So it’s up to the candidates to convey to Americans just how dire the stakes are internationally.
Jonathan Guyer
Jonathan Guyer is program director at the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group and a contributing editor at the Prospect.
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Bolton, Trump, and American MEMRI
Bolton, Trump, and American MEMRI. The Middle East Media Research Institute, better known as MEMRI, calls itself a hate-speech watchdog, translating Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, and Urdu sound bites into English and posting them for mass consumption. Mideast watchers know it as a hawkish, fear-mongering nonprofit that cherry-picks the most extreme voices from Arabic talk shows […]
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Mohamed Morsi: A Postscript
The deposed Egyptian president’s legacy is complicated, and his death cruel. He “always underestimated the animosity of the military,” says the former U.S. ambassador.
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Can Europe Come Together?
The elections to the European Parliament halted the rise of the far right but produced more fragmentation—and that’s not good enough.
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The Last Human Rights Defender in the Emirates
The digital activist Ahmed Mansoor’s hunger strike exposes the UAE’s repression.
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Egypt’s New President for Life
Trump’s second White House meeting with Egyptian President El-Sisi will encourage a drift toward repression even worse than the Mubarak era.
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Needed: A U.S. Policy on Saudi Arabia
The next administration would do well to revise the long-standing U.S. partnership with Saudi Arabia, and America has substantial leverage to produce change in the kingdom’s behavior.