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Areas of Expertise: Transatlantic relations; US foreign policy
Jeremy Shapiro is the research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of focus include US foreign policy and transatlantic relations.
Shapiro was previously a fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy and the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, where he edited the Foreign Policy program's blog Order from Chaos. Prior to Brookings, he was a member of the U.S. State Department's policy planning staff, where he advised the secretary of state on U.S. policy in North Africa and the Levant. He was also the senior advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon, providing strategic guidance on a wide variety of U.S.-European foreign policy issues.
Jeremy Shapiro - 18 February 2016
Why a presidential victory for Donald Trump might leave Europe having to fend for itself
Jeremy Shapiro - 08 February 2016
In the hands of some governments, terrorism has become a semantic weapon for pressuring others to cooperate in their struggles
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to Alexandra Saieh, Policy Officer for Oxfam's Syria crisis response in Jordan, Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs and Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Jeremy Shapiro, Research Director at ECFR, and Julien Barnes-Dacey, Senior Policy Fellow for ECFR's Middle East & North Africa programme, about the Syria conference in London and the future of Syria more broadly.
Le directeur de l'ECFR Mark Leonard discute avec Alexandra Saieh, Policy Officer pour "Oxfam's Syria crisis response in Jordan", Fyodor Lukyanov, éditeur en chef de Russia in "Global Affairs" et Président du "Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy", Jeremy Shapiro, Research Director à l'ECFR, et Julien Barnes-Dacey, Senior Policy Fellow à l'ECFR pour le programme MENA, à propos de la conférence sur la Syrie à Londres et plus généralement sur le futur de la Syrie.
Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR's Research Director, explains why the EU received a B grade for its foreign policies on the United States.
You can find the Scorecard 2016 publication here.
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to ECFR's research director Jeremy Shapiro about trends and issues in 2016. You can find the article with the thirteen predictions here.
This is London by Ben Judah
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Phillip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
by Jonathan Hackenbroich, Jeremy Shapiro - 15th January, 2018
by Jeremy Shapiro & Dina Pardijs - 21st September, 2017
The election of Donald Trump has changed everything except European attitudes toward American security
by Jeremy Shapiro - 12th October, 2016
Faced with the prospect of a Trump or Clinton presidency, the transatlantic relationship is likely to face difficult challenges whatever the result.
by Various authors - 09th June, 2016
Europe shouldn't be afraid of Russian and Chinese efforts to integrate the Eurasian landmass, but should absorb them into its international order
by Susi Dennison , François Godement, Richard Gowan, Daniel Levy, Kadri Liik , Jeremy Shapiro , Nick Witney - 09th July, 2015
The EU needs an honest assessment of its capabilities and to set limited goals behind which member states can show sustainable unity
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Jeremy Shapiro - 02 April 2019
As NATO enters its eighth decade, it looks back on an impressive history of durability - and ahead to the challenge of wavering US commitment.
Jeremy Shapiro, Philip H. Gordon - 05 March 2019
The transatlantic alliance is dead, and Trump has killed it. How could the next president restore it?
Jeremy Shapiro - 12 February 2019
The Trump administration reduces NATO to a bill owed to the United States, at the cost of sacrificing political solidarity across the Atlantic.
Piotr Buras & Ellie Geranmayeh & Jeremy Shapiro - 24 January 2019
ECFR experts share their insight into the manouevres around next month's US-Poland summit. What does it mean for the JPCOA, and what steps should European countries take in response?
Mark Leonard & Jeremy Shapiro - 03 January 2019
Top ten trends that will occupy European foreign policymakers in 2019
Jeremy Shapiro - 31 October 2018
On 6 November, Americans will head to the polls in congressional elections widely seen as a test of Donald Trump's presidency. The stakes are high for Trump - will he become unleashed or unhinged?
Jeremy Shapiro - 17 October 2018
Three lessons about communicating that politicians in the United States, and abroad, are learning from the current US president
Jeremy Shapiro - 05 September 2018
Despite the promises of globalisation, cosmopolitan politics only takes you so far. In an age of nationalism, it is not a good idea to look to outside forces for help with internal problems.
Jeremy Shapiro is standing in for the regular host Mark Leonard and discusses the current situation in Crimea and relations between Russia and Ukraine with ECFR experts Kadri Liik and Nicu Popsecu. The podcast was recorded on 13 March 2019.
