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Please join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East program for a public discussion marking the launch of a new edited volume, “From Hardware to Holism: Re-balancing America s Security Engagement with Arab States.”
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Summary: U.S. security policy with Arab states has long needed a major overhaul. This compendium presents different arguments and proposals for how the United States can do just this.
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Long before recent calls to downsize the U.S. military presence in Arab countries and end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. security policy in the region needed rebalancing and a major overhaul. Recent developments such as the global rise of China, nonmilitary challenges including the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, America’s growing energy independence, and rapid advances in technology have cast into sharp relief the anachronistic nature of a military-led approach. In this evolving landscape it now seems dusty and out of date, the relic of a bygone era.
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Four things President Biden can do that will make a real difference in the Middle East
The Biden administration should immediately restore funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). Donald Trump had cut off $300 million of funding that went toward educating nearly half a million children, vaccinations and health clinics for 3 million refugees, and other essential support. These funds are tangible actions that save lives and signal a departure from Trump’s mean-spirited policies.
Joe Biden should also unfreeze the $200 million in Syria stabilization funding that Trump put on ice right after declaring that the U.S. would be leaving Syria “very soon” and letting “other people take care of it.” Of course that decision was reversed, but the funds’ suspension was not. While the original funding was for the northeast, support is also needed for Idlib, where 3 million people are huddled in extreme weather conditions,
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Summary: Ten years after its protests sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia remains the lone country in the Middle East to have effectively changed its system of governance. Yet many Tunisians have mixed feelings about how much progress their country has made.
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On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Tunisian uprisings that toppled a twenty-three-year dictatorship and ignited the Arab Spring, the revolution’s balance sheet is still being debated. We asked twenty-three Tunisians from different regions and backgrounds to reflect on the successes and failures of the last decade and to describe the steps needed to move Tunisia forward. Their answers varied, and many stressed that ten years is a short time to assess the impact of a revolution. However, most agreed that the popular revolts achieved three main outcomes. First, they led to t