hase, the Ottoman Empire sought to dominate the eastern Mediterranean as well as both its northern and southern coasts. One thrust went through the Balkans toward central Europe. The other was toward Egypt. Inevitably, this required that the Ottomans secure the Levant. For the British, the focus on th

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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

efugees who had crossed an international border rose from 16.4 to 17.9 million. The p=evious post-war peak was reached in 1995, when the wars in the Balkans and genocide in Rwanda and Eastern Congo caused millions to flee. Relief worker experienced in the field of humanitarian relief and human rights wo

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

nts: the turmoil of the Arab spring is to its south, an ascendant Islamist and neo-Ottoman Turkey are to the east, and the ethnic powder keg in the Balkans lie to the North, capped by EFTA_R1_02204492 EFTA02720836 understandably unsympathetic European Union creditors. Only Greece's NATO membership-a

many fear, there will not be a smooth transition. If America continues to reduce its role in the Middle East, predicts a former central banker from North Africa, "the next quarter century is ... going to be very, very messy," marked by "disorder more than order." Kishore Mahbubani, a well-known theorist of

furter Rundschau, which had been accusing Americans of "camouflaged neocolonialism," suddenly fretted that the "problems in the Middle East, in the Balkans or in Asia" could not be solved "without U.S. assistance and a president who enjoys respect." The irony was not lost on some observers. A French pu

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York's judgment and choice of associates have been questioned. He appears to relish the company of super-rich oil billionaires from the Middle East, North Africa and the former Soviet Union. The peculiar sale of his former marital home to a Kazakh businessman for £15 million after it had languished unsold f

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n powers. The Levant was also important to any empire originating to the north or south of Israel. If Egypt decided to move beyond the Nile Basin and North Africa eastward, it would move first through the Sinai and then northward along the coastal plain, securing sea lanes to Egypt. When Asia Minor powers such

phase, the Ottoman Empire sought to dominate the eastern Mediterranean as well as both its northern and southern coasts. One thrust went through the Balkans toward central Europe. The other was toward Egypt. Inevitably, this required that the Ottomans secure the Levant. For the British, the focus on the e

y was dominated by generals and played almost no role in the world. Now it is a vibrant democracy and a major force in the Middle East, the Caucasus, North Africa, the Balkans, and beyond. The election was a triumph for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has presided over his country's remarkable transfor

e to protect the Kurds and the Shia in Iraq in 1991, over the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and over the many years of dithering as lives were lost in the Balkans. But a series of apparently successful interventions - Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone - gradually strengthened the belief that western mili