Foreign Press Review - January 28 2005 0128-2006f
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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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