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H1 International Security Waiting for Balancing: Why the World Is Not Pushing Back Keir A. Lieber and Gerard Alexander
Washington Post
Assad's Inner Circle Holds Power, Peril Analysts say if the group is linked to the killing of Hariri, the scandal could bring down his government. By Anthony Shadid and Robin Wright
Scowcroft's 'Realism' - Charles Krauthammer

3 Iraqi Shiite Groups Form Election Alliance: Sadr's Supporters Join Parties in Power

Al Hayat
Syrian Diplomacy and France Randa Takieddine - What did happen between 2001 and 2005 between Syria and France so that their relationship reached this level of deterioration?

Los Angeles Times
Hating the regime, fearing Uncle Sam
Although Syrians are disgusted with their disgraced government, they don't want to be another Iraq.

The Economist On the cover The withdrawal of Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court is a further blow to an already storm-damaged George Bush: leader

India and China
What's to stop India and China?


Final report into the UN's Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme
Download Volcker report (16MB)

IHT
Assad's dilemma MICHAEL YOUNG The Mehlis report threatens to create a perfect storm of adversity for the regime of President Bashar Assad of Syria.

America should test who's in charge in Damascus ANDREW TABLER Washington must not miss an opportunity to determine who is worth dealing with in Damascus.

AsiaTimes
Where chaos is kingGiven the chaos and violence currently afflicting much of Iraq, particularly its Sunni regions, it is hard to imagine that the Bush administration intended such an outcome to its invasion and occupation. Yet this very chaos is crucial to the US achieving its primary goals in the country and the region. - Mark LeVine

OpenDemocracy
Failing democracy Anatol Lieven crashes into our continuing debate on democracy: the barriers to democratic progress in today's world are far deeper than Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton allow, Roger Scruton’s depiction of "the west and the rest" is equally flawed

Dan Drezner
Anoint no economic superpower before its time
Salon.com All the vice president's men The ideologues in Cheney's inner circle drummed up a war. Now their zealotry is blowing up in their faces. By Juan Cole

H2 FT Move to ease investor fears on capital gains tax Turkey sought to reassure stock market investors yesterday that its plan to introduce a 15 per cent tax on securities...

Slate
Today's Papers / Blogometer realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec - antiwar.com / Wikipedia / technorati

Personnel Announcement Whitehouse.gov (press release), ... to nominate Ross Wilson, of Maryland, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Turkey.

AsiaTimes
Where chaos is kingGiven the chaos and violence currently afflicting much of Iraq, particularly its Sunni regions, it is hard to imagine that the Bush administration intended such an outcome to its invasion and occupation. Yet this very chaos is crucial to the US achieving its primary goals in the country and the region. - Mark LeVine
New York Times
Cheney Aide Appears Likely to Be Indicted; Rove Under Scrutiny Lawyers in the C.I.A. leak case expect I. Lewis Libby Jr. to be charged with making false statements to the grand jury.
A Long, Rocky Road With 39 Months to Go It seems safe to say that President George W. Bush has never had a worse political week than this one - and it is not over yet.
Daily Star
Russia may be Europe's 'sick man,' but it does still matterBy Richard N. Haass

CFR In an interview with CFR’s Bernard Gwertzman, Council Fellow
Walter Russell Mead gives the Bush administration foreign policy improving “grades” for the first year of the second term. Interview

Iraq expert Noah Feldman, in an interview with CFR's Bernard Gwertzman, says this is "
definitely a good thing," but the question is whether the Sunnis can bring about a diminution of the insurgent violence.

Guardian
Slogans fail to cover up a lack of experience Simon Tisdall: Even if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remark on Israel was more than mere rhetoric, his ability to pursue a confrontational policy is severely circumscribed.

