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WHITE HOUSE AND THE WORLD POLICY BRIEF

Modernizing US Security and Development Assistance in the Middle East
Nazanin Ash
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Allison Grossman
July 20, 2015
US strategy in the Middle East and North Africa has not changed in the past 40 years, favoring security approaches over political and economic development, narrow partnerships with select regime elements over broader engagement with governments and people, and short-term responses and interventions ...
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Turning a Page on Egypt?
Nazanin Ash
April 01, 2015
The Obama administration released a remarkable set of decisions on Egypt policy yesterday which, if followed through and supported by Congress, could signal a dramatic shift for US-Egypt relations.
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A New Day for Egyptians?
Nazanin Ash
March 12, 2015
The Government of Egypt launches its much-touted Egypt Economic Development Conference in Sharm El Sheikh this week, and has pulled out all the stops to lure foreign investors. 
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Fulfilling Tunisia’s Promise: What Has the US Learned?

Nazanin Ash
and
Allison Grossman
February 23, 2015
Recently Tunisia has cemented its reputation as the brightest hope to emerge from the Arab Spring and we are heartened by the response to this progress, with  President Obama requesting a more than doubling of US assistance to Tunisia in his  2016 budget request.