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H1 Chatham House/ESRC paper examines the development of global security Report full text [PDF]

Independent Blair: Europe must reform to cope with globalisation Tony Blair outlined a range of targets for closer European co-operation yesterday and laid down a fresh challenge to the European Union to reform to deal with globalisation

National Intelligence Strategy Office of the DNI 26 Oct 2005 -- The Director of National Intelligence released The National Intelligence Strategy of the US of America US National Intell Strategy (pdf)

CFR - Security experts James F. Dobbins and David J. Rothkopf debate the National Security Council’s role in U.S. foreign policymaking. October 24, 2005

Der Spiegel Between Democracy and Civil War As of this week, Iraq is a democracy. On paper. But for this experiment to work, Iraq's new elite has to think beyond ethnic and religious categories. The threat of civil war continues to loom if the once-powerful Sunni minority gets shut out. By Yassin Musharbash

Christian Science Monitor A new Sunni strategy After failing to defeat Iraq's charter, Sunni Arab parties are merging - with an anti-US agenda.

Asia Times The Sunni optionWhile the Sunnis in Iraq know they have lost a battle, the war is still there to be fought. They will bide their time and attempt to sabotage the system, unless they are assured that the new Iraq is not just a euphemism for a permanent loss of their power. - Ehsan Ahrari

Financial Times Talk persists of central banks shifting reserves from dollar Talk of central banks diversifying their $4,000bn foreign exchange reserves away from the dollar is a constant refrain.


The Times Anatole Kaletsky Galileo and Copernicus Alan Greenspan will take pride of place when historians try to understand the transformation to the modern global economy

David Corn More Leak Scandal Speculation/A Friday Prediction/A Bet for Cliff May

Foreign Affairs November/ December 2005

H2 Partnership Is No Privilege: The Alternative to EU Membership is no Turkish DelightRoyal Institute for International AffairsA 9-page briefing paper criticising the concept of "privileged partnership" as an alternative to full EU accession for Turkey

FT Turkey's bank puts reforms in place Turkey’s central bank is about to implement introduce the last phase of a project lasting nearly four years its nearly four-year mission to bring some consistency and transparency to the conduct of monetary policy. In January, the bank will move to formal inflation targeting, bringing it into line with orthodox central banking practice...

Washington Post In a Reclaimed Village, Kurds' Future Unclear Charter Leaves Some Outside Regional Boundary

Opportunity Knocks In Syria's Unraveling By Jim Hoagland The unraveling of Syria's Baathist dictatorship provides a lifeboat for the unlikely trio of Kofi Annan, George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac. They need to row together to finish the job of holding Damascus accountable and to surmount the difficult seas that each faces on other fronts.

New York Times U.N. to Detail Kickbacks Paid for Iraq's Oil More than 4,500 companies took part in the oil-for-food program and more than half of them paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein

Los Angeles Times Anticipation Builds Over CIA Leak Investigation Prosecutor investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity meets with grand jury as panel's expiration nears.

SlateToday's Papers / Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec - antiwar.com / Wikipedia / technorati

EurasiaNet United States Urges Moderation as Azerbaijan’s Parliamentary Election Approaches BY ROVSHAN ISMAYILOVAmid Azerbaijan’s political tension, which in recent weeks has resulted in clashes between authorities and opposition supporters, US Ambassador Reno Harnish has emerged as perhaps the foremost advocate of moderation

Guardian Can Hampton Court be Europe's Great House of Easement? Timothy Garton Ash: Europe must change to meet the competition from Asia. Closing the Strasbourg parliament might be one way to start.


H3 Turkey and Europe

Turkey and the U.S.

