CIAO DATE: 08/2014
September 2013
A new Atlantic Council report, US and EU: Lack of Strategic Vision, Frustrated Efforts Toward the Arab Transitions, argues the United States and its European allies lack strategic vision in supporting the Arab countries that embarked in 2011 on a democratic path—Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen—and have not lived up to their stated commitments for robust support. While the European Union (EU) and the United States have tried to advance specific assistance initiatives in the transitioning countries—some of which were announced more than two years ago—they have not made as much headway as hoped over the past year. In part, the lack of progress is due to serious political and security challenges in these countries, yet bureaucratic delays, insufficient funding, and inadequate political will in Brussels and Washington also hampered success.
Resource link: US and EU: Lack of Strategic Vision, Frustrated Efforts Toward the Arab Transitions [PDF] - 1.1M