Foreign Press Review - January 31 2005 0131-2006f
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H1 New York Times China and Russia Support Sending Iran Case to U.N. The U.S. and Europe won support for referring Iran to the Security Council, but the Council will not act for at least a month.

BBC Time to talk Top thinkers consider Europe's future as Austria takes charge
IHT The gap between U.S. rhetoric and reality By ANATOL LIEVEN The U.S. cannot afford to use the rhetoric of spreading democracy as an excuse for avoiding dealing with pressing national grievances and wishes.

American and Iranian interests meet in Iraq CHARLES KUPCHAN AND RAY TAKEYH Paradoxically, it is in Iraq, where U.S. and Iranian interests coincide, that the two countries could work together to advance regional stability.

Will Israel Blast the Iranian Bomb?The American Enterprise

Asia Times No true Scotsman starts a war Contrary to American dogma, history shows that democracies are more likely to start wars than dictatorships.

Der Spiegel IRAN AND THE BALANCE OF POWER 'Of Course We Have the Right to the Bomb'
H2 NYT Editorial The Way Forward for Turkey Turkey needs to change the repressive law under which author Orhan Pamuk was arrested and drop similar cases against dozens of other lesser-known Turks.

Talabani: Autonomy for Turkmens in Kurdistan The New Anatolian Kurds working on plan to give Turkmens autonomy in areas they're a majority in new constitution they're drafting for Kurdistan Region of Iraq


SlateToday's Papers - antiwar.com / Wikipedia / technorati

Half of Iraqis Support Attacks on GIs

EurasiaNet Gas Prices Prompt Armenia to Debate Alliance with Russia


RFE/RL Russia - Does Gazprom Have A Master Pipeline Plan? Russia's state-controlled monopoly Gazprom is the world's largest gas company, and the 10th-largest company in the world after its shares rose over 13 percent on the London market in mid-January. But its ambitions don't necessarily end there.


Defense Trade Data U.S. Government Accountability Office A 10-page review of defence sales/purchases of defence articles and services between the U.S. and other countries
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

Morgan Stanley Turkey: The Wal-Mart Effect Without Wal-Mart

Washington Times New policies, old attitudes (Tulin Daloglu)

US Plan for the "Great Middle East" THE KURDISH PIPELINE Gilles Munier

A new assessment of the Kurdish issueTurkish Daily News

Colonel: Key northern town on right track

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Guardian 'Jail made me a film director' How a notorious Istanbul prison forged the career of one of Europe's finest movie-makers

NBER, Daron Acemoglu, Jan 30, 2006Modeling Inefficient Institutions

Central Bank of Turkey, Ozge Akinci, Olcay Yucel Culha, Umit Ozlale and Gulbin Sahinbeyoglu, February, 2005 The Effectiveness of Foreign Exchange Interventions for the Turkish Economy : A Post-Crisis Period Analysis

H4 New York Times China and Russia Support Sending Iran Case to U.N. The U.S. and Europe won support for referring Iran to the Security Council, but the Council will not act for at least a month.

Editorial Wanted: A Wary Audience Tonight is President Bush's night to speak. But it's the job of all of us to be critical listeners
Qaeda Deputy Taunts Bush for 'Failure' in Airstrike
Iraqi Official Says Foreign Forces Could Fall Below 100,000 This Year
Both Fatah and Hamas Leaders Urge West to Continue Aid to Palestinians
The State of the Union Is Unreal By TED WIDMER
In preparation for tonight's State of the Union speech, match the quote with the reality-challenged president who uttered it.


H5 Washington Post U.N. to Hear Iran Nuclear Case China, Russia sign statement to transfer dossier to Security Council for possible sanctions.
• Poll: Most Americans Back Sanctions on Iran

Editorial A Sweet and Sour Economy
IN HIS STATE of the Union speech tonight, President Bush will be tempted to take credit for the strength of the economy. The recovery that began four years ago has been robust, with gross domestic product growing 4.2 percent in 2004 and 3.5 percent in 2005 despite a slowdown in the last quarter....

Editorial Cold War Theatrics A GRAINY VIDEO purporting to show the activities of British spies; ominous talk of foreigners undermining the state; protests from the Moscow Helsinki Group -- can this really be Russia in 2006?

What Hamas Is Seeking By Mousa Abu Marzook

U.S., Allies Set Terms for Palestinian Aid

Cash Dwindles for Rebuilding Iraq: With Most Projects Unfinished, U.S. Official Seeks Funds

The State Of Our Cynicism By George F. Will The nation needs a measured meditation on overreaching, from the Middle East to Medicare.

NSA Expands, Centralizes Domestic Spying

Google and My Red Flag - Sebastian Mallaby

Senate Set for Final Vote on Court Nominee
H6 Guardian We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aidKhalid Mish'al: Palestinians voted for Hamas because of our refusal to give up their rights. But we are ready to make a just peace.

Bush speech aims to salvage faltering legacy State of the Union address will focus on home front · I am upbeat about future, says embattled president

Danish paper sorry for Muhammad cartoons

Russia restores gas supplies to Georgia· Government distributes kerosene and firewood · Politicians accuse Moscow of targeting energy system

Daddy's source The Ukrainian gas crisis threw light upon Russia's fuelling of Alexander Lukashenko's despotic Belarussian regime
H7 Asia Times No true Scotsman starts a war Contrary to American dogma, history shows that democracies are more likely to start wars than dictatorships.