EU Radio is now also broadcasting this podcast on Tuesdays at 7pm and Wednesdays at 9am CET every week. You can listen to the station at euradio.fr.
We need to talk about Putin by Mark Galeotti
History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro review the year gone by and predict the 10 foreign policy trends that will define 2019.
Mark Leonard speaks with Craig Kennedy, Jeremy Shapiro and Anna Kuchenbecker about the election results and Donald Trump's tenure. The podcast was recorded on 8th November 2018.
The Great Delusion by John J. Mearsheimer
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Lords of the Desert by James Barr
The Coming of Democracy by Mark R. Cheathem
Mark Leonard speaks with Asli Aydintasbas, Jeremy Shapiro and Julien Barnes-Dacy about what effect the incident might have on relations between Saudi Arabia, the US and Turkey. The podcast was recorded on the 16 October 2018.
The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Lords of the Desert by James Barr
Khashoggi disappearance: Time for an independent investigation by Julien Barnes-Dacey
Mark Leonard speaks with Francois Godement and Jeremy Shapiro about what kind of leverage Europe can have over America and other great powers. And should Europe behave differently in institutions such as G7 and UN? The podcast was recorded on 26 July 2018.
This week, Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro discuss how the Chinese view Trump, fresh from Mark's trip to China, and how the Big Lebowski explains the Helsinki Summit.
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Trump cannot bring Europe and China together
The Trump opportunity: Chinese perceptions of the US administration
Doreen Baingana: Tongues of fire. (Forthcoming)
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Jeremy Shapiro and Philip Gordon's analysis of the transatlantic relationship listed as one of Aspen Institute's "5 Best Ideas of the Day"
Jeremy Shapiro and Philip Gordon on the end of the Atlantic Alliance and how it could look after 2020.
Jeremy Shapiro and Philip Gordon's piece for Foreign Affairs analyses the death of the transatlantic alliance and how a future US president could revive it.
Jeremy Shapiro quoted in Quartz regarding the relationship between Europe and Trump.
Jeremy Shapiro quoted by France24 on the WWI centenary commemorations in Paris.
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Jeremy Shapiro on the European perception of the US midterm election result.
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....is apparently to be mature enough to handle criticism, at least in California. How so?
The HSLDA report on how they got a California anti-homeschooling ruling overturned specifically notes that one of the critical things they did was to phrase the appeal in such a way to not offend the judges. A quote:
"We had to thread a needle, because we had to bring to the court's attention these gross oversights that we knew weren't necessarily the court's fault because they hadn't been presented to the judges in the earlier briefing," Mason said. "We had to say, 'Hey, you made a mistake,' without offending the judges so much they dismissed it entirely."
Now while I understand the necessity of being polite, but take a close look there. More or less, the speaker is saying that demonstrating a gross oversight in the law to a California judge is likely to get him to dismiss one's appeal without even considering its merit.
In some courts, that would mean that the greater the error by the court, the less its chance of being fixed. Sad to say, it explains some things I've seen. Is it too much to ask that judges also be mature enough to handle criticism?
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land capability for agricultural use in the middle-upper pirrís river watershed is mainly determined by altitude belts. between 1075 and 1700 m asl, coffee production is the main agricultural activity on clayey ultisols with important erosion manifestations. from 1700 to 3100 m natural forest, highland fruit trees, flowers, fish ponds, pastures, some vegetables, mountain cabins, and charcoal production are the main activities on predominant andisol, inceptisol, and entisol soil orders. the area consists of mountains of steep (30-60%) slopes, and a few low-relief deep valleys with recent alluvial terraces. visible features on agricultural lands allowed to estimate that 60% of this land suffers moderate erosion (laminar and reel); 18% of this land suffers severe erosion, to very severe not considering linear erosion due to poorly-designed secondary roads, no road drainage, excavations for infrastructure, and active landslides that cause large scale soil loses. forty four % of the soils are deep, while 38% are moderately deep, and 17% are shallow to superficial. fertility characteristics observed on peats all over the region show that 33% the soils are of low fertility and 52% of very low fertility. considering relief features, suffered erosion, soil fertility, and soil depth, land use capability for agricultural activities in the watershed are: 1% class iii, 2% class v, 8% class viii, 26% class vii, and 63% classes iv and vi.