EurasiaNet
Azerbaijan: Inked Fingers and Foreign NGOs for Free and Fair Elections

EDM
AZERBAIJAN'S ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN: FREER, FAIRER, AWAITING FAIR JUDGMENT

Azerbaijan intrigue Washington Times, By Ariel Cohen.
RFE/RL
EU Doubts Baku's Commitment To Democracy

The Nation
How Did We Get Here? How Do We Get Out? Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh discuss the CIA's role in enabling the hidden foreign policy agenda that fueled an illegal war.
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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Debate on Kurdistan

Kurdish Leader & New Iraqi Constitution VOA 27 Oct 2005 -- Iraq's Kurdish region leader says his people are committed to the constitution

Turkey warns Bush not to call Barzani "President"

Erbil International Airport (EIA) - Direct Flights to Kurdistan Region

Many Kurds injured in new Mahabad riot

Kurdish Jihadist website says responsible for Iraqi Kurdish city blasts - paper BBC Monitoring Service

Iraqi army wants to occupy border post in Kurdish region - paper

Kurdish writer says new Iraqi state continues Arabization of Kirkuk

Demonstration in Mahabad against execution of a Kurdish detainee Thousands of Kurdish people participated in a demonstration to condemn the death sentence of a Kurdish detainee.

Iran launched a Satellite Assisted by Russia, Iran launched its first satellite into space from Plesetsk in northern Russia on Thursday.

"NO" Would Have Been a Better Option Kamal H. Artin - Although a "Yes" vote to Iraqi constitution is a temporary bandage to cover a deep wound, a "No" vote would have brought Kurdish dream closer to its fulfillment.

International Security Summer 2005 Vol. 30, No. 1 BALANCING ACTS
Soft Balancing against the United States Robert A. Pape
Soft Balancing in the Age of U.S. Primacy T.V. Paul
Hard Times for Soft BalancingStephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth

FT
COMMENT: How the world looks as a single economy By Samuel Brittan The most striking conclusion of orthodox trade theory was that low wage and high wage countries could profitably trade without one side undermining the other. Of course, the theory was never quite that simple.

H4 New York Times Cheney Aide Appears Likely to Be Indicted; Rove Under Scrutiny Lawyers in the C.I.A. leak case expect I. Lewis Libby Jr. to be charged with making false statements to the grand jury.
A Long, Rocky Road With 39 Months to Go It seems safe to say that President George W. Bush has never had a worse political week than this one - and it is not over yet.
F.B.I. Investigating Forged Uranium Reports
Ruling Iraqi Shiites Agree to a Joint Election List
Report on Oil-for-Food Scheme Gives Details of Bribes to Iraq
Facing Threats, Syria Weighs Steps to Rally the Home Front
Israel Steps Up Reprisals in West Bank and Gaza, Killing Seven
Western Leaders Condemn the Iranian President's Threat to Israel
Friedman
Green Dreams in Shangri-La China needs to start assuming an environmental leadership role commensurate with its impact on the world.

Krugman
Bernanke and the Bubble
The naming of Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve was a sign of President Bush's weakness, and it brought a collective sigh of relief.

Editorial
Harriet Miers Exits Stage Right A Supreme Court nominee does not have to be a judge or a constitutional scholar, but should be capable of filling out the Senate's questionnaire without a do-over.

Steady Erosion in Support Undercut Nomination

Editorial
Building on Afghanistan's Elections
Afghanistan is demonstrating that even one of the world's poorest and least secure countries can conduct credible elections.

Give Them Shelter By ALEXANDER SAUNDERS
The United States should use a product of its manufacturing ingenuity to help the millions left homeless by the earthquake in Pakistan.

H
5 Washington Post Assad's Inner Circle Holds Power, Peril Analysts say if the group is linked to the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, the scandal could bring down his government. By Anthony Shadid and Robin Wright
Scowcroft's 'Realism' - Charles Krauthammer

3 Iraqi Shiite Groups Form Election Alliance: Sadr's Supporters Join Parties in Power

Editorial
A President's Hate Speech The West should reject Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his murderous threats, and instead support most young Iranians who would like to live in a prosperous and democratic society.

