Council On Foreign Relations – Page 2 – Middle East Policy Platform

The Tragic Tale of Egypt’s Decline: Is It Also the Story of America’s Future?

2017 Council On Foreign Relations Democracy and Politics Foreign Relations Paper Steven A. Cook

August 28, 2017 05:54 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/tragic-tale-egypts-decline-it-also-story-americas-future This article was originally published here on Salon.com on Sunday, August 27, 2017. Alexandria, Egypt’s second city, was once a cosmopolitan place. Nestled in the eastern Mediterranean at the corner of Africa and the Levant, it...

Learn More

Financing Egypt’s “Missing Middle”

2017 Becky Allen Council On Foreign Relations Economy Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Paper

August 16, 2017 05:55 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Becky Allen Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/financing-egypts-missing-middle This post is co-authored by Becky Allen, a research associate in the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) recently launched an initiative that will dedicate approximately $1.6...

Learn More

United States Assistance for Egypt

2017 Council On Foreign Relations Egypt Foreign Relations Paper Unknown

April 25, 2017 03:39 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/report/united-states-assistance-egypt-0 Elliott Abrams testified before the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. He gave his assessment of the security side of the U.S.-Egypt aid relationship and suggested that the United States...

Learn More

Egypt’s Economic Reform: The Good and the Bad

2016 Council On Foreign Relations Economy Imran Riffat Paper Steven A. Cook

November 14, 2016 05:55 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook, Imran Riffat Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/egypts-economic-reform-good-and-bad Last Friday, many Egyptians and more than a few Egypt watchers in Washington, DC, held their collective breath. November 11 was to be the “Revolution of the Poor,” but the 22 million who live in poverty did not show up in

Learn More

Egypt’s Black Market Blues

2016 Council On Foreign Relations Economy Paper Steven A. Cook

March 15, 2016 05:55 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/egypts-black-market-blues Just as I was heading out the door yesterday, I received a message from my friend Timothy Kaldas with just two words: “They caved.” I knew exactly what he was referring to. The Central Bank of Egypt determined that it could no longer

Learn More

Sisi Wags His Finger

2016 Council On Foreign Relations Economy Egypt Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Steven A. Cook

March 10, 2016 03:40 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/sisi-wags-his-finger Is Egypt melting down? It has an insurgency, a currency crisis, a brazen and brutal security apparatus that is sowing dissent, a phony political process, and a leader who has lost his grip. These are, at least, the reasons that have been outlined

Learn More

What the Jailing of Ismail Alexandrani Tells Us About Egypt

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Egypt Elliot Abrams Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

December 03, 2015 03:40 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Elliot Abrams Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/what-jailing-ismail-alexandrani-tells-us-about-egypt Ismail Alexandrani is an Egyptian journalist who was detained when he returned to Egypt recently, and that detention has now been extended for at least another 15 days. His treatment by the government of President Sisi tells us a good deal...

Learn More

Egypt: Into the Unknown

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Egypt Human Rights Paper Steven A. Cook

November 09, 2015 03:40 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/egypt-unknown The Egyptian state is weak. The country’s leaders are in a state of either panic or perpetual confusion. No one is in control. As in the darkest, most contested days of former President Mohammed Morsi’s tenure, Egypt’s failure once again seems plausible. Despite

Learn More

Interest and Intrigue in Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Democracy and Politics H. A. Hellyer Paper

October 21, 2015 05:56 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): H. A. Hellyer Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/interest-and-intrigue-egypts-parliamentary-elections Egyptians voted this week for the eighth time in four years—ten if you count runoffs. The most blatant characteristic this time appears to be rather unedifying: An abundant lack of interest in the formal exercise of the democratic process...

Learn More

Sisi’s Struggle for Egypt

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Economy Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Steven A. Cook

September 29, 2015 05:54 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/sisis-struggle-egypt I have always wondered why leaders of foreign countries feel the need to publish opinion pieces in American newspapers of record. Who exactly are they trying to influence? The folks at the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, the Treasury, and the

Learn More

Egypt: Pressure Works

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Egypt Elliot Abrams Foreign Relations Paper

September 24, 2015 03:47 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Elliot Abrams Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/egypt-pressure-works President Sisi of Egypt just announced pardons of roughly 100 political prisoners. The New York Times story said this… Read more at original link.

Learn More

Is President Sisi a Bulwark Against Terrorism?

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Egypt Elliot Abrams Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

August 19, 2015 03:40 am

0

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Elliot Abrams Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/president-sisi-bulwark-against-terrorism There are very few people nowadays ignoring the growing repression in Egypt. Most recently, a new “counter-terrorism” law was imposed this week–but it snuffs out free speech more than terror. Even the State Department denounced the...

Learn More