Greek press on Cyprus and Turkey

Turkey and the Middle East

Turkey, Russia, Caucasus, C. Asia

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Turkey: Nine months in prison for journalist who “insulted” town’s deputy prefect

Kurdistani Islamic Union enters the coming elections independent

Iraqi Kurds Want MKO Leader Tried

Contending Cultures of Counterterrorism: Transatlantic Convergence or Divergence? Royal Institute for International Affairs This 20-page article examines the differences in response to terrorist attacks by the US and the UK and Spain

CER - East versus West? The European economic and social model after enlargementessay by Katinka Barysch, 26 October 2005

A manifesto for Europe: 20 steps to relaunch the EUJoint manifesto written by the CER and the Institut Montaigne

Eurostat release detailed study of European population trends Report full text [PDF 245kb] Press release [PFD]

CEPS This is the first state-of-the-art work on the process of democratisation in the wider European neighbourhood since the seminal events of 2004, with the EU's enlargement and the Orange, Rose and Cedar Revolutions beyond. Covering both the European CIS states and the Mediterranean Arab world, leading experts from these regions interpret the recent revolutions and prospects for further democratisation in the European neighbourhood. These analyses are accompanied by a comprehensive critique of the EU as promoter of democracy.

Daily Telegraph What we can learn from Norwegians Oslo's place in Efta but out of the EU has ensured wealth and health, says Daniel Hannan. Norwegians are the richest people in Europe, and the healthiest and happiest race in the world.
H4 New York Times U.N. to Detail Kickbacks Paid for Iraq's Oil More than 4,500 companies took part in the oil-for-food program and more than half of them paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein

Doubts Raised on Saudi Vow for More Oil Some U.S. officials are skeptical about Saudi Arabia 's assurances of how much it can expand its oil production capacity.

2,000 Dead, in Context
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Iraq's toll is tragic. But consider the battles of D-Day and Okinawa.

Good Jihad, Bad Jihad: Struggle for Arab Minds

Iran's New President Says Israel 'Must Be Wiped Off the Map'
Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills 5 in an Israeli Town
U.N. Reports Rising Flow of Arms From Syria Into Lebanon
3 Sunni Parties Form Bloc to Take Part in Iraq Vote
Hussein's Lawyers Refuse to Work With Iraqi Court
Germans Convict 4 in Plot to Hit at Jewish Sites
Spy Agencies Told to Bolster 'The Growth of Democracy'
Grand Jurors Hear Counsel on Leak Case Patrick J. Fitzgerald talked with the district judge in the case as the White House fretted in the expectation of possible indictments

Editorial Kosovo, Still Messy After All These Years
Even with the best of intentions, an independent Kosovo will require international forces and strong oversight for a long time.

Brooks Patching the Presidency
Second-term-itis is setting in: the president has been uncharacteristically out of step with the American people at key moments.

Herbert Driving Blind as the Deaths Pile Up Thousands upon thousands are suffering and dying in Iraq while, in Washington, incompetence continues its macabre marathon dance with incoherence.

Cow Politics
The developed world could lift 140 million people out of poverty if it really reformed the way it managed agricultural trade.

H5 Washington Post Opportunity Knocks In Syria's Unraveling By Jim Hoagland, The unraveling of Syria's Baathist dictatorship provides a lifeboat for the unlikely trio of Kofi Annan, George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac. They need to row together to finish the job of holding Damascus accountable and to surmount the difficult seas that each faces on other fronts.

Kurds' Future Unclear In a Reclaimed Village, Kurds' Future Unclear Charter Leaves Some Outside Regional Boundary

New Sunni Jihad: 'A Time for Politics' Tour With Iraqi Reveals Tactical Change Many Iraqi insurgents are canvassing for votes, marking a fundamental shift in strategy and separating them from the violence of foreign-born fighters.

Kerry Urges Withdrawal From Iraq
Senator's Timetable Specifies 15 Months

Negroponte Unveils Intelligence Strategy Director Highlights Fostering Growth of Foreign Democracies as a Top U.S. Goal

Final Decision Expected Friday in CIA Leak Case Summary presented to grand jury as White House officials brace for at least one senior administration official to be indicted, according to aides.

• Case Has Capital in Animated Suspense• Tina Brown: This Time, Prosecutor's a Corker• The Fix: Rove's Money Trail Key Players

Editorial Loss in Iraq "EACH LOSS of life is heartbreaking," President Bush said Tuesday, as the 2,000th death of an American soldier in Iraq was recorded. That is surely one thing about which everyone in an increasingly bitter and polarized debate regarding the war can agree. The sacrifice of American lives, and the...
New Sunni Jihad: 'A Time for Politics' Many Iraqi insurgents are canvassing for votes, marking a fundamental shift in strategy and separating them from the violence of foreign-born fighters.
Firms Paid Iraq Oil-for-Food Bribes, Report Alleges

Bowing To Russia By Natan Sharansky,
Two years ago this week, Russian law enforcement authorities, guns drawn, stormed Mikhail Khodorkovsky's plane. His arrest and imprisonment, and the insufficient response of the democratic world to his case, represent a great setback for the march of democracy in Russia.

We Don't Want a Hanoi Hilton By Richard Cohen

Will Anyone Pay the Bills? By David S. Broder,
Democrats need to help clean up the Bush Administration's fiscal mess by considering Social Security reform and cuts in entitlement spending.

H6 Guardian Can Hampton Court be Europe's Great House of Easement?Timothy Garton Ash: Europe must change to meet the competition from Asia. Closing the Strasbourg parliament might be one way to start.

Blair sets out vision for sweeping EU changes EU: Hopes that talks can break months of deadlock. Analysis: Nicholas WattLeader: Blair has another try Blair went some of the way towards convincing European parlimentarians that he has been forming the basis of a new start for the Union.

Iran attacked for Israel slur New president says Israel should be 'wiped off the face of the earth'.

'We don't need al-Qaida' Ghaith Abdul-Ahad goes behind the lines with Iraqi insurgents Sunnis form alliance to fight election

Iran faces up to its most lethal threat - drugs

White House awaits Plame fallout Inquiry into naming of CIA agent presents findings · Speculation continues over charges for top aides

By their friends shall we know the Sultans of BlingEd Vulliamy: Blair's relationships with Berlusconi, Bush and Murdoch have defined his premiership. Now Merkel is to join the trio.
H7 German Magazine: Iran Harboring al-Qaeda
Lessons of Democracy "Sinking In" - Austin Bay, RealClearPolitics

The Strange Saga of Cheney and the 'Nuclear Threat' by Jim Lobe

Who Will Control the Internet?By Kenneth Neil Cukier From Foreign Affairs, November/ December 2005

CFR The New Yorker’s George Packer and former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran consider “the way forward” in Iraq. October 24, 2005

Causes and Consequences of the Buildup in Global Liquidity: Part 2 Financial Markets CenterA 12-page assessment of the rising level of global debt and the dangers that it poses

H8 BBC Iran leader's comments condemned There has been widespread condemnation of a call by Iran's president for Israel to be "wiped off the map".

Analysts Warn of Effects of Iraq Civil War

Daily Star It's time for Russia to use its sway with Syria to bring about positive change

Don't let Mehlis' report reinforce Shiite isolationBy Michael Young

Syria's leaders will avoid mutual betrayal By Lee Smith

Right and wrong in U.S. foreign policy By Rami G. Khouri

Syria ill-equipped to combat sanctions

KR Kerry calls on Bush to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq
H9 Ha’aretz - The subconscious of anti-Semitism Since Christians are obliged to worship a Jew as a god, they take revenge on the rest of the Jews, whom they describe as "sons of Satan."

Murder Inc. in Syria The western world took these brutal Syrian actions in its stride, and Hafez Assad became a much admired, and even respected world leader.

Jerusalem Post Eye of the Storm: Needed - a new Iraqi timetable

Washington Institute Syria’s Response to the Mehlis Report The survival of the Syrian regime depends on opening its political system to share power and satisfying international demands and concerns. So far, it seems that Bashar al-Asad is choosing a more self-destructive path.

The Copts and Their Political Implications in Egypt
H10 Christian Science Monitor A new Sunni strategy After failing to defeat Iraq's charter, Sunni Arab parties are merging - with an anti-US agenda.

Impose 'smart' sanctions on Syria By George A. Lopez

French inch toward social reform A majority say France's safety nets are broken, but they're divided on a solution. Part 3 of three.

Their clout rising, blogs are courted by Washington's elite
Political blogs aren't just reacting to news anymore - they're making it.

Bernanke's bargain with inflation

BBC goes all out to reach Middle East The BBC is dropping 10 language services to focus on a new Arabic channel to take on Al Jazeera.

Strongmen to score big in final tallies of Afghanistan vote
The new parliament, dominated by men who have ruled by the gun, may sit as soon as early December.

US to relocate key Okinawa air base Japan and the US have hammered out an agreement to move a base protested by residents.



H11 IHT Post-quake giving unites Pakistan AHMED RASHID The public response to the earthquake in Kashmir is an expression of the coming together of the nation after a long fallow period.

U.S. and the EU: Extradition must go both ways CHRISTIAN AHLUND Until the U.S. demonstrates a more cooperative attitude, the EU should put the ratification process of a new extradition agreement on hold.

The colonel's critique The recent scalding criticism of the Bush administration by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson should be welcomed for its patriotic intent and its therapeutic value.

UPI Walker's World: Japan's strategic fears

BBC Judge rules on Guantanamo strike Lawyers for hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay must be told before their clients are force-fed, a judge rules.
ICRC concern at Guantanamo

H12 RFE/RL Most Sunni Arabs Set Their Sights On Elections
Iran: Analysts Give Economic Planning And Development Mixed Marks

Israel Says Iran A 'Clear and Present Danger'

International commentary on China: Secretary Rice In Central Asia: A ‘Diplomatic Blitz’

OpenDemocracy Kosovo: the end of the beginning

USIP USIPeace Briefing Afghanistan: Old Problems, New Parliament, New Expectations

H13 The Times Anatole Kaletsky Galileo and Copernicus Alan Greenspan will take pride of place when historians try to understand the transformation to the modern global economy

Isolate Syria's tryannyPolitical, diplomatic and economic pressure should be exerted with the declared aim of regime change

Al-Zarqawi's Europe cell jailed Four Islamic radicals accused of planning to bomb Jewish targets in Germany were jailed for up to eight years

Q&A: the CIA leak

Blair tries to mend fences with call for shared EU policies

WSJ Support Wanes for Bush Policies, Poll Shows U.S. support is waning for Bush's policies on some key issues, a new Harris poll indicates. About 43% approve of his position on tax cuts, compared with 52% in a previous poll. Support for Mr. Bush's energy policies fell to 30%, from 37%.


Der Spiegel PANDEMIC PREPARATIONS Hatching Bird Flu Vaccine from an Egg So far, bird flu remains just that -- a disease affecting only our feathered friends. But it could jump to humans and vaccine laboratories want to be ready. But no matter what they do, half a year would likely be necessary to develop a vaccine. Or could it go even faster?
H14 Financial Times Talk persists of central banks shifting reserves from dollar Talk of central banks diversifying their $4,000bn foreign exchange reserves away from the dollar is a constant refrain.

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Britain should play Thomas More at the summit A Union with free trade within and protectionism without was a viable recipe while the EU could dictate the terms of trade. But that is no longer sustainable, writes Stephen Wall, former Downing Street adviser on Europe to Tony Blair

Germany could raise retirement age to 67Germany's government-in-waiting is considering a proposal to increase the statutory retirement age to 67 from 65, in a move that could send a reform signal across Europe.

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: What Germany and France must rediscover They showed other countries a model for economic success. They need quickly to reform and modernise their model, not repudiate it, writes Mario Monti, a former European commissioner.

Syria sanctions threat opposed by Russia and Arab League

Iranian leader sparks alarm by saying Israel 'must be wiped off the map'

UN report finds Syrian weapons flow to Lebanon

COMMENT: Why Asian studies are crucial to Britain's future By Peter Cave

Controversy grows over fate of Iraq detainees The fate of thousands of prisoners held without trial by US and British forces in Iraq is in legal limbo as controversy...

Schröder set to rock boat at his last summit Schr?der will on Wednesday use his final European Union summit as German chancellor to oppose a proposal backed...

Republicans fear loss of seats as mid-term troubles mount

Suicide bomber kills four in Israeli town


H15 Los Angeles Times Anticipation Builds Over CIA Leak Investigation Prosecutor investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity meets with grand jury as panel's expiration nears.
White House Plans to Deflect

BBC US cancels 'mini-nukes' programme The US drops controversial plans to develop a nuclear "bunker-buster" warhead, a Republican senator says.

Financial Times Leader A CAP and bull story that fools no one While European Union leaders are congratulating themselves on their commitment to economic reform at the Hampton Court summit today, they might consider coming clean...

Shaking off the fluBusiness leaders, like everyone else, are being bombarded with news about the risk of a human bird flu pandemic. Executives should consider now what, if anything, they...

Over the Great WallAfter years of pushing, the barbarians are well and truly inside the gate. The $371m (£209m) acquisition by Carlyle Group, the US private equity firm, of a...

COMMENT: America needs a tax system that reflects its values America’s tax system is wrong-headed and backward, discouraging savings and job creation, while encouraging energy consumption, waste and pollution, writes Ted Halstead, founder and president of the New America Foundation.

H16 White House Nervous About 'Bulldog'
America in 2020 By Hillary Rodham Clinton

KR Federal spending splits GOP, threatens its base

Unexpected Lessons From Greenspan's Fed - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

It's Time to Rein in Special Prosecutors - Viet Dinh and Neal Katyal, Wall St. Journal
H17 Daily Telegraph What we can learn from Norwegians Oslo's place in Efta but out of the EU has ensured wealth and health, says Daniel Hannan. Norwegians are the richest people in Europe, and the healthiest and happiest race in the world.

Tories: Blair's blown itTony Blair has invited the European Union to extend its reach into a sweeping range of new - and sensitive - policy areas, from company taxation to university reforms, a "common energy policy" for Europe and the management of immigration.
H18 Independent Blair: Europe must reform to cope with globalisation Tony Blair outlined a range of targets for closer European co-operation yesterday and laid down a fresh challenge to the European Union to reform to deal with globalisation

Leading article: So much for putting Britain at the heart of Europe

Adrian Hamilton: Why Blair no longer seeks a legacy in Europe

Bush at bay Senior White House officials face indictment over CIA leak. Protests across US as military death toll in Iraq passes 2,000. Republicans may force retreat over Supreme Court nomination Curse of the second term leaves US presidents as lame ducks

Hamish McRae: Bernanke's appointment is a good one, but he will certainly face a few shocks
H19 CRS Terrorist Capabilities for Cyberattack: Overview and Policy Issues
LA REPUBBLICA TRANSLATIONS....A blog about the Middle East called Nur al-Cubicle has posted complete translations of the La Repubblica series on the forged Niger documents. Here they are: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Alexander Yakovlev and theRoots of the Soviet Reforms National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 168

H20 Slate First, Fire All the Lawyers: It's time to put a manager in charge of the Department of Homeland Security.
Fred Kaplan

CFR Bernard Trainor tells CFR’s Michael Moran in this cfr.org brief the military is reaping a harvest of public doubt now after years of claiming that high-tech weaponry would give America the ability “to fight clean wars.”

H21 Vanity Fair MEANWHILE, IN AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION … Most second-term presidents have a V.P. jockeying for a shot at the Oval Office. Not Bush. Aside from making one steely-jawed hurricane-relief appearance, Dick Cheney was invisible for 11 days. Michael Wolff may have figured out why. Illustration by Philip Burke. Read the article.  ¶ 11:55