Bush Facing New Problems
President risks more confrontation with Democrats and further estrangement from the political center from Miers fallout.

Rove, Libby Prepare for Possible Indictments

Hussein Received Oil-For-Food Kickbacks
Oil-for-Food Program Report Alleges $1.8 Billion in Payments

Nomination Plagued by Missteps From the Start Aides ignored warnings by some of the administration's closest conservative allies that Miers would prove difficult to confirm.

World Leaders Condemn Iranian's Call to Wipe Israel 'Off the Map'

Editorial
The Next Nominee The President should nominate somone who commands respect across the political spectrum, not mollify his base with someone more "reliable" than Harriet Miers.

From the Archive
Miers: The Only Exit Strategy - By Charles Krauthammer October 21

A Departure's Lasting Damage By E. J. Dionne Jr., The damage President Bush and the conservative movement have inflicted on their un-principled drive to pack the Supreme Court will not be undone by Harriet Miers's decision to withdraw.

Miers: A Signal Pullback By David Ignatius, This White House needs to understand that Bush's approval rating hasn't plummeted to around 40 percent because the country fears he isn't conservative enough.

Throw Another Plot on to Boil By Michael Kinsley, ,Confused about the Plame investigation? Who isn't?

FBI Dealt Setback on Cellular Surveillance The FBI may not track the locations of cell phone users without showing evidence that a crime occurred or is in progress, two federal judges ruled, saying that to do so would violate long-established privacy protections.

Conservatives and the White House
The Rift's Repercussions Could Last Rest of Term

Oil Industry Seeks to Cast Huge Profits as Minor
H6 Guardian 23 dead as Shia and Sunni militia clash At least 23 people died when supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with Sunni militants near Baghdad

Slogans fail to cover up a lack of experience Simon Tisdall: Even if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remark on Israel was more than mere rhetoric, his ability to pursue a confrontational policy is severely circumscribed.

White House crisis grows · Supreme court nominee withdraws· Decision in CIA leak case expected Moral right turns guns on Bush
Leader: The difference a year makes The decision of Harriet Miers to withdraw her name from consideration for the US supreme court is an indication of how weakened and beleaguered the Bush administration has become.

Blair rebukes Iran for Israel threatBlair warns of direct action if threats to wipe out Israel are repeated.
Israel targets Islamic Jihad · Sharon announces 'broad and continuous offensive' · Demand that Abbas confront armed groups

France and Germany scupper Blair's budget deal · Prime minister upbeat despite rebate demand· Merkel will follow tough line, says chancellor
£4bn plan to fund retraining of workers runs into trouble
Summit sketch: Michael White

It's Schröder v Tudor The outgoing German chancellor could blast Tony Blair's Hampton Court summit out of the water, writes Nicholas Watt.

Poland's disenchanted killed off 'New Europe' Jonathan Steele: Poverty and regional inequality helped win votes for a conservative, nationalist and Catholic president.
H7 Steven Clemons: Realists lambaste neo-cons Australian

New Republic
Blown Fuse by Spencer Ackerman Why Sunni optimism won't save (or unite) Iraq.

Ben Bernanke is no Alan Greenspan. Thank God by the Editors

Open Democracy
George W Bush: home alone The Plamegate scandal exposes a degradation of American politics under George W Bush which shocks even senior Republicans, says Sidney Blumenthal

The Long Shadow of Alan Greenspan - Jeff Taylor, Reason
Volcker and Greenspan's Biggest Legacy - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Asia Times
In Iraq for the long haul When the Bush administration insists that it cannot spell out an exit strategy for Iraq and that it plans to stay put, it is being realistic. With Iraq continuing to divide US Republicans, the safe position is to refuse to be tied down to specifics. - Ehsan Ahrari

TCS
Will the Internet become the UNTERNET?

Dan Yergin on Energy Prices and Policies James Glassman

H8 Al Hayat Syrian Diplomacy and France Randa Takieddine - What did happen between 2001 and 2005 between Syria and France so that their relationship reached this level of deterioration?

Sacrificing the Baath to Rescue Syria

BBC
Diplomatic furore Iran's hostile remarks on Israel fuel Western nuclear fears

Iraqi parties form election blocs Iraq's political parties finalise coalitions for December's election, ahead of a registration deadline.

AsiaTimes
Where chaos is kingGiven the chaos and violence currently afflicting much of Iraq, particularly its Sunni regions, it is hard to imagine that the Bush administration intended such an outcome to its invasion and occupation. Yet this very chaos is crucial to the US achieving its primary goals in the country and the region. - Mark LeVine

Iran on course for a showdown Ahmadinejad's call for the obliteration of Israel will harden international attitudes against the Islamic republic at a time it is about to be hauled before the UN Security Council over its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad, though, has put himself on another path of confrontation: with the very people who put him in power. - Safa Haeri

Kerry: Path Forward in Iraq
H9 Ha’aretz - Analysis: Ariel Sharon's second disengagement - from the PA Insisting that there is no diplomatic partner, Sharon has commenced a 'root canal against Islamic Jihad.

Israel fumes over Egypt's talks with Hamas, Islamic Jihad

Daily Star
From Damascus, an appeal for salvation By Yassin Al-Haj Saleh

Yedioth Ahronoth
Jewish heart in China
H10 Christian Science Monitor Confused about the CIA leak? Start here. The Monitor's White House correspondent answers questions about the case.

UN team names firms in oil-for-food scandal Report: Nearly half of the 4,500 companies that participated in the program paid Hussein bribes.

Iran's leader eyes key constituency: youth President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told students this week that Israel should be annihilated.

Islamic Jihad steps out from Hamas shadow
The latest attack in Israel underscores the militia's commitment to a radical path.

Miers out. Plan B?
Now President Bush must find a Supreme Court nominee who can satisfy his base yet clear the Senate.

US must provide Gitmo hunger strikers' medical records
A federal judge also ruled that detainee lawyers must be told when their clients are being force-fed.

For postquake Pakistanis, a greater need
H11 IHT Assad's dilemma MICHAEL YOUNG The Mehlis report threatens to create a perfect storm of adversity for the regime of President Bashar Assad of Syria.

America should test who's in charge in Damascus ANDREW TABLER Washington must not miss an opportunity to determine who is worth dealing with in Damascus.

Degrading our soldiers and ourselves ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Unless Americans, rise up and insist on the constraints of law, America will no longer be so beautiful.

The Economist Reform in India
Democracy's drawbacks

BBC
Damp squib Hampton Court's historic setting fails to inspire EU leaders

Blair: EU budget deal difficult
The European Union faces a "tall order" in setting its budget, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.

Social discord EU states' contrasting traditions block social policy agreement
Climate study shows Europe risks Mediterranean and mountain areas of Europe will be hardest hit by climate change this century, a study says.

H12 RFE/RL
U.S. Welcomes Azerbaijan Election Measures

EDM
CONTROVERSIAL ARRESTS SHED LIGHT ON ARMENIA'S MURKY SECURITY SERVICE

JCC, "PEACEKEEPING" FORMATS IN SOUTH OSSETIA SHOWN TO BE UNTENABLE

Der Spiegel THE CAUCASUS BATTLEFIELD
A Breeding Ground of Radicalism in Southern Russia The town of Nalchik in the Caucasus region has long been a vacation resort. Since the middle of October, however, it has hosted a war. But it's not alone in the region. The town is just the latest addition to a long list of hot spots in the region including Grozny, Beslan and Dagestan. It has become a breeding ground of terror. A Four Part Series by Walter Mayr more...