A high-risk game of nuclear chickenThe danger of a strategy of preemptive wars is that when a country such as Iran calls the US bluff and has the potential for a formidable response, the US is left with little option but to launch the unthinkable, a nuclear strike. Saner voices within the US political establishment can still prevail, though. - F William EngdahlJapan's Iran dilemmaJapan's imports of self-developed oil will increase by 60% once its investment in an Iranian oilfield comes on stream. With so much at stake, Tokyo is doing all it can to keep the project on track, even as it sides with the moves to take Tehran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program.

PBS Iraq Funds May Have Been Misspent A U.S. government report issued Monday finds shortcomings in the rebuilding of roads, hospitals, water and sewage systems, and power plants in war-torn Iraq.

Morgan Stanley Global: The Handover Fallacy
United States: Greenspan's Legacies; Bernanke's Challenges

Walker's World: Greenspan hard act to follow
H8 BBC Iran nuclear file 'will go to UN' The UN's top powers agree to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions over its nuclear programme.

Sounding off Iran's bloggers do battle with authorities over the nuclear crisis

KR Al Qaida deputy re-emerges in new video, warns of new attacks

Russia, China join effort to bring Iran before U.N. Security Council

Nearly half of Iraqis support attacks on U.S. troops, poll finds

India Says It Will Abstain in Iran Nuclear Vote

Boston Globe Declining options on Iran (By H.D.S. Greenway)

UPI Clark calls for dialogue on Iran

Arab reformers often run against U.S.
Daily Star A weak Palestinian government is not in anyone's interest

Was Hamas' crushing victory a curse in disguise? By Mkhaimar Abusada

In Egypt, preferring Islamists to liberals By Julie Sawyer

Paradoxes of the 'great man' syndrome By Dominique Moisi

The Saudi ship is quietly, firmly shifting course By Afshin Molavi
H9 Ha’aretz – Hamas rejects Quartet's calls to disarm and recognize Israel

Yoel Marcus We don't need any favors Israel doesn't need permission to exist, certainly not from the primitive, fundamentalist societies that live around it. So who is it, exactly, who thinks they can destroy us?

Hamas's victory - good for all What can be a more spectacular advertisement for the idea that democracy makes politicians out of terrorists than the electoral victory of Hamas in last week's Palestinian election?

Debka Europe on Slippery Slope to Recognizing Hamas-ruled Palestinian Government

Robert Satloff Hamas’s Rise and Israel’s Choice

Jerusalem Post Iran and Hamas can be checked

Our world: The trial of American Jewry

Hamas' Options Alon Ben-Meir

PINR "Hamas and the P.N.A. Face Difficult Times Ahead" Full text of report

Washington Times Israel's security challenges (Joel Mowbray)

Who's who in Hamas?

Boston Globe Questions for Hamas (By Shai Feldman)

Take Hamas At Their Word - Richard Cohen, New York Daily News
H10 Christian Science Monitor Is there a bigger rolefor NATO in Afghanistan? 60-plus nations are discussing support for the country as it fights poverty, opium.

President Bush scaling down his agenda Tuesday's national address is an occasion to woo back voters and unveil low-risk initiatives.

After victory, Hamas faces money crunch
The US and EU threatened to cut aid if Palestinian militants stick to their policies of violence against Israel.

The Alan Greenspan era:the rise of the central banker
His legacy after nearly two decades goes well beyond his skill in statistics.

Roadside bombs: new push against threat The Pentagon has stepped up its efforts to curb IEDs, which cause more than half of US combat deaths.

Hope for a Mideast resolution could grow with Hamas leadership By Helena Cobban

Foreign Policy Think Again: Islamist Terrorism
H11 IHT The gap between U.S. rhetoric and reality By ANATOL LIEVEN The U.S. cannot afford to use the rhetoric of spreading democracy as an excuse for avoiding dealing with pressing national grievances and wishes.

American and Iranian interests meet in Iraq CHARLES KUPCHAN AND RAY TAKEYH Paradoxically, it is in Iraq, where U.S. and Iranian interests coincide, that the two countries could work together to advance regional stability.

Politicus: On Iran, Chirac steps in as Bush fears to tread

Who'll run Palestinian security?

An aircraft carrier for China?

Dead or alive? EU leaders taking constitution's pulse

BBC German mettle The man charged with completing Bosnia's post-war transition
Time to talk Top thinkers consider Europe's future as Austria takes charge
Language lessons Is a Berlin school right to force its students to speak only German?
H12 RFE/RL Russia - Does Gazprom Have A Master Pipeline Plan? Russia's state-controlled monopoly Gazprom is the world's largest gas company, and the 10th-largest company in the world after its shares rose over 13 percent on the London market in mid-January. But its ambitions don't necessarily end there.

EurasiaNet Gas Prices Prompt Armenia to Debate Alliance with Russia BY HAROUTIUN KHACHATRIAN Demands from energy giant GazProm for a gas price hike have prompted an unprecedented debate in Armenia about the value of the country’s strategic partnership with Russia.

Azerbaijani Hunger Strikers: Opposition of the Future?

MI-6 versus KGB-FSB: The Battle in Moscow

EDM MOSCOW TO INCREASE NUCLEAR TIES WITH UZBEKISTAN
- RUSSIAN ECONOMIC BOOM GOES UNNOTICED IN DAVOS
- MOSCOW, KYIV DISRUPTING NEGOTIATIONS ON TRANSNISTRIA
H13 The Times Invade Iran? There's another way, stupid Martin Samuel The consequences of war with Iran are so far-reaching that even to place it on the agenda is to have exceeded the bounds of logical thought

Denmark faces international boycott over Muslim cartoons

EU hands Hamas lifeline but White House acts to cut aid

Q&A: power of the pursestrings

WSJ 'He Has Set a Standard' The Greenspan Story: The Fed chairman's greatest achievement. By MILTON FRIEDMAN

Hamas Tests Bush's Vision

Bush Will Keep Pushing "Ownership Society." But Not Tonight. - Fred Barnes, WSJ

Der Spiegel IRAN AND THE BALANCE OF POWER 'Of Course We Have the Right to the Bomb' Iran is determined in its effort to develop a nuclear bomb. If it succeeds it will become the major power in the Middle East. The last hope for a deal appears to be in the hands of Moscow, which is in the dubious position of negotiating with Tehran while at the same time building nuclear facilities for Iran and providing the weapons to defend them.