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|Due to the rapid advancements in software and electronic industries, the development of non-industrial robots (in the remaining part of the report, they are called robots) has received great interests in recent years. Since these robots can be used in many daily living applications, e.g., home assistants and security robots, and most of the users of these robots are common people including elderly, it is important to design a simple and efficient way to control the operations of the robots. In this project, we have investigated the design and development of a control system called Action Based Robot Controlling System (hereafter referred as ABRCS) to control a robot to perform simple tasks, e.g., to grab a specific object located within an indoor environment. In ABRCS, we adopt a tap-to-interact interface to allow the user to select "which" object and "what" action to be performed by the robot using the camera embedded in a smartphone. To achieve the action-based control, ABRCS is integrated with an Object Map Constructor to recognize the location of the selected object within sight of the camera of the robot. To improve the accuracy, the Object Map Constructor uses the machine learning library - TensorFlow to identify an object in the image captured from a camera installed in the robot. Then, the image and features gathered will be analyzed and placed in a 3D data structure for further comparison with the object images obtained through the smartphone. This will allow the Robot and Mobile Phone could share the same object pool and let the Robot knows what object the user wants to interact with.
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Polio vaccine fears spread panic in Pakistan
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Peshawar - More than 25,000 children were rushed to hospitals in northwest Pakistan after rumours spread that some had suffered reactions to a polio vaccine, officials said Tuesday.
Iran, Pakistan to set up border 'reaction force' after attacks
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Tehran - Iran and Pakistan will set up a joint border "reaction force" following deadly attacks on their frontier, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Monday after talks with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Pakistan says gunmen behind killing of 14 based in Iran
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Islamabad - The gunmen who killed 14 members of Pakistan's security forces in the country's southwest earlier this week came from Iran to carry out the attack, officials said Saturday.
Pakistan says gunmen behind killing of 14 based in Iran
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Islamabad - The gunmen who killed 14 members of Pakistan's security forces in the country's southwest earlier this week came from Iran to carry out the attack, officials said Saturday.
Pakistan's finance minister resigns ahead of IMF deal
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Islamabad - Pakistan's finance minister Asad Umar has stepped down, he announced Thursday, with no replacement yet named as Islamabad seeks a crucial bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund.
Separatist gunmen kill 14 bus passengers in Pakistan
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Quetta - Gunmen killed at least 14 people after forcing them to disembark from buses in Pakistan's Balochistan, officials said Thursday, in the latest attack claimed by separatists in the restive southwestern province.
Gunmen kill at least 14 bus passengers in Pakistan: official
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Quetta - Gunmen killed at least 14 people after forcing them to disembark from buses in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, officials said Thursday.
Islamic State claims deadly Pakistan fruit market bombing
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Quetta - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide blast in Pakistan's Quetta city on Friday that killed 20 people and left 48 more injured.
Suicide blast rips through Pakistani fruit market, killing 20
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Quetta - At least 20 people were killed and 48 wounded Friday by a powerful suicide blast apparently targeting the Shia Hazara ethnic minority at a crowded fruit market in Pakistan's Quetta city, officials said.
Pakistan takes media, diplomats on visit to Indian strike site
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Islamabad - Pakistan has escorted a group of foreign journalists and diplomats to the site of an Indian air strike to show that, contrary to Delhi's claims, no infrastructure was damaged, the military spokesman said.
Pakistan FM claims India planning military aggression
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Islamabad - Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday claimed his government had reliable intelligence that India was planning to carry out aggression against Pakistan later this month.India responded by accusing Qureshi of inciting "war hysteria....
Periods and 'dick pic' posters ignite feminist firestorm in Pakistan
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Lahore - "Anything you can do I can do while bleeding," read one defiant poster at a recent women's march in Pakistan, while another demanded: "Keep your dick pics to yourself". Then came the backlash, including rape and death threats.
Murder of child maid forces Pakistan to soul search
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Lahore - The battered body of 16-year-old servant Uzma Bibi was found dumped in a canal and her wealthy employer charged with murder, the latest case highlighting the dangers domestic workers -- especially children -- face in Pakistan.
Pakistanis seek world record in ancient sport of tent-pegging
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Multan - Traditional drumbeats and melodious shahnai flutes are drowned out by thundering hooves in the small Pakistani city of Tulamba, as riders pound down a dusty track seeking world record glory in the ancient sport of tent-pegging.
Pakistan says it found no links to Kashmir suicide blast
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Islamabad - Pakistan Thursday said it had found no links between militants swept up in a recent dragnet and a suicide attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month that brought the nuclear-armed rivals to the brink of war.
US sets up UN clash with China over bid to blacklist JeM leader
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New York - The United States on Wednesday circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that would blacklist the leader of a Pakistan-based Islamist group as a terrorist, setting up a potential clash with China over the move.
Pakistan hands India findings on Kashmir militant attack
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Islamabad - Islamabad said Wednesday it had handed New Delhi "preliminary findings" over a major suicide attack in Kashmir claimed by Pakistan-based militants, adding it would now seek more evidence from India for its investigation into the bombing.
Pakistan court jails Czech model to 8 years for drug trafficking
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Lahore - A Pakistani court sentenced a Czech national to over eight years in prison, more than a year after being arrested in the eastern city of Lahore for trafficking eight and a half kilograms of heroin.
Pakistan to award 'courage' of citizen killed in Christchurch
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Islamabad - A Pakistani victim of the Christchurch attack who apparently tried to tackle the gunman before being shot dead will be awarded posthumously in his home country for his courage, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Sunday.
Pakistan's crackdown on militants fails to convince sceptics
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Islamabad - At a mosque on a quiet Islamabad street, any reference to the UN-listed terror group which runs it has been removed as Pakistan -- once again -- comes under pressure to demonstrate its sincerity about eliminating militancy.
Pakistan, India hold 'positive' talks on Sikh visits
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Islamabad - Pakistan and India held "very positive" talks Thursday, as the arch-rivals sat down to discuss a visa-free corridor for Sikh pilgrims just weeks after soaring tensions brought the two nuclear-armed powers to the brink of war.
India disappointed as China blocks bid to ban JeM chief
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New Delhi - India said Thursday it was "disappointed" by China again delaying a bid to blacklist the leader of a Pakistan-based militant group that claimed a massive suicide bombing in Kashmir last month.
China delays UN bid to blacklist JeM leader as terrorist
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New York - China on Wednesday put on hold a request by Britain, France and the United States to add the leader of a Pakistan-based Islamist group behind a suicide attack in Kashmir to the UN terror blacklist, diplomats said.
Pakistan insists will deal 'firmly' with militants: Trump advisor
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Washington - Pakistan promises to crack down on militant groups attacking Indian rule over Kashmir, President Donald Trump's national security advisor John Bolton said Monday.
'Key conspirator' of Kashmir attack shot dead: Indian police
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Srinagar - Indian police said Monday that one of the "key conspirators" behind a suicide attack that killed at least 40 troops in Kashmir had died in a shootout with government forces.
Pakistan — the other great home of the bagpipes
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Sialkot - Umer Farooq's grandfather and father made bagpipes. Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres from Scotland yet sells thousands of bagpipes each year.
Bodies of missing Italian, Brit found on Pakistan mountain
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Islamabad - The bodies of two climbers from Britain and Italy have been found in northern Pakistan nearly two weeks after the pair went missing, the Italian ambassador said Saturday.
For Pakistani Kashmiris, a sense of the grave inside their bunkers
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Chaudhry Hakam Deen has a bunker -- a cold, damp hole dug in the ground -- next to his home where he and his family have often taken refuge amid soaring tensions with India.Spending the night inside, he said, "feels like sitting in a graveyard".
India slams Pakistan action against militants
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New Delhi - India said Saturday that its army is on a "strict vigil" for new attacks from Pakistan and renewed warnings to its neighbour to take concrete action against militant groups.
Facts and alternative facts between India and Pakistan
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New Delhi - India and Pakistan have retreated from the brink of possible war but an information conflict still rages over their tit-for-tat air strikes and an aerial dogfight between the nuclear-armed arch rivals.
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Attabad Lake: The lake was formed by a landslide in January 2010. Location: Attabad, Hunza, Pakistan.
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Income Inequality, Polarization of Societies Biggest Long-Term Impact on Arab World
[yt_dropcap type="square" font="" size="14″ color="#000″ background="#fff" ] R [/yt_dropcap]ising income and wealth disparity is the trend likely to most affect the Arab world in the coming years. Polarization of societies could have the second-largest impact, followed by cyber-dependency and climate change. Based on the results of surveys conducted among a group of global experts and businesses from the region, these findings are part of the briefing on the New Economic Context for the Arab World.
