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Mark A. Heller is a Principal Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, and for many years edited its quarterly journal, Strategic Assessment.

Successive regimes in Guinea have used mining to maintain the status quo.

Dr. Yoel Guzansky is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) specializing in Gulf politics & security. Dr. Guzansky was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, an Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. He served on Israel's National Security Council in the Prime Minister's Office, coordinating the work on Iran and the Gulf under four National Security Advisers and three Prime Ministers. He is c...

Happened with the saudi oil facilities. i think egypt is really concerned with regime stability. essentially. im just amazed at the courage and bravery of those young people in the streets. >> were always, always grateful to have your input and your expertise. thank you. >> thank you. much more ahead on the news room, but first, this weeks cnn hero hails from los angeles where officials report the number of adults living the streets is up 16%. three types a week, superior court judge craig mit...

Believed the nuclear program was their security and it provided them with regime stability and security. weve now flipped the narrative. i believe we have convinced the nuclear program presents a threat to him. >> is the kim regime so convinced that the secretary seems to think they are, in the past 10 days in the summit they havent done much to take a step towards denuclearization, towards inviting inspectors in and giving up nuclear weapons. >> pompeo second trip to north korea. he has north k...

Complete denuclearization. in exchange for that, we will provide security assurances. hugh, u.n. the story well. for decades, kim, his father, grandfather alike believed the nuclear program was their security out. it provided them with regime stability and security. we have now flipped that narrative. i believe we have convinced him that nuclear program in fact, presents a threat to him and giving it up is a path towards a brighter future for the north korean people. >> what she like, mr. secret...

No doubt. >> mieke, thats the assumption of previous presidents going back to bill clinton and certainly w. the assumption that the north koreans are rational in terms of cost benefit. that if their nuclear program was costing them to be isolated from the world, to be impoverished forever, they would choose against it. but they havent been that way. they havent been logical that way. just like lbj thought he could buy the north vietnamese with a big economic -- like the tva, the tennessee valley...

Denuclearization? >> i think they want to do. i know they want to do that. they want other things along the line. they want to develop as a country. thats going to happen. i have no doubt. >> mieke, thats the assumption of previous presidents going back to bill clinton and certainly w. the assumption that the north koreans are rational in terms of cost benefit. if their nuclear program was costing them to be isolated from the world, to be impoverished forever, they would choose against it. they ...

The reason why this is a suckers deal is. this its quite simple. the only reason that the iranys are at the table the economic sanctions are so strict and harsh right now that the regime stability is threatened. the only way iran would ever give up nukes, ever, is if the regime has a sense that it is threatened. thats the only thing that would stop them. and they are now beginning to worry about economic instability in the country. here we are at a point of maximum leverage. what does this so-ca...