BBC Chavez accuses US embassy 'spies'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his country's agents have infiltrated an alleged spy ring at the US embassy.

UPI Analysis: India, U.S. nuke deal hits wall

Washington Realist Democracy Promotion and Realism

"Real State of US Foreign Policy 2006" -- Airing on C-Span at 8 pm
H14 Financial Times Permanent five agree to Iran’s UN referral China and Russia have agreed to back the referral of Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN’s Security Council, bowing to pressure from the US and European powers.

Russian stance raises fears over Abkhazia … Western diplomats feared the move could bolster moves towards a de facto merger with Russia,

LEADER: The US faces a real dilemma over Hamas

Quartet urges Hamas to fall into line over Israel or face funding cuts

COMMENT: How to reform a winner- takes-all economy progressive tax system has long been part of the way the US has balanced the desire for a free economy with the values of equity, writes Gene Sperling, a former national economic adviser to President Clinton

Leader Risks of reprocessingThe US used to be rigorously consistent in its efforts to stop the spread of nuclear bombs.

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: ' THE CIVILISED WORLD FACES UNPRECEDENTED DANGERS '

COMMENT: Democrats land punches but remain divided

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Why America needs to open its doors wide to foreign talent It makes no sense to educate foreign students at US universities then send them home, taking their talents with them, writes Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel.

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Anxious agenda: Bush will battle to turn his stumbling second term into a legacy of reform Preparing to address the nation, the US president has had to tackle the issues bequeathed him by the man who has occupied the White House for the past five years: himself. His room for manoeuvre is limited by fiscal deficit and dwindling political capital, but national security may help power a fightback.

New Bosnia chief makes boosting economy priority

India's new oil minister poised for pipeline diplomacy

Security costs hit rebuilding of Iraq power sector

US consumers dip into savings as spending rises
H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial
H16 New Republic Bush's wiretapping program: yes or no? by Richard A. Posner & Philip B. Heymann

Weekly Standard Energy and the Executive Looking over the president's State of the Union options for the nation's energy policy. by Irwin M. Stelzer

Oil execs refuse to testify at Senate hearing...

KR Bush faces daunting political challenge in State of the Union

NBC/WSJ Poll: Voters Turning Against Bush, Want Iraq Exit

Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -

Prewar Iraq inquiry stalled by probe of war architectwho had clearances reinstated despite spy scandals

H17 Daily Telegraph Pressure mounting over Iran Western countries have made a final attempt to persuade Russia and China to report Iran to the United Nations for possible sanctions after Britain said 11th-hour talks with Teheran had yielded "nothing new".

Israel cuts off cashIsraeli funds to the Palestinian Authority have been cut off after Hamas rejected international demands that it renounce violence and recognise the Jewish state.

Leader Saddam unrepentantThe trial of Saddam illustrates the extraordinary hazards of judicial proceedings after an era in which every facet of national life has been made prey to personal whim.
H18 Independent The world according to George W Bush
Tonight, US President delivers annual State of the Union address as world powers meet in London to discuss global flashpoints
President aims to rally America after dismal year
Britain and US split over defeating Afghan opium trade


H19 Defense Trade DataU.S. Government Accountability Office A 10-page review of defence sales/purchases of defence articles and services between the U.S. and other countries

An International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era AEI-Brookings Joint Center

Global Imbalances: The Blind Men and the Elephant Brookings Institution A 25-page U.S. paper reviewing competing explanations for the pattern of global imbalances and the magnitude of the U.S. external debt
H20 Slate It Is Unwise To Say "No" to Chairman Al: Was Greenspan a consensus builder? Or a totalitarian dictator? Daniel Gross

The Silliest Speech in the Union: What's wrong with the president's annual address. John Dickerson

H21 Bloggers And Journalists - Crooked Timber


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Joshua Marshall - Daniel Drezner - Laura Rozen - the washington note - Syria Comment - David Corn - William Arkin - Phil Carter - Helena Cobban - Matt Yglesias - Oxblog - Brad DeLong
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H1 New York Times A Little Democracy or a Genie Unbottled Free and fair elections in the Middle East have unleashed political forces that can hardly be seen as friendly to the United States.

NYT Magazine Why Not Build a Better Bomb By JAMES TRAUBNuclear nonproliferation needs rethinking.

Caught By Surprise - Again - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek Arafat created one of the most ill-disciplined, corrupt and ineffective organizations ever to be taken seriously on the world stage

Democracy Arsenal - State of the Union: 10 Things Bush Needs to Say on Foreign Policy

Financial Times COMMENT: Four good reasons to have faith in Europe's future By Dominique Moisi

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Monetary union is not for the poor By Wolfgang Munchau

Bush to offer vision of US world leadership
H2 Turkish National Security Chief Speaks at The Washington Institute

SlateToday's Papers - antiwar.com / Wikipedia / technorati

Washington Post Bush's Midterm Challenge

The Security Adviser Who Wants the Role, Not the Stage Hadley Prefers Audience of One

Bush's Choice on Iran - Jackson Diehl

In Iran, It's the Regime, Stupid - Robert Kagan

Guardian Hamas will make a deal Azzam Tamimi

Can Hamas Be Tamed? - Michael Herzog, Foreign Affairs

Debka A Fatal Misconception Rather than Intelligence Failure

Los Angeles Times Hitching a free ride with the U.S. By Michael Mandelbaum

Where Did Colin Powell Go? - Fred Kaplan

Sunday Telegraph For those who miss the Cold War, some bad news I miss the Cold War. I know I ought not to, but I just can't help it, says Niall Ferguson.
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

NYT Editorial Jailing a Critic in Kurdistan Iraq's elected leaders have no legitimate reason to fear an uninhibited press. But Iraqis have reason to worry about leaders who lock up their critics.

What is Kurdistan?KurdishMedia

Syria to Grant 300,000 Kurds Citizenship


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FT Bird flu found in northern Cyprus

Democratic parties of Armenia and Kurdistan (Iraq) established ...Regnum
H4 New York Times A Little Democracy or a Genie Unbottled Free and fair elections in the Middle East have unleashed political forces that can hardly be seen as friendly to the United States.

Why We Listen By PHILIP BOBBITT In the debate over whether the National Security Agency's eavesdropping violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, we must not lose sight of the fact that the world we entered on 9/11 will require rewriting that statute and other laws.

The World: How Hamas Rose From Wild Card to Power

Iran to Use Missiles if Attacked, Military Chief Says
Rice Admits U.S. Underestimated Hamas Strength
66 Found Dead in Debris of Collapsed Roof in Poland
Pipe Fixed, Russian Gas Starts to Flow to Georgia
Hussein Trial Erupts, and Expulsions Ensue
Despite Victory by Hamas, Control of Palestinian Security Forces Remains Uncertain
Haitian Priest Out of Jail
Before Nuclear Regulators' Meeting, Iran Allows Inspectors Access to One Site
Antiwar Campaigner Speaks on Chávez Broadcast
Bombings at Christian Sites Leave 3 Dead and 15 Hurt
A New Face in Iran Resurrects an Old Defiance
Editorial The Pain That Is Yet to Come Absent policy changes to curb its borrowing, America cannot escape the consequences of its debt indefinitely.

DAVID BROOKS The Long Transition Palestine is entering the most traumatic phase in its democratic transition, when a revolutionary people is compelled to transform itself into an ordinary polity.

The World: Guess Who Likes the G.I.'s in Iraq (Look in Iran's Halls of Power)

Editorial Spies, Lies and Wiretaps Instead of the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the warrantless spying on Americans, we've received only the familiar mix of political spin, clumsy historical misinformation and a couple of big, dangerous lies.

Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him NASA's top climate scientist says the Bush administration tried to stop him from talking about emissions linked to global warming.
H5 Washington Post Bush's Midterm Challenge Tuesday's State of the Union speech is an opportunity for Bush to seize the initiative from the Democrats and frame the election season.

Bush's Choice on Iran - Jackson Diehl

In Iran, It's the Regime, Stupid - Robert Kagan If Iran's possession of a nuclear weapon is truly intolerable, then the only answer is a military invasion. If that sounds unappealing, we should pursue political change.

The Security Adviser Who Wants the Role, Not the Stage Hadley Prefers Audience of One

In Central Asia, New Players, Same Game By Nicholas Schmidle

Global Warming Debate Shifts to 'Tipping Point' Scientists are debating whether the climate is changing so rapidly that, within decades, humans will be helpless to slow or reverse the trend.

Q& A: Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan 'The Military Is Not the Answer'

Israelis Seek to Isolate Palestinian Authority Officials Urge Aid Boycott if Hamas Takes Role

Rice Rules Out Aiding Hamas-Led Government Secretary to Map Strategy With U.N., Europeans

Chaos Greets Hussein Trial Hussein is removed from court, defense team leaves soon after case resumes under new judge.

Editorial An Opportunity for Darfur

Ban the Bombast! State of the Union? It's Nothing but Theater

H6 Guardian Hamas will make a deal Azzam Tamimi: If Israel withdraws from the territories it occupied in 1967, the movement will end armed resistance.

The world after Greenspan The big event in the world economy is not the Davos economic forum - which ended at the weekend - but the fact that Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, will be attending his last Fed meeting tomorrow before retiring.

Book throws new light on Iraq invasion

The Observer Iran warns of missile strike Revolutionary Guard general puts West on notice not to interfere as Tehran presses ahead with nuclear power programme.

The Hamas revolution Peter Beaumont

Leader Victory for Hamas is a protest, not a call to armsFew states in the Middle East can boast elections peacefully conducted, with a high turnout and international recognition for fairness.

Now the real test for HamasPalestine's majority party must swap terrorism for political strategies. Then perhaps real progress can be made towards peace.

Demand for tougher abortion laws · Poll reveals growing concern over late terminations. · Blair under pressure to agree review as MPs urge change.
H7 Why We Should Accept bin Laden's Truce Offer - John Arquilla, SF Chronicle

Newsweek What Hamas Won: A Mess It Can’t Fix?

U.S. in Direct Talks With Sunni Insurgents

NYT Magazine Why Not Build a Better Bomb By JAMES TRAUBNuclear nonproliferation needs rethinking.

Weekly Standard Getting ToughFrank Gaffney's prescription for fighting the war on terror.by Fred Barnes

Is Democracy The Answer? J. Klein M. Goodwin J. Glanz WFB P. Buchanan
U.S. & Germany: Back Together Again - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

H8 BBC Pressing questions Condoleezza Rice sets off on crucial diplomatic tour

EU hosts last-ditch talks on Iran
The EU is set to hold urgent talks with Iran to try to resolve a stand-off over its nuclear programme.
The long road to Iran sanctions

KR West has few options in preventing a nuclear Iran, experts say

New Republic How to practice journalism in Iraqby Lawrence F. Kaplan
H9 Ha’aretz – Hamas hints at long-term truce in return for '67 borders

U.S. Jewish leaders consider financially assisting fired AIPAC officials

Analysis: Wave of democracy pits Israel against 'Arab street'

Can Hamas Be Tamed? - Michael Herzog, Foreign Affairs

Debka A Fatal Misconception Rather than Intelligence Failure

BBC Gun-to-ballot Hamas's electoral success sparks soul-searching

Hamas faces European aid threat The EU will not fund the Palestinian Authority under Hamas if it does not recognise Israel, Germany's leader says.

Gaza strapped What difference will Hamas make to the Palestinian economy?

Israeli ex-spy chief: Kill Hamas leaders

Yedioth Ahronoth Hamas: Ceasefire possible

KR Hamas' conservative brand of Islam stirs worry among Palestinians

Jerusalem Post Hamas spells trouble for Egypt, Jordan By ORLY HALPERN These friends of the US (and Israel) are under the most pressure to follow US democratization plans.

Saudi Arabia promises PA $100mExclusive: Could compensate for money held back by Israel, EU after Hamas win
H10 Christian Science Monitor Why Bush may avoid fiery words on Iran With diplomacy in full swing, he is likely to tread lightly on Tehran's nuclear program Tuesday.

Bush's five years: state of a changed union The nation is more polarized, but observers also see signs of budding civic engagement.

Israeli right may make gains
Hamas's victory is likely to influence parliamentary elections slated for March.

Ballot-box win boosts Iraqi radical
Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc will have about 30 of the Shiite coalition's 128 seats in the new Iraqi parliament.

The watch list for the next Fed chairman What's ahead for the US economy under Ben Bernanke after he takes over the Fed this week?

NATO can't blink in Afghanistan
H11 IHT

BBC No answers The World Social Forum can't agree how to fight globalisation
H12 RFE/RL


Newsweek Russia: The Ominous Return of the KGB

New Republic After a democratic revolution, is Georgia reverting to tyranny? by Charles A. Kupchan
H13 The TimesGrow up, Google: you've accepted censorship, now confront copyright William Rees-Mogg The wonderful search engine not only threatens copyright, but the whole copyright structure of authors, editors and publishers

Sunday Times MI5: we've run out of leads A leaked secret document reveals that almost nothing has been discovered about the July 7 bombings, the worst terrorist attack against Britain, despite months of investigation

BORIS JOHNSON DON'T LAUGH: I'M SERIOUS I can see there is something noble and idealistic about a united Europe

SIMON JENKINS: Our boys are off to tame the Afghan. And they'll fail

WSJ Mideast Crises Reset Agenda
Iran and Hamas have emerged as key tests of international resolve and U.S. leadership, and what happens with them may determine the course of the Middle East for a long time.

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Four good reasons to have faith in Europe's future By Dominique Moisi

COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Monetary union is not for the poor By Wolfgang Munchau

Bush to offer vision of US world leadership

Election result poses dilemma for Bush in his war on terror

COMMENT: The world must help Afghanistan through its risky pause By Gareth Evans

Republican bid to reshape party's image exposes tensions

Dissent rules at Davos forum on every big issue

COMMENT: Google is putting its own freedoms at risk in China By John Gapper

Microsoft faces more EU antitrust action Microsoft is facing a possible new legal challenge in its long antitrust battle with the European Commission that could force it to give sensitive information about its Windows operating system to its rivals, largely free of charge.

Corporate confidence, geopolitical uneaseNot even the unpleasant surprise of weak fourth quarter growth in the US could shake the strong belief at this year's World Economic Forum that 2006 will be a good...
H15 Los Angeles Times Hitching a free ride with the U.S. By Michael Mandelbaum THE WIDELY differing reactions to Iran's drive for nuclear weapons among the countries of the world present a paradox: Those in greatest jeopardy from such weapons seem willing to do the least to stop it. This apparently illogical situation illustrates the most important and least appreciated feature of 21st century international relations: the remarkable role of the United States.

Where Did Colin Powell Go? - Fred Kaplan

CIA Broadens Assassination Efforts Missile-firing drones can hit Al Qaeda in remote areas. Host nations are not always warned.

Can fanatics become pragmatists? By David Grossman


H16 Conservatives' Palace Revolt

Bush: Losing the Script and Finding His Voice - Mike Allen, Time

NYT The New Corporate Outsourcing By CLIFFORD J. LEVYOver time, Big Business has learned how to love Big Government. Or at least some of it.
Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -
H17 Daily Telegraph Murder will outWestern liberal apologists for Islamism deplore the movement's murderous modus vivendi while secretly admiring what they imagine to be its ideological purity.

Bush's softer stance US President George W Bush has sought to soften up Americans ahead of a crucial attempt to relaunch his second term in office.

Sunday Telegraph Don't blame Bush: this is Arafat's fault Con Coughlin explains why the Palestinians voted for Hamas and finds cause for optimism: it's often hardliners who make critical concessions. For those who miss the Cold War, some bad news I miss the Cold War. I know I ought not to, but I just can't help it, says Niall Ferguson.

Straw rules out military action against Iran

Our troops 'will be targets'British troops being sent to lawless Helmand province in southern Afghanistan will "stir up a hornets' nest" and provide "plenty more targets" for insurgents, a senior officer has said.
H18 Independent UN unveils plan to release untapped wealth of $7 trillion (and solve the world's problems at a stroke) The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims.

Stephen King: America beware - dollar could be its downfall

Hamas: The hardliners appear ready to share power, but will their rivals believe it?

Blair and Bush 'conspired to go to war regardless of United Nations'

Hamish McRae: Bono fide: it takes an outsider to speak the language of the new world-trade order

Mission impossible? Is the British Army being asked to fight a battle too far in Afghanistan?

Russia 'makes second arrest' over British spy scandal

Police 'faked Tube death log'



H19 Qaeda detainee's 'mysterious' releaseFormer Osama bodyguard who helped leaders escape let go for unknown reasons

GOODBYE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS, HELLO WASHINGTON CONFUSION?
Dani Rodrik Harvard University
January 2006

H20 Slate
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H21'PRESIDENT REAGAN: THE TRIUMPH OF IMAGINATION,' BY RICHARD REEVES The Great Delegator Richard Reeves depicts President Reagan as a man of big ideas and no patience for details.

'AMERICAN VERTIGO: TRAVELING AMERICA IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF TOCQUEVILLE,' BY BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY On the Road Avec M. Lévy

'ACCIDENTAL GENIUS: HOW JOHN CASSAVETES INVENTED AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM,' BY MARSHALL FINE Under His Influence
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H1 Center for American Progress - Restoring American Military Power - A Progressive Quadrennial Defense Review Read the full report (PDF)

The Atlantic The Perils of Primacy When too much power means not enough security by Benjamin Schwarz

Weekly Standard Iran or Bust The defining test of Bush's war presidency. by Jeffrey Bell

The Counterrevolution in Military Affairs Fashionable thinking about defense ignores the great threats of our time. by Ralph Peters

Israel After Sharon . . . And Palestine after Fatah. by Peter Berkowitz

I Am Not a Straussian by Robert Kagan

Washington Post To Tame Tehran
By Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani,
A nimble U.S. policy, one that plots a strategy beyond the next Security Council vote, can help opposition forces inside Iran succeed.

U.S. Policy Seen as Big Loser in Palestinian Vote Hamas victory suggests a failure of the Bush administration's strategy in the region

Catalonia Nears Autonomy Region's Plan for Self-Rule Seen as Alternative to Full Independence

Asia Times Why the West must reOrient Winds of change are blowing from China, and the West ignores them at its peril. As China's growth spearheads the general growth of Asia, particularly Southeast Asia and India, it foreshadows a different world, where for the first time in at least two centuries the West will become an economic minority. If the West does not adapt, it will die. - Francesco Sisci


POLL: 57% Americans support military action in Iran...
H2 PKK in Southern Kurdistan

SlateToday's Papers - antiwar.com / Wikipedia / technorati

Financial Times LEADER: Democratic ways to deal with Islamists

Rising Islamist Tide Redefines Middle East's Political Canvas

Security Implications of Russian Energy Policies - Keith C. Smith - CEPS Policy Briefs

Institute for International Economics, Michael Mussa Economic Forecast 2006 (Forecast as of December 2, 2005)

A Hundred Osamas: Islamist Threats and the Future of Counterinsurgency Strategic Studies Institute This 83-page U.S. monograph explores the "new jihad" and examines U.S. responses to it

Morgan Stanley Global: The Hollow Ring of Davos

Russia: Lessons Learned Freeman Spogli Institute for International StudiesPaper examining the limited success of U.S. policy in fostering regime change in the USSR/Russia

Policy Implications of Global ImbalancesRoyal Institute of International Affairs

RAND study examines the lessons learnt from Iraq reconstruction Publication/Download details

Iraq and Its Neighbors USIP Project

Drinking the Kool-Aid: Was the Iraq adventure doomed to fail or did the US administration mess it up? by Mark Leonard, Prospect, February 2006

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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Kurdish Leaders Comment On Unification Of Regional Government

Kurdistan Islamic Union not to join main Kurdish bloc in Iraqi parliament BBC Monitoring Service

EDM U.S., RUSSIAN DEFENSE LEADERS COURT BAKU WITH INCENTIVE OFFERS

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: An Unlikely Solution to Georgia’s Energy Woes


Armenia/Azerbaijan: Will Presidents' Meeting Yield Progress Toward Karabakh Peace Deal?

Turkey consults with US government on South Caucasus conflicts - Russian News - REGNUM

USA : Turkey-US hold 4th TIFA
H4 New York Times In One Village, Anger and a Hunger for Change Many Palestinian voters said they turned to Hamas out of exhaustion with Fatah's perceived corruption and incompetence.
Hamas Inherits Deficits, Threats and Anger
Hamas Leader Reaffirms Stance on Israel

Democracy's Double Standard By HOSSEIN DERAKHSHAN Shame on the U.S. for backing Iran's election boycott.

The Fed Speaks By STEVEN RATTNER As Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke should make his voice heard on economic policy.

Finding a Place for 9/11 in American History By JOSEPH J. ELLIS History suggests that we have faced greater challenges than Sept. 11 and triumphed, and that overreaction is a greater danger than complacency.
Hamas Is Facing a Money Crisis; Aid May Be Cut Hamas leaders face an array of threats: a huge government deficit, a likely cutoff of most aid, and international ostracism.
Iran Faults Russian Nuclear Proposal but Offers to Keep Talking
Iraqi Group Issues Video of Germans It Abducted
Georgia Signs Deal With Iran to Buy Natural Gas
Insecurity, Yes, but Iraq Gets a Passing Grade By ROGER COHEN

An Exotic Tool for Espionage: Moral Compass A group of intelligence officers and academics are meeting this weekend to hammer out a code of ethics for spies.

Editorial Straight Talk Needed on Pakistan It is not enough for President Bush to exchange pleasantries with Pakistan's leaders. He needs to address the concerns of the Pakistani people as well.