Based on data published in previous flagship publications of the World Economic Forum such as the Global Risks Report 2017 and the Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017, the briefing highlights how the economic context for the region is expected to change in the future, its current status of competitiveness and the challenges it will need to address.
Rising income inequality is the trend that is perceived to have the highest potential impact for most countries, as businesses throughout the region show their concern about unemployment (61% in Jordan), profound social instability (47% in Tunisia) and failure of national governance (49% in Lebanon). Polarization of society also has the potential to trigger governance issues and even state collapse, a concrete risk in Yemen (68% of businesses selected it as a risk of major concern) and in the minds of one-third of the executives in Lebanon.
Cyber-dependency and climate change are also expected to have a significant impact on the region. Countries with more advanced ICT environments are more likely to be prone to the threats linked to cyber-dependency. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for example, one-third of companies say they are worried about cyber-attacks and one in 10 sees data fraud as a risk of major concern.
Countries with more fragile environmental and geographic conditions are less likely to succeed in adapting to climate change and its consequences. Businesses in Jordan (60%) and Qatar (34%) are worried about water crises, as both countries have already experienced shortages in recent years.
Beyond the consequences of these global trends, the region is prone to a number of risks that are specific to its current economic structure, and in particular the oil-exporting economies. In 2016, 42% of businesses were concerned about the consequences of energy price shocks in Saudi Arabia, 45% in Qatar, 49% in Bahrain, 50% in the UAE, 52% in Oman and 62% in Kuwait. Fiscal crises are also on the watch list of executives in the region, staying high in the minds of 31% of them in Saudi Arabia, 34% in Kuwait, 41% in Algeria and 47% in Bahrain. Finally, asset bubbles concerned 39% of executives in Qatar, 43% in Kuwait and 51% in the UAE.
In addition to the macroeconomic environment, the functioning of the labour market is also challenging. With a large portion of women out of the workforce and high unemployment among the youth, the region is not best leveraging its talent. Upgrading the higher education and training system will need to go hand-in-hand with the improvement of labour market policies, as these are some of the areas where the gap with advanced economies remains largest.
Increasing capacity to innovate and technological readiness will also be key to driving the forces of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and benefiting from them. Increasingly, there are positive examples, but these will need to scale up and new technologies spread out for the countries to increase productivity and prosper in an inclusive manner.
The absence of internationally comparable data for many countries in the region does not allow a full assessment of their level of inclusivity. For these countries, improving data availability will be a key step in ensuring that the needs of their populations are addressed.
Diversifying the economy, reducing public intervention in the markets, providing opportunities for young people and improving the innovation ecosystem are the key challenges that the region will face in the coming years. They will be the subject of further research to be conducted jointly with the World Bank Group in preparing the Arab World Competitiveness Report 2017.
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War in Libya: A rare instance of US-Russian cooperation
There is little that Russia and the United States agree on these days. Renegade Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar may be a rare exception.
As Mr. Haftar's mortars rained on the southern suburbs of the Libyan capital Tripoli and fighting between his Libyan National Army (LNA) and the United Nations-recognized government expanded to the south of the country, both Russia and the United States stopped a call for a ceasefire from being formally tabled in the UN Security Council.
Russia, which has joined US allies that include the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and France, in supporting Mr. Haftar because of his grip on Libya's oil resources and assertions that Islamists dominate the Tripoli government, objected to the British draft resolution because it blamed the rebel officer for the fighting.
The United States gave no reason for its objection. Yet, it shares Russia's aversion to Islamists and clearly did not want to break ranks with some of its closest Middle Eastern allies, certainly not at a time that the UN was investigating allegations that the UAE had shipped weapons to Mr. Haftar in violation of an international arms embargo.
The significance of US-Russian agreement on Mr. Haftar's geopolitical value goes far beyond Libya. It reveals much of how presidents Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin see the crafting of a new world order. It also says a great deal about Russian objectives in the Middle East and North Africa.
