MCC funding cut no surprise to Tanzania
The Tanzanian government has said the decision by the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to cancel 450 million euros ($472m) in funding did not come as a surprise, reports suggest:… Read more »
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Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan scolded in open letter
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began making the rounds in the U.S. capital Wednesday, dozens of foreign policy thinkers, including former ambassadors to Turkey, released a letter warning that the situation… Read more »
Putin’s shadow Donbass government exposed
President Vladimir Putin has sent Russian mercenaries to fight in Syria and Ukraine, decorating them for their service and concealing their casualties, according to a new report: An investigation published… Read more »
EU’s flawed approach to Southern neighborhood
Since January 2016, Carnegie Europe has asked authors from Europe’s Southern neighborhood to give candid assessments of the EU’s foreign policy toward their countries. In all but two cases—Palestine and Libya,… Read more »
Dissent erupts within Cuba’s Communist Party
Days after President Barack Obama’s historic visit, the leaders of Cuba’s Communist Party are under highly unusual public criticism from their own ranks for imposing new levels of secrecy on… Read more »
Azerbaijan: US should urge further prisoner releases
United States officials should urge Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, during his visit to Washington to free unjustly imprisoned government critics and political activists, Human Rights Watch said today: They should… Read more »
Dilemmas of Reform in Arab Transitions
Arab states in transition are confronted with a seemingly intractable task: rebuilding state institutions and social contracts in an era of global change, notes analyst Yezid Sayigh. Conventional approaches… Read more »
Critical open letter highlights ‘paranoia’ within China’s ruling party
A series of extraordinary outbursts of public criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping in recent weeks has raised the question of whether his crackdown on dissent is backfiring, the Washington… Read more »
Islamists corrosive to Pakistan’s fragile democracy
On Easter Sunday, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), killed over 72 people and wounded hundreds in an attack on a Lahore park, demonstrating that the… Read more »
Antidote to jihadism debunks ISIS ideology
European researchers and Indonesian kiyais – traditional religious scholars – are collaborating to develop theological arguments to debunk the ideology of radical groups like Islamic State (IS): The University of… Read more »