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Part Two: Islamist Theocracy in the Shadow of Mt. Elbrus
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Part Three: A Normal Day of Death in Grozny

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Part Four: Spinning out of Control in Dagestan

The Terrorist Threat and the Policy Response in PakistanStockholm International Peace Research InstituteA 56-page policy paper dealing with the historical, political and strategic background to Pakistan's experiences with religiously motivated terrorism
H13 The Times
The Fed gets the right man Few economists have articulated the centrality of the central bank as well as Ben Bernanke By Gerard Baker

Blair hints at military action after Iran's 'disgraceful' taunt Mahmoud Ahmadineja's words triggered international condemnation, with Israel demanding Iran ’s expulsion from the United Nations

Industrial giants accused of paying £1bn bribes Around 2,200 companies paid a total of £1.1 billion in illicit payments to Saddam Hussein’s regime

WSJ
Global Europe The Continent needs a wholly new economic model -- and mindset. By GORDON BROWN

China Is No Superpower Many in Europe and even some within the U.S. exaggerate China 's rise as a stick to beat the Bush administration. By ROSS TERRILL

Fearful of Democracy Democracy's few remaining opponents are now anxious to cloak themselves in its colors.

America is in Trouble--and Our Elites Are Merely Resigned - Peggy Noonan, WSJ

Root of Leak Probe Is Prewar Dispute The CIA-leak investigation has roots in a White House rift with the Central Intelligence Agency over whether administration officials politicized information before the Iraq war.

H14 Financial Times
Russia's Islamic rebirth adds tension

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Fiscal stability should be the Fed's new mantra By Brad Delong Looking ahead, I cannot avoid concluding that Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan’s designated successor, and Mr Bernanke’s successor thereafter, are being dealt bad cards

COMMENT: The White House crisis is just beginning By Ian Bremmer Some pundits have compared the Bush administration’s current troubles to those that afflicted the two most recent second-term presidents, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. But that may be understating the case.

LEADER: Miers pulls out but Bush's problems stay

Blair leads attack on anti-Israel remarks

Volcker accuses European groups of kickbacks DaimlerChrysler, Siemens and Volvo were among a number of companies that paid kickbacks for contracts with Saddam Hussein

Baghdad to start lifting petrol subsidies

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: A better way of stockpiling emergency medicines It is time to reconsider the entire global approach to managing emergency stockpiles and to reconcile better the need for both research and development incentives and the protection of public health, writes James Love of the ­Consumer Project on Technology.

COMMENT: How the world looks as a single economy By Samuel Brittan The most striking conclusion of orthodox trade theory was that low wage and high wage countries could profitably trade without one side undermining the other. Of course, the theory was never quite that simple.


H15 Los Angeles Times
Hating the regime, fearing Uncle Sam
Although Syrians are disgusted with their disgraced government, they don't want to be another Iraq.

CIA Leak Probe Reaches Finish Line Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald expected to announce Friday the results of his 22-month investigation.

KnightRidder
Many climb on the China bandwagon From Jakarta to Vancouver and on to New Delhi and Chicago, surging interest in studying the Chinese language is just one gauge of the greater magnetic pull that China exerts after two decades of galloping economic growth.

American Conservative
Money for Nothing By Philip Giraldi Between crooked contractors and corrupt politicians, billions of dollars earmarked for Iraqi reconstruction have disappeared.

Deconstructing Nation Building By James L. Payne The historical record shows that attempts to remake countries by military force most often fail.

The Struggle for EuropeBy Patrick J. BuchananThe West’s Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? by Tony Blankley

FT
OECD warns on deteriorating US deficitsThe OECD forecast that the US economy would expand at a 3.25 per cent rate over the next 18 months but it warned of the risk posed by the continued deterioration of the US current account deficit.

US presses China to revalue currency John Snow, US Treasury secretary, has told China's leaders that the US wants to see another revaluation of the renminbi...

Shell's performance beats expectations Royal Dutch Shell made the largest quarterly profit in its 98-year history this summer

Israel raids Gaza and West Bank in response to suicide bombing
H16 KR
Withdrawal gives Bush chances to mend fences with his base

Blog: Did Tenet resign due to Plame probe?




