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Why the Color Revolutions Failed
Why the Color Revolutions Failed by Melinda Haring and Michael Cecire, Foreign Policy, March 18, 2013...
Read more »So What About the Other 364 Days a Year?
So What About the Other 364 Days a Year? by Arzu Geybullayeva and Melinda Haring, Foreign Policy, October 8, 2013...
Read more »A First for Georgia
A First for Georgia by Melinda Haring (with Laura Linderman), Atlantic Council, October 13, 2013...
Read more »Ukraine Roars Back to Life
Ukraine Roars Back to Life (with Laura Linderman), Atlantic Council, December 3, 2013 Click here to be redirected to the Atlantic Council web-site in order to view the publication. ...
Read more »Playing Iraq’s Game of Thrones
The past few weeks of events in Iraq have been both personally and professionally depressing. The fall of Tal Afar was personally depressing because I spent a year in that area back in 2006-2007 living with and serving alongside...
Read more »Can the U.S. Help End the Intra-GCC Rift?
For years the United States has relied on the Gulf Cooperation Council as a force multiplier and an oasis of stability in a volatile part of the world, but internal disagreements are now threatening the GCC’s unity. Read the...
Read more »Inter-GCC Tensions Through American Eyes
The Gulf’s strategic location and abundance of energy resources has always made it the site of competing global interests and a host of regional conflicts. The Arab Uprisings unleashed additional troubles in the Gulf and have the potential to...
Read more »Egypt Brands the Brotherhood Terrorists: Will the U.S. Follow Suit?
The interim Egyptian government formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization on Dec. 25, 2013. The decision, which came as little shock to most seasoned observers of Egypt, was made just days after a suicide bombing was allegedly...
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