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Authoritarians are on the rise around the world, but history shows they’re mostly helpless.
Zenko is joined by Steven A. Cook, CFR's Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies. They discuss Cook's latest book, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, and U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa.
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The Muslim Brotherhood, once Egypt’s largest opposition movement and a standard-bearer for Islamist groups around the world, has been once again driven underground as Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has consolidated power.
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The death of Mohamed Morsi is the latest milestone along the country’s slide into terminal irrelevance.
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Gulf powers have lined up behind Sudan’s ruling military council. Where Sudan goes from here could depend on whether other powers play a countervailing role.
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Test your knowledge of Egypt, from its geography to its relations with its neighbors.
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Naming the diffuse movement a foreign terrorist organization could stretch the blacklist’s purpose and complicate the work of diplomats in the Middle East and North Africa.
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It’s time to hold Egypt accountable for the U.S. citizens it has unjustly victimized.
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Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and Director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
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It’s time to hold Egypt accountable for the U.S. citizens it has unjustly victimized.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and Egypt top the list of countries most likely to experience a new mass killing in 2018 or 2019, according to a new forecast.
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For political activists in the Muslim world, it's not just the economy, stupid.
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Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post was compiled with support from Rebecca Turkington and Ao Yin.
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Developments in conflicts across the world that you might have missed this week.
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Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering June 16 to June 23, was compiled with support from Lucia Petty and Rebecca Turkington.
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The arc of Egypt’s history is flat, and it bends toward autocracy.
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Authoritarians are on the rise around the world, but history shows they’re mostly helpless.