66 Results for:
Filters

April 4, 2012

Lebanon
Will Assad Return To Killing Lebanese Leaders?

Throughout the past decade there have been a series of assassinations and attempted murders of political leaders in Lebanon. Almost all of these plots have one common element: the person whose life w…

Samir Geagea
Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

October 20, 2012

Middle East and North Africa
Syria’s New Attack on Lebanon

Fears are expressed almost every day that the war in Syria will spread to Lebanon, or to all of Syria’s neighbors. The problem, however, is not that the war "will spread" as if by nature, inevitably,…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

December 15, 2015

Iran
Lebanon’s "Worthless" Government and the Fight Over the Presidency

It is rare for the prime minister of any country to call its government “worthless,” but Prime Minister Tammam Salam of Lebanon just did. For 19 months Lebanon has been unable to elect a president, a…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

August 18, 2012

Israel
Tunisia’s Shame

The existence of "World Jerusalem Day" is itself a source of shame to all its "celebrants", for it has now become a day when orgies of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric are produced.  In Iran thi…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

September 12, 2014

Trade
The Failures of the ASEAN Economic Community

Next year, the long-awaited ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will come into effect, welcomed surely by fanfare both from the organization and from all of the ten member states. Long promised by ASEAN c…

jakarta-international-container-terminal
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound