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Mihaela Carstei on the US-Canada Keystone Pipeline Project (CTV)
On the heels of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to the United States, Energy & Environment Program Associate Director Mihaela Carstei joins CTV to discuss the Keystone Pipeline project that would transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to refineries in the Gulf coast of Texas.
Frederic Hof on US Position in Syria Crisis (BBC World Service)
Hariri Middle East Center Senior Fellow Frederic Hof speaks with the BBC’s Tim Franks about the cautious US position with respect to resolving the Syria crisis.
Shuja Nawaz Response to Pakistan Election Results (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
South Asia Center Director Shuja Nawaz joins a live Google Hangout organized by RFE/RL to discuss Pakistan’s historic elections.
Shuja Nawaz Speaks About Pakistan Elections (CCTV America)
South Asia Center Director Shuja Nawaz joins CCTV America to discuss Pakistan’s historic elections.
J. Peter Pham Co-Authors Study on Morocco’s Relationship with Africa
February 25, 2013J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, co-authored a just-published study examining Morocco’s relationship with the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), in the evolving context of one of the world’s most intractable feuds, the dispute over the Western Sahara.
The study, Morocco and the African Union: Prospects for Re-engagement and Progress on the Western Sahara, was published by the Johannesburg, South Africa-based Brenthurst Foundation on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the first pan-African organization, and co-authored by Pham with the Foundation’s director, Greg Mills, and its deputy director, Terence McNamee.
The paper argues that the specter of transnational conflict in Africa’s Sahel region—punctuated by France’s intervention in Mali—has cast a fresh light on the stalemate over the Western Sahara. Moreover, the authors contend that if the African Union is to engage meaningfully on this issue, it must engage Morocco, the separatist Polisario Front, and, perhaps most consequentially, the Polisario’s main backer, Algeria, with new ideas and realistic avenues to break the impasse. Morocco’s continuing absence from the AU not only threatens to create a permanent rupture in the organization but also limits the catalytic role in Africa’s economic growth that Morocco, given its relative sophistication and depth of integration with Europe and the Mediterranean and Atlantic basins, is especially well positioned to play.
Founded in 2004 by the Oppenheimer family to promote constructive dialogue on issues affecting economic growth and development across Africa, the Brenthurst Foundation has as its mandate to encourage key decision makers and experts to share experiences and insights at private meetings and seminars; deliver relevant, practical policy advice to governments; and generate new thinking and thought-leadership to address Africa's development challenges.
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