New Republic
Cultivated Rice by Michelle CottleThe movement to nominate Condi for president.
H
17 Daily Telegraph Iran again challenges the Security CouncilThe call by Iran to destroy Israel is, sadly, not new. In 2001, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, a former president, suggested that the Islamic world annihilate the Jewish state with nuclear weapons. And the elimination of Israel has been a constant theme of rallies organised by the regime.
H18 Independent
Denis MacShane: There is light at the end of European tunnel

The hottest October 27 ever. A reason to be cheerful? Hardly

Global warming threatens drought for Mediterranean
Galloway given 18m barrels of oil from Saddam
Sharon calls on UN to expel 'dangerous' Iran
H19 Stephen Friedman Named to Chair President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

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
H20 Slate
The Novak Report: When the Plame indictments come down, the columnist will have a lot to explain.
Jack Shafer

H21
Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans...

Probalilistic Assessment of "Dangerous" Climate Change and Emissions Pathways Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
 
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Recommendations for Strengthening U.S.-Turkish Relations February 26, 2007
ABD'nin Irak'taki Seçenekleri Ocak 2007
'Topal Ördek'le İki Yıl Daha: 2006 Kongre Seçimleri Aralık 2006
U.S.: Empire, Gulliver or the “First Among Unequals” (ppt) - ASAM 2023 Conference - October 2006
Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerinde “İkinci Bahar” mı, “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Stratejik Analiz - Haziran 2006 -
Irak’ta Direnişin ve İşgalin Gölgesinde Demokrasi Deneyi Avrasya Dosyası - İslam ve Demokrasi Özel Sayısı
Gurur ve Önyargı: ABD İran Gerginliği ve Türkiye Stratejik Analiz Nisan 2006 - (pdf)
Arzın Merkezine Seyahat: ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi - Journey to the Center of the World: U.S. National Security Council Avrasya Dosyası 2005
Dört Tarz-ı Siyaset: Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri ve Başbakan Erdoğan’ın Washington Ziyareti Temmuz 2005
11 Eylül’den Sonra Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri: Eski Dostlar mı Eskimeyen Dostlar mı? Avrasya Dosyası - 2005
“Dört Yıl Daha”: Yeni Bush Yönetimi ve Dünya Aralık 2004
2004’ten 2005’e Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Aralık 2004
Türkiye, Iraklı Kürtler ve Statükonun Meşruiyeti Nisan 2004 - eksik
Askerî Alanda Devrim: Askerî Bir Senfoni Ocak 2004
Çirkin Amerikalı’ ile ‘Güven Bunalımı’: ‘Süleymaniye Krizi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Temmuz 2003 - ( pdf )
The Middle East: A Land of Opportunity and Peril for Turkey - May 2003
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Notlar: Ataerkil Yapıdan Tüccar Mantığına mı? Mayıs 2003
Türkiye, ABD ve Irak Harekâtı: Hayır Diyebilen Türkiye? - Şubat 2003
Değişim, ‘Sense of Proportion’ ve Tarihin Yararları ile Sınırları Üzerine Nisan 2003
ABD Güvenlik Politikalarında Güç Kullanımı ve Caydırıcılık Ağustos 2002
“Yalnız Kovboy” ya da “Eşit Olmayanlar Arasında Birinci”: ABD Dış Politikasında Tektaraflılık-Çoktaraflılık Tartışmaları Mart 2002
İyi, Kötü ve Çirkin: ABD'nin Orta Doğu Politikaları Ocak 2002
Unilateralism corrupts, absolute unilateralism corrupts absolutely Turkish News, May 21, 2002
ABD ve Afganistan: Çıkış Var mı? Kasım 2001
Realism and Change
Crime and Punishment - Deterrence and its Failure in Theory and Practice 2001
“Tüketebileceğimizden Daha Fazla Değişim” ya da Eskimeyen Dünya Düzeni Ekim 2001
“ABD-AB İlişkilerinde Metal Yorgunluğu” Haziran 2001
It never rains circa. 1991.
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