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Jonathan Paris Discusses Syrian Crisis with France 24
Jonathan Paris, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, appeared on France 24 to discuss Russia's support for the Assad regime and what it means for a possible UN resolution against Syria.
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On February 1, Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson testified at a hearing of the US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on the topic: "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the US and Europe?"
Michele Dunne on US-Egypt Relations for NPR's Morning Edition
Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
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The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”
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Foreign Policy Priorities for the Next President (Slaughter)
Anne-Marie Slaughter | November 05, 2008
Editor's note: We polled several friends of the Atlantic Council last week on the question What are the top foreign policy priorities for the next president? We'll be running their responses all week.
1. Addressing the global financial crisis; he should appoint his economic team immediately and figure out a strategy for both injecting stability and confidence back into world markets and limiting the damage to the real economy.
2. Work with other NATO members to develop a strategy for fighting the war in Afghanistan on a long-term basis and get the commitments to pursue that strategy consistently.
3. Reach an understanding with General Petraeus about the timeline for withdrawing from Iraq and begin the diplomacy necessary to put together a U.S.-EU-U.N. conference on ensuring a stable and prosperous future for Iraq in the wider region.
4. Announce that he will close Guantanamo within six months based on the recommendations of a bipartisan commission and ensure full compliance with the Geneva Conventions by all parts of the U.S. government.
5. Announce an immediate review of U.S. climate change policy with the intention of figuring out how the United States can play an leading diplomatic and economic role in doing everything possible to avert what is possible to avert and mitigate what is not.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Debate word cloud from Flickr user EricaJoy, used under Creative Commons license.
