Egypt

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  July 15, 2020

  Why the Nile Constitutes a New Kind of Water Dispute – and Why That’s Dangerous

  By Peter Schwartzstein Ever since workers first broke ground on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, international commenters have fixated on the Nile as a possible harbinger of future ‘water wars’ to come. And almost since then, water experts have pushed back against that narrative. There’s no reason for such giddy pessimism, they…

• June 12, 2019

  Release: New Report on Converging Nuclear Energy, Climate and Security Risks in Egypt

  Washington, DC, June 12, 2019 – Today the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) released a new report, titled “Nuclear Energy Developments, Climate Change, and Security in Egypt,” through its Converging Risks Lab program. The report explores the ways in which nuclear, climate and security trends are converging in this critical country – an under-explored yet…