Bush Presses On in Legal Defense for Wiretapping Despite the administration's arguments, many legal scholars remain skeptical about the domestic spying program's legality.

State of the Union By Thomas L. Friedman - Friedman writes that with the President’s State of the Union address to be given on Tuesday, he once again urges the Bush Administration to make energy conservation the hallmark of the second term. Not doing so would ignore the most important issue of the day. He writes that US oil consumption funds the violent brand if Islam we are now fighting, and Chinese and Indian consumption will fuel energy-efficient industries. He urges a phased-in gasoline tax to buy back SUV’s and spur the US auto industry on a campaign to build energy-efficient automobiles. Link to full text in primary source.

H5 Washington Post To Tame Tehran
By Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani,
A nimble U.S. policy, one that plots a strategy beyond the next Security Council vote, can help opposition forces inside Iran succeed.

U.S. Policy Seen as Big Loser in Palestinian Vote Hamas victory suggests a failure of the Bush administration's strategy in the region

Catalonia Nears Autonomy Region's Plan for Self-Rule Seen as Alternative to Full Independence

Tension Grows Between British, Iraqis: Governor's Threat of Noncooperation Adds to Mounting Unrest in Southern Province

China Unveils Reforms Facing increasing peasant unrest, Communist Party decrees extensive changes to help farmers and stop economic development from encroaching on their land.

Abbas Entreats Hamas
Fatah Youth Demand Leader's Resignation

H6 Guardian A triumph for SharonGerald Kaufman: Hamas's victory is the inevitable result of the failure to do anything about the oppression which Palestinians suffer.

Soft power James Harkin: In its negotiations with Iran over its nuclear ambitions, Europe has been promoting the embrace of "soft power" as an exciting new tool for diplomacy.

US threat to Hamas over $400 aidWashington tells Islamist group they must renounce terror. Israeli politicians condemn winComment: Gerald Kaufman

Leader Saving Darfur It is encouraging that the international community is back on the case where, on some estimates, fatalities could reach 100,000 a month if nothing is done

Rock of agents Recent spying allegations should not be swept under the political carpet, writes Nick Paton Walsh.
H7 Moscow's Mad Gamble - Mortimer Zuckerman, US News & World Report
A Real Peasants' Revolt in China - Jennifer Chou, Weekly Standard

Deconstructing bin Laden's Talking Points - Victor Davis Hanson, Chicago Tribune

Eastern European bird flu similar to 1918 strain...

New York Review of Books Genocide in Slow MotionBy Nicholas D. Kristof

Jimmy Carter and the Culture of Death By Garry WillsOn Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter.

Washington Realist Hamas aftereffects, US/India and Iran

Foreign Policy
Not the Prince of Peace

By Gideon Lichfield

Ariel Sharon is being hailed as the man who created the best chance for restarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In fact, he made it unlikely that a real peace process will ever happen.


H8 POLL: 57% Americans support military action in Iran...

US Won't Complete Iraq Projects

U.S. seized Iraqi wives as tactic Used as 'leverage' against terror suspects; Iraqi: 9 female relatives shared cell.

Washington Times Muslim states wary of Hamas' success

Young Palestinians ponder future under Hamas (Joshua Mitnick)

BBC US wants end to Syrian 'bullying' The US tells the son of slain Lebanese ex-leader Rafik Hariri it wants an end to Syrian "intimidation" in Lebanon.

UK to press for action on Iran


Washington Institute
America and the Middle East, circa 2006
On January 11, 2006, James F. Hoge Jr. and Stuart Rothenberg addressed The Washington Institute’s Special Policy Forum to discuss the course of U.S. Middle East policy over the coming year.
End ofthe Road Mapby Robert Dreyfuss

H9 Ha’aretz – Iran mission to UN: More study needed to prove Nazi Holocaust

BBC Palestinian groups clash in Gaza Palestinian gunmen exchange fire in Gaza amid political turmoil in the wake of Hamas' decisive election victory.
Hamas sets world a conundrum

Challenges ahead Difficult balancing act awaits a victorious Hamas in office
Young pretender A profile of Ismail Haniya, a leading Hamas 'moderate'

Hamas, the Mussolini Test and Iran - Richard Baehr, The American Thinker

Jerusalem Post Column One: The anatomy of Hamas's victoryBy CAROLINE GLICKThe failure of Israel's leadership is a significant cause of Hamas's election victory.

Diplomacy: Who's advising the acting PM? By HERB KEINONOne of Olmert's strengths is that he knows the Big World - and he knows it well.

Slate Fatah No Más, Hola Hamas: The international press analyzes the Palestinian elections.

How To Civilize Hamas: Will Wednesday's winners be too busy fixing potholes to wage jihad? Scott MacMillan

No Loss For Peace - John Podhoretz, New York Post

Heritage Foundation Hamas’s Victory: The United States Should Not Recognize or Aid a Terrorist Regime by James Phillips

Washington Institute Surprise for Hamas, Anger within Fatah, and a Crisis for the Palestinian Authority

The Tyranny Of Israel Over AmericaPalestine Chronicle

New Republic The rise of Hamas and the fall of Palestine by Yossi Klein Halevi

Jews For Jazeera: Is Al Jazeera a Mossad Front? Conspiracy Planet
H10 Weekly Standard Iran or Bust The defining test of Bush's war presidency. by Jeffrey Bell

The Counterrevolution in Military Affairs by Ralph Peters

Israel After Sharon . . . And Palestine after Fatah. by Peter Berkowitz

Reading Saddam's Email What to do with an enemy's hard drives. by Michael Tanji

I Am Not a Straussianby Robert Kagan

The Ice Cream Party and the Spinach Party by Walter Russell Mead

National Review Online Victor Davis Hanson: Is “outsourcing” multilateralism?
H11 IHT War on terror à la française MARC PERELMAN The French approach to terrorism could provide some useful lessons to the Bush administration as it faces growing pressure to amend its policies.

Meanwhile: Three films that break ground in the Middle East GRAHAM E. FULLER Three new films suggest signs of a turning point in the entrenched black-and-white perceptions of the combatants in the Middle East.

BBC Sound of discord? Europe's thinkers fail to find harmony at crisis conference

Put in context More to US-India row over Iran than meets the eye US Cuts Europe Troop Numbers
H12 RFE/RL El-Baradei Says U.S. Should Give Iran Nuclear Reactors

Armenia/Azerbaijan Will Presidents' Meeting Advance Karabakh Peace Deal?


EDM RUSSIA WELCOMES UZBEKISTAN INTO ITS EURASIAN ENERGY EMPIRE
- U.S., RUSSIAN DEFENSE LEADERS COURT BAKU WITH INCENTIVE OFFERS
- COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONDEMNS COMMUNISM OVER MOSCOW'S OPPOSITION


BBC Chechens freeze as gas is cut off Chechnya's gas supply is crippled by a pipeline accident while nearby Georgia hopes for extra gas from Iran.

Armenia's Third Contingent of Peacekeepers Now in Iraq

H13 The Times Hamas stands its ground as West demands change Mahmoud al-Zahar is widely regarded as the Hamas leader in Gaza, here he explains to The Times the Hamas worldview

Show restraint or lose aid money, say donors
The Palestinian view
The Israeli view


Basra governor threatens British

WSJ Hamas Has Won. What's Next? To ensure its vital interests, Israel will have to act unilaterally. By MICHAEL B. OREN

Islam's Political Influence Gains MomentumHamas's election victory is resonating through the Arab world, offering evidence of the mounting political influence of Islam. The U.S. said it will review its aid program.


A Strong Executive Does Watergate's legacy hinder the war on terror? By JAMES TARANTO
H14 Financial Times LEADER: Democratic ways to deal with Islamists

What would happen if the forward march of globalisation was suddenly slammed into reverse? The FT’s John Thornhill reports exclusively as 30 business leaders, trade ministers and economists discuss crisis scenarios in Davos.

EU slows push to take Iran to Security Council

57% Americans favor military action in Iran

Central Europe seeks EU help over Russian gas supplies

Half of Israelis say 'talk to Hamas'

US economy growing at slowest pace in 3 years

New Fed chief looks to maintain unity as Greenspan vacates chair

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Where liberal democracy is most likely to emerge

'Normal' American neocon falls foul of philosopher
H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Mideast uncertainty, again

Hamas in charge By Beshara Doumani It gave the Palestinians God and hope. They gave it power.

U.S. Learns Elections Can Be Two-Edged Sword

Bush's Ratings Sink, but Trust Remains

Planted Articles May Be Violation

Researchers Make a Bird Flu Vaccine From Human Cold Virus
H16 CHEVRON OIL PROFIT SOARS TO RECORD HIGHS...
Bush calls Hillary Clinton 'formidable'CBS interview: Iraq 'tough,' Iran can't have nukes, spy program not 'easy decision.'
58% of Americans rate Bush a failure

Blogometer realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird thru GovExec -

Vanity Fair MR. FITZ GOES TO WASHINGTON The special prosecutor scarifying the White House has put away al-Qaeda terrorists and indicted Conrad Black. Is anyone beyond his reach? David Margolick profiles U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald—bachelor, brainiac, legal juggernaut. Read the article.
H17 Daily Telegraph Abbas should go Mahmoud Abbas has failed in his primary objective of reopening peace talks with Israel and has presided over the implosion of his own party, Fatah.


Asia Times Iran's challenge to the UNIndia and China have overnight slowed the US's drive to take Iran's nuclear dossier to the United Nations. But the issue of possible sanctions or other punitive measures against Tehran has not gone away, something the "paralyzed" UN will have to address. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

India and Saudi Arabia move beyond oil Although the bedrock of relations between India and Saudi Arabia is business, King Abdullah and his 250-member delegation had other issues to tackle during a visit to New Delhi. Chief among these was terrorism, with the countries making a breakthrough of sorts. - Siddharth Srivastava
H18 Independent Analysis: Will this mean a path to peace or a road to war?

Robert Fisk: The problem with democracy

Two billion journeys in China's own great migration



Developing a Security and Defence Policy in the European Union: A View From the British PresidencyCicero Foundation
H19 BBC 'Fight the net' Declassified report reveals US plans for 'info operations'
Heritage Foundation The Hollow Force: Background and Issues Will defense funding for the future be adequate to prevent the return of the hollow force?

Atlantic Monthly Man Versus Mine Iraqi insurgents have perfected the use of lethal explosives, with profound implications for our military operations in Iraq by Robert Bryce

Transparency in the Arms IndustryStockholm International Peace Research Institute

Thomas Barnett Now is the time for all good economists to come to the aid of the military-market nexus
H20 Atlantic Monthly The Point of No Return First Pakistan's A.Q. Khan showed that any country could have made a nuclear bomb. Then he showed—not once but three times—why the nuclear trade will never be shut down by William Langewiesche

New Yorker Can Germans Joke About Jews?

Canada Will Defy US, Deploy Military Ships to 'Northwest Passage'
H21 Book review The superpowers' balance sheet The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis (333p, Allen Lane, £20)
London Review of Books The Global Id John Lanchester: Is Google a good thing? The Google Story by David Vise The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
Weekly Standard Life of a Salesmanby Joseph Epstein



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