The situation in Egypt continues to evolve. President Morsi has dismissed two top military leaders in an attempt to establish civilian control over the Egyptian state. It is a bold move, and it it isn’t yet clear the extent to which the military has accepted the move. If successful, however, the move holds great promise for the development of Egyptian civil society.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon made a rather dramatic statement to Israel Radio yesterday. He “called on the international community to declare the diplomatic channel with Iran over its nuclear program a failure.” When pressed for details about how much longer the world should rely on the US strategy of embargoes and sanctions, Ayalon replied “several weeks.” The language signals a very different timeline than the one seemingly held by the Obama Administration, and it is very difficult to believe that President Obama would want an attack before the November election.
Mitt Romney has selected Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to be his Vice-Presidential candidate. The selection has a number of dimensions, but one is pertinent to our interests: there is virtually no foreign policy experience on the Republican slate. Foreign policy is rarely a major issue in US elections, and there have been a number of American Presidents with little or no foreign policy experience. But the US has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, and it is hard to imagine how foreign policy could count for so little. Some of the foreign press have weighed in on the selection.
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