Messrs. Trump and Putin's preference for a man with a questionable human rights record who, if successful, would likely rule Libya as an autocrat, reflects the two leaders' belief that stability in the Middle East and North Africa is best guaranteed by autocratic rule or some democratic façade behind which men with military backgrounds control the levers of power.
It is a vision of the region promoted by representatives of UAE crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed who sees authoritarian stability as the best anti-dote to popular Arab revolts that swept the region in 2011 and more recently in Algeria and Sudan are proving to have a second lease on life.
Underlying the Trump-Putin understanding is a tacit agreement among the world's illiberal, authoritarian and autocratic leaders on the values that would underwrite a new world order. It is an agreement that in cases like Libya reduces rivalry among world powers to a fight about the divvying up of the pie rather than the concepts such as human and minority rights that should undergird the new order.
Moscow's support for Mr. Haftar serves Russia's broader vision of the Middle East and North Africa as an arena in which Russia can successfully challenge the United States even if Messrs. Trump and Putin agree on what side to support in a Libyan civil war that is aggravated by the interference of foreign powers.
Russia national security scholar Stephen Blank argues that Mr. Putin's strategy is rooted in the thinking of Yevgeny Primakov, a Russian Middle East expert, linguist and former spymaster, foreign minister and deputy prime minister.
Mr. Primakov saw the Middle East as a key arena for countering the United States that would enable Russia, weakened by the demise of the Soviet Union and economic problems, to regain its status as a global and regional power and ensure that it would be one pole in a multi-polar world.
"In order to reassert Russia's greatness, Primakov and Putin aimed ultimately at strategic denial, denying Washington sole possession of a dominant role in the Middle East from where US influence could expand to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)" established in the wake of the demise of the Soviet Union to group post-Soviet states, Mr. Blank said.
Messrs. Primakov and Putin believed that if Russia succeeded it would force the United States to concede multi-polarity and grant Russia the recognition it deserves. That, in turn, would allow Mr. Putin to demonstrate to the Russian elite his ability to restore great power status.
Syria offered Russia the opportunity to display its military prowess without the United States challenging the move. At the same time, Russia leveraged its political and economic clout to forge an alliance with Turkey and partner with Iran. The approach served to defang Turkish and Iranian influence in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Mr. Blank argued.
Similarly, Russia after brutally repressing religiously inspired Chechen rebels in the 1990s and despite the lingering memory of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, has in line with UAE precepts, proven to be far defter than either China or the United States at promoting politically pacifist or apolitical loyalist Islam in a complex game of playing both sides against the middle.
Russian engagement runs the gamut from engaging with militants to cooperating with Muslim autocrats to encouraging condemnation of activist strands of ultra-conservative Islam to hedging its bets by keeping its lines open to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA).
Even if Russia may be walking a tightrope in balancing its relationships with Mr. Haftar and GNA Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, like in Syria, it is positioning itself with the backing of the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt as the potential mediator that maintains ties to both sides of the divide.
Said Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov: "We believe that Libya's future must be determined by the Libyans themselves. We are convinced that there is no alternative to an inclusive intra-Libyan dialogue… Our work on this track proceeds in this spirit and the belief that there is no alternative to preserving the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Libya."
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Battling for the Future: Arab Protests 2.0
Momentous developments across Arab North and East Africa suggest the long-drawn-out process of political transition in the region as well as the greater Middle East is still in its infancy.
So does popular discontent in Syria despite eight years of devastating civil war and Egypt notwithstanding a 2013 military coup that rolled back the advances of protests in 2011 that toppled Hosni Mubarak and brought one of the country's most repressive regimes to power.
What developments across northern Africa and the Middle East demonstrate is that the drivers of the 2011 popular revolts that swept the region and forced the leaders of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen to resign not only still exist but constitute black swans that can upset the apple cart at any moment.
The developments also suggest that the regional struggle between forces of change and ancien regimes and militaries backed by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia is far from decided.
If anything, protesters in Algeria and Sudan have learnt at least one lesson from the failed 2011 results: don't trust militaries even if they seemingly align themselves with demonstrators and don't surrender the street until protesters' demands have been fully met.
Distrust of the military has prompted an increasing number of Sudanese protesters to question whether chanting "the people and the army are one" is still appropriate. Slogans such as "freedom, freedom" and "revolution, revolution" alongside calls on the military to protect the protesters have become more frequent.
