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Men walk past riot police vehicles on guard outside the presidential palace in Cairo (REUTERS/Amr Dalsh).

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From Bad Cop to Good Cop: The Challenge of Security Sector Reform in Egypt

November 19, 2012, Omar Ashour

Omar Ashour discusses the political dynamics of transforming Egypt’s security establishment. Ashour lays out the workings of the Mubarak regime's repressive security apparatus and assesses current reform initiatives. He concludes the success of Egypt's revolution hinges on effective security sector reform.

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    The Republican and Democratic Conventions – Who Came Out Ahead?

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    Bill Clinton was born into a poor, white family in a small town...There's nothing in Obama's background that has given him anything like the visceral understanding of that slice of America that Bill Clinton has in his bones, just because he grew up with it.

    September 6, 2012, William A. Galston, Bloomberg

  • In the News

    What [President Obama] now has to propose is there's still hope for change. That it's not too late to invest in him for change. And that's a tough sell.

    September 6, 2012, Jonathan Rauch, CBS News

  • In the News

    [Obama's] speech in 2004 and campaign in 2008 were wildly unrealistic in promising a post-partisan future... Our parties are ideologically polarized and intensely tribal.

    September 5, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, Washington Times

  • In the News

    He [President Obama] understands that what he was doing four years ago was more pertinent to the challenges of 2008... Like any successful politician, he has made some adjustments.

    September 4, 2012, William A. Galston, The Telegraph

  • In the News

    We rarely see protests [within the Democratic Party]. They have much more serious and pragmatic delegates who are in the game for winning, not for ideologically purity...I don’t know if we’d say the same thing about the Republican Party today, given that it does have a strong libertarian wing to it.

    September 4, 2012, Sarah A. Binder, Washington Times

  • In the News

    [Romney's acceptance speech was] exactly the wrong speech. It was a 'who am I,' when what the electorate needed from him was a 'what I will do', address.

    August 31, 2012, Stephen Hess, Bloomberg

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    The old rule-of-thumb was that to win the nomination you first win your base and then move to the middle. Both Obama and Romney are being forced to play it closer to their bases than in the past.

    August 24, 2012, Stephen Hess, The Associated Press

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