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NEW GEOPOLITICS ) EFTA00607323 IPI SALZBURG FORUM 2017 Schloss Leopoldskron, 3-5 September SESSION 3 Changing Relations in the Middle East and North Africa: What Comes Next? Monday. 4 September 2017 I Library, 15:00 In recent years, the Middle East and North Africa has been riven by internal and extern
ing Brexit and the continuing conflict in Ukraine. In Asia, you have rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in the South China Sea. In Africa, South Sudan and the Lake Chad basin are sites of serious humanitarian concern that transcend national borders. In South America, Venezuela is in the midst of d
versial as it underscores the issue of national sovereignty as U.S. participation in these operations in Central America increases. Middle East and North Africa Egypt: Egypt's stock market is serving as an accurate barometer of the level of political tension during the nation's historic political transition
lls will determine whether Khartoum is willing to appease internal tensions, while also continuing to negotiate complex post-referendum issues with South Sudan. Latin America Mexico: Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was elected president on July 1, bringing
and decimated core Al Qaeda, the terrorist threat has morphed to pose new challenges. Splinter groups have proliferated across the Middle East and North Africa. Syria has become a vast training ground for extremists much like Afghanistan in the 1980s, with more than 5,000 foreign fighters. None of this is
ou work on the president's national security staff, you never feel like there are enough hours in the day. Whether you are managing Ukraine, Syria, South Sudan or the South China Sea, even a 15-hour day leaves you feeling like a slacker. But every few years, the White House staff piles one more task on its
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
ods enveloped in flames and hundreds of thousands of people displ=ced have come to us from Syria, Iraq and Gaza, from the Central African Republi=, South Sudan, Ukraine, Nigeria and Yemen. Aid workers and journalists have b=en caught and killed in the crossfire together with the civilian population.</=pan>
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
st expansion. Arguably, however, the three capitals of Khartoum, Juba and Beijing have mutual vulnerabilities. The two Sudanese states, especially South Sudan are in desperate need of investments for development. With more than $12.5 billion invested in the petro- sector, much of it in the disputed Abyei a
Entities connected to both North Africa and South Sudan

Barack Obama
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United States
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Marc Rich
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
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Tehran
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Yemen
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Tunisia
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Donald Trump
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Damascus
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Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Prince Andrew
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