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Opponents of ousted President Mohammed Morsi stand next to a poster of Egyptian Defense Minister General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi.

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Analysis & Opinions - The Atlantic

General Sisi's Greatest Enemy: The Egyptian Economy

| March 27, 2014

Now that military strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared his intention to run for Egypt’s presidency, he should keep something in mind: Both Hosni Mubarak and his successor, Mohammed Morsi, weren’t only ousted from the country’s highest office because they suppressed political and constitutional rights, writes Ben Heineman. They also fell because fitful economic reforms failed to address poverty and near-poverty, high unemployment, extremely high youth unemployment, and unchecked inflation.

Analysis & Opinions - The Atlantic

Egypt's Economic Winter

| Dec. 18, 2012

The international media have made a huge story out of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's power-consolidating decrees and the balloting on his proposed constitution. How the fundamental political disputes -- between factions of the religious and secular, Islamic and Christian, and civilian and military, and between rich and poor and urban and rural -- will be resolved in the Middle East's most populous nation is seen as a harbinger for the political impact of the Arab Spring.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks to Afghans in Argandab district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Karzai flew to southern Afghanistan to meet with more than 200 tribal elders and seek their support for his gove

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Analysis & Opinions - The Atlantic

The Afghan Black Hole: Governance and Corruption

| October 24, 2010

Addressing governance and corruption in a failed state like Afghanistan would be enormously challenging if they were "just" issues of development, but the "development" of Afghanistan, of course, takes place in the midst of a fierce civil war and intense regional rivalries and interference under what most experts consider a wholly unrealistic deadline (progress by next summer).

President Barack Obama meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 28, 2010. (AP Photo)

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Analysis & Opinions - Harvard Business Review

Obama's Afghan Dilemma: Managing Hamid Karzai

| March 31, 2010

"President Obama has committed the prestige of the United States, his personal credibility, billions of taxpayer dollars and, most importantly, the lives of American military personnel to a war which depends — as his top generals, Petraeus and McChrystal have said — on attaining a key civilian, not military, objective: creating an Afghan state with security, order, rule of law and accountable institutions that protects and serves its people. That goal depends on defeating the corruption and instability which have plagued Afghanistan for centuries."