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


Ext links Blogs - memeorandum - Slate's Today's Blogs - Blogometer - Juan Cole - Kevin Drum - Belgravia Dispatch - Thomas P.M. Barnett
Joshua Marshall - Daniel Drezner - Laura Rozen - the washington note - Syria Comment - David Corn - William Arkin - Phil Carter - Helena Cobban - Matt Yglesias - Oxblog - Brad DeLong
winds of change - - CounterterrorismBlog OutSide the Beltway - InstaPundit - Kausfiles - andrewsullivan.com - Becker Posner-- armscontrolwonk - Registan   ¶ 10:39