The protests in Algeria and Sudan have entered a critical phase in which protesters and militaries worried that they could be held accountable for decades of economic mismanagement, corruption and repression are tapping in the dark.
With protesters emboldened by their initial successes in forcing leaders to resign, both the demonstrators and the militaries, including officers with close ties to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are internally divided about how to proceed.
Moreover, neither side has any real experience in managing the crossroads at which they find themselves while it is dawning on the militaries that their tired playbooks are not producing results.
In a telling sign, Sudan's interim leader Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan praised his country's "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia and the UAE as he met this week with a Saudi-Emirati delegation at the military compound in Khartoum, a focal point of the protests.
Saudi Arabia has expressed support for the protests in what many suspect is part of an effort to ensure that Sudan does not become a symbol of the power of popular sovereignty and its ability to defeat autocracy.
The ultimate outcome of the dramatic developments in Algeria and Sudan and how the parties manoeuvre is likely to have far-reaching consequences in a region pockmarked by powder kegs ready to explode.
Mounting anger as fuel shortages caused by Western sanctions against Syria and Iran bring life to a halt in major Syrian cities have sparked rare and widespread public criticism of president Bashar al-Assad's government.
The anger is fuelled by reports that government officials cut in line at petrol stations to fill up their tanks and buy rationed cooking gas and take more than is allowed.
Syria is Here, an anonymous Facebook page that reports on economics in government-controlled areas took officials to task after state-run television showed oil minister Suleiman al-Abbas touring petrol stations that showed no signs of shortage.
"Is it so difficult to be transparent and forward? Would that undermine anyone's prestige? We are a country facing sanctions and boycotted. The public knows and is aware," the Facebook page charged.
The manager of Hashtag Syria, another Facebook page, was arrested when the site demanded that the oil ministry respond to reports of anticipated price hikes with comments rather than threats. The site charged that the ministry was punishing the manager "instead of dealing with the real problem."
Said Syrian journalist Danny Makki: "It (Syria) is a pressure cooker."
Similarly, authorities in Egypt, despite blocking its website, have been unable to stop an online petition against proposed constitutional amendments that could extend the rule of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi until 2034 from attracting more than 320,000 signatures as of this writing.
The petition, entitled Batel or Void, is, according to Netblocks, a group that maps web freedom, one of an estimated 34,000 websites blocked by Egyptian internet service providers in a bid to stymie opposition to the amendments.
Mr. El-Sisi is a reminder of how far Arab militaries and their Gulf backers are potentially willing to go in defense of their vested interests and willingness to oppose popular sovereignty.
Libyan renegade Field Marshall Khalifa Belqasim Haftar is another, Mr. Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) is attacking the capital Tripoli, the seat of the United Nations recognized Libyan government that he and his Emirati, Saudi, and Egyptian backers accuse of being dominated by Islamist terrorists.
The three Arab states' military and financial support of Mr. Haftar is but the tip of the iceberg. Mr. Haftar has modelled his control of much of Libya on Mr. El-Sisi's example of a military that not only dominates politics but also the economy.
As a result, the LNA is engaged in businesses ranging from waste management, metal scrap and waste export, and agricultural mega projects to the registration of migrant labour workers and control of ports, airports and other infrastructure. The LNA is also eyeing a role in the reconstruction of Benghazi and other war-devastated or underdeveloped regions.
What for now makes 2019 different from 2011 is that both sides of the divide realize that success depends on commitment to be in it for the long haul. Protesters, moreover, understand that trust in military assertions of support for the people can be self-defeating. They further grasp that they are up against a regional counterrevolution that has no scruples.
All of that gives today's protesters a leg up on their 2011 counterparts. The jury is out on whether that will prove sufficient to succeed where protesters eight years ago failed.
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As Marsha Lazareva languishes in jail, foreign businesses will "think twice" before investing in Kuwait
IF THERE IS one thing to glean from the case of Marsha Lazareva, it's that foreign businesses must now think very carefully before investing in Kuwait.
For more than a year, Lazareva, who has a five-year-old son and is one of Russia's most successful female investors in the Gulf, has been held in the Soulabaiya prison by Kuwaiti authorities. Those authorities claim she 'stole' half a billion dollars, a claim she strenuously denies.
Human rights groups and prominent officials, including the former FBI director, Louis Freeh, and Jim Nicholson, former Chairman of the Republican Party and former US Ambassador to the Vatican, have called for her release and expressed concerns about the apparent absence of due process in a country where Lazareva has worked for over 13 years. Both Freeh and Nicholson visited Kuwait in recent weeks with Neil Bush, son of the late President George H. W. Bush. Bush has said Lazareva's incarceration 'threatens to darken relations between the U.S. and Kuwait, two countries that have enjoyed a long and prosperous relationship.'
Russian officials have been equally concerned. Vladimir Platonov, the President of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry, confirmed that a single witness gave testimony in Kuwaiti court, and only for the prosecution. 'I myself worked in prosecution for more than eight years, and I cannot imagine any judge signing off on an indictment like this,' he said. 'One fact of particular note is that Maria was given 1,800 pages of untranslated documents in Arabic.'
Serious questions surrounding the safety and future viability of investing in Kuwait are now being raised. Through The Port Fund, a private investment company managed by KGL Investment, Lazareva has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to local infrastructure and economic development projects during her time in the country. Until 2017, when a Dubai bank froze $496 million without cause, she had worked largely unobstructed.
But as things stand, more foreign investment is unlikely to be forthcoming. Jim Nicholson has said that the 'imprisonment and harassment' of Lazareva 'threatens' U.S. support. adding that the 'willingness of the U.S. to do business with Kuwait' is based on 'its record as a nation that respects human rights and the rule of law'. Mark Williams, the investment director of The Port Fund and a colleague of Lazareva's, has called on international investors to 'think twice before doing business in this country'.
These comments will surely concern the Kuwaiti government, who said last year that FDI was 'very crucial' to the success of its Kuwait Vision 2035 road map. In September 2018, the FTreported that the government planned to reverse its traditional position as an investor in order to diversify its economy, carrying out a series of reforms designed to facilitate foreign investment and assist investors.
But despite these changes, which have propelled Kuwait to 96th—higher than the Middle East average—in the World Bank's 'Ease of Doing Business' report, investors may be unwilling to take the risk so long as Lazareva remains in jail. Lazareva's lawyers have accused Kuwait of violating international law by breaching a long-standing bilateral investment treaty with Russia. Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC has brought the case to the attention of the British public and the EU, writing in The Times that 'there is no evidential basis to justify any claim of dishonesty, corruption or any other criminal wrong'. He added: 'Anyone thinking of doing business in Kuwait should read on with mounting concern.'
What's worth remembering is that Kuwait is an important, long-standing ally of the UK, and a country generally seen as stable and fair. It is equally a major non-NATO ally of the United States, where there are more than 5,000 international students of Kuwaiti origin in higher education. But these relationships, and the investment to which they have historically led, have been cast into doubt. And it now seems certain that relations will continue to sour so long as Marsha Lazareva languishes in Soulabaiya.
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Book review: Creative Place-Based Environmental Education
By Jorunn Barane, Askel Hugo and Morten Clemetsen
In his forward to "Creative Place-Based Environmental Education," Prescott College Professor Doug Hulmes recounts how he gained deepened insight into the way place-based stories can expand our understanding when on a "storying wander" in Norway with the three authors of this book.
The stories, told by the accomplished storytellers who accompanied the group, provided a window into the lives of people there generations before them, people who sometimes saw the same place in quite different ways.
He goes on to say that in this book, "the authors hope to share ways that teachers, students, storytellers, entrepreneurs, farmers, children, refugees, and people with special needs can come together through a carefully designed and meaningful curriculum based on gardening and local agriculture," and that "this can greatly enhance what has been taught in our schools and separated into subjects that are too often disconnected and lack relevance."
And indeed this is a remarkable and important book, especially for today's world, where too many of our children grow up without much connection to the place that sustains them.
While this disconnection might be somewhat less the case here in Prescott, the rules for what constitutes education comes top down from cities far away. The book seeks to find a common ground so that standards coming from the top can be enriched by "information, experience, wisdom, and creativity from the local and regional" communities.
The authors engage readers with colorful stories and examples, mixed occasionally with educational theory, followed by clear and practical suggestions for those actually planning curricula for children for 4 to 18 in programs that might occur in drastically different settings and circumstances.
Doug Hulmes will be at the Peregrine Book Company to talk about this book on Thursday, March 21 at 5:30 p.m.
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