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H1 From The American Interest: Barry Posen on foreign policy after George W. Bush: The case for restraint Click to read comments from Francis Fukuyama, Josef Joffe, Walter Russell Mead, Niall Ferguson, Owen Harries, G. John Ikenberry, Lilia Shevtsova, Stephen D. Krasner, Wang Jisi, James Q. Wilson, Bronislaw Geremek, C. Raja Mohan, Ruth Wedgwood and Itamar Rabinovich.

From Mother Jones, a special issue on The Moral Dilemma of Leaving Iraq: Interviews with more than 50 experts, from General Petraeus' advisers to antiwar activists.

IHT Bold script, weak actors By HENRY A. KISSINGER / TMS

The confluence of American, Arab, Israeli and European concerns encourages hope

IAEA: Iran Needs 3-8 Years to Produce Bomb

Stratfor Geopolitical Diary: Iran's Debate Over Risk

ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT BRIEFING My way President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tightens his grip on Iran

Washington Post Syrian Site Resembles Reactor Independent experts say images may be suspected nuclear facility that was bombed by Israel in Sept

Administration Diverges on Missile Defense Bush Pushes for System in Europe; Gates Urges 'Definitive Proof' of Iranian Threat

A Villain To Our Rescue By Robert J. Samuelson, We need to be smarter about globalization -- and not simply parrot popular stereotypes.

The collapse of Bush's foreign policy
Salon From Turkey to Iraq to Pakistan, the mounting chaos proves the White House is just winging it. By Juan Cole

Guardian At last, consensus in the Middle East: all agree these talks are bound to fail Jonathan Freedland: Pessimism on Annapolis is everywhere. The only hope is that the ailing players' desperation drives them to conjure up something

Violence in Gaza if talks collapse
Failure at Annapolis undermines Palestinian moderates, say analysts

Al-Hakim on Proposed South Central Federation

Christian Science Monitor In raid's wake, Syria turns defensive

The Economist Roll out the $100 barrel? The price of crude oil may be dipping again, but a significant record remains on the horizon

Iraq, the Surge, Partition, and the War: Public Opinion by City and Region Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies Full Report (PDF; 836 KB)

IHT Have you heard of the EU? By LORENZO FIORAMONTI AND SONIA LUCARELLI

The EU's problem is the absence of a clear social and political message.

The Future of the American Idea Bernard Lewis November 2007 Atlantic Monthly

Financial Times COMMENT: Rosy forecasts come with an economic health warning According to the IMF, the world is in the midst of a period of . While a happy outcome depends on sustained openness and monetary stability, this can no longer be ensured by developed countries alone. Emerging markets have become big players, writes Martin Wolf

Iraq fades as a hot political issue The sharp fall in the number of US troops killed over the past three months has brought about a corresponding reduction in the political temperature back home

US signals its intent on Iran missile shield George W. Bush said a missile defence system was urgently needed to protect the US and Europe from Iran, warning that Tehran could have the capability to strike the US and Europe with ballistic missiles within eight years

CAP Ten Questions for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the Middle East

NAF Reframing and Rethinking the Misnamed 'Global War on Terror'

When 'block thinking' on Islam blurs all subtleties By Charles Taylor

H2 Stratfor Geopolitical Diary Turkey as a Regional Power The U.S. needs Turkey more than Turkey needs the U.S. Watching Turkey make its moves, we wonder less about the direction it is going than about the limits of its ambition. By George Friedman

stratfor geopolitical diary: Why the PKK is Baiting Turkey

Report -Beyond Suspicion: Rethinking U.S.-Turkish Relations Ian Lesser Download File, PDF 809 KB

Book - THE NEW TURKISH REPUBLIC - Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World Graham E. Fuller

Washington Institute The PKK and the Armenian Genocide Resolution: US-Turkish Relations at a Critical Juncture. By Soner Cagaptay

CSIS Time for High-Level Diplomacy with Turkey?

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Book - Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time by Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George

Book - Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling

Book - The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling

Book - Perception and Misperception in International Politics ) by Robert Jervis

Book - The Dynamics of Coercion by Daniel Byman

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Independent, Baghdad may be unable to stop attacks by PKK fighters By Patrick Cockburn

Why We Are Losing Turkey - Tony Blankley, Washington Times

Turkey's Identity Crisis - Ralph Peters, USA Today

NYT U.S. Officials Upbraid Kurds for Failing to Halt Guerrillas

Washington Times Kurds try Turkish patience along border (By Andrew Borowiec)

Le Monde La Turquie et le piège kurde, par Daniel Vernet

William Arkin Toward a Turkish Incursion

Iranians Reap Gains From Crisis Over Kurdish Attacks on Turkey Bloomberg

NYT Turkish Premier Renews Warning Over Rebels

Turk won't 'wait forever' for Iraq to act on Kurds, Erdogan says

Analysts: PKK Military Tactically Strong

CSM Why Turkey is wary of Kurdish rebel trap Turks broadly support a strike into Iraq, but that could play into the hands of the PKK

Turkey: An Emerging Global Actor Allen Collinsworth

Jim Lobe POLITICS-US: Bush Risks Falling Off Turkish-Kurd Tightrope

AP Turkey Launches Diplomatic Offensive

04:00 'Kürt sorunu bizim sorunumuz'

DT Kurdish guerrillas parade Turkish hostages

Why Iraqi Kurds could oppose Turkish kin

FT Iraq acts to avoid Turkish incursion

Guardian Iraq seeks to placate Turkey over PKK Iraq has vowed to do all it can to disrupt the PKK fighters sheltering in its border region with Turkey

WSJ A Kurdish Lesson Reasons to avoid premature declarations of victory against terrorist groups. By BRET STEPHENS

Der Spiegel Anti-Kurdish Protests in Turkey: 'Allah Wants This War'

U.S., British Efforts To Stabilize Iraq-Turkey Border Intensify

Kurdish Turks: Waiting for US Washington Post

Iraq's Maliki Vows to Curb Kurdish Rebels

Turkey's War Drums Grow Louder
TIME

LA Times Kurdish rebels offer Turkey a truce

Asia Times Another trans-Caspian
pipe dream A proposed trans-Caspian pipeline from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan that would ultimately deliver gas to the world via Turkey has strong backing from the United States. Technically, bar some minor seismic activity, there's no problem. Politically, it's a veritable earthquake. - Robert M Cutler

Al hayat The Kurdish Crisis and the Image of the State Abdullah Iskandar- The Kurdish problem in Turkey is a Turkish problem, pertaining to how a national centralized and egalitarian state deals with a significant ethnic and cultural minority.

Satterfield "not pleased" with Iraqi Kurds

Petraeus concern for Turkey raid in Iraq BBC

Regional Press Concern Over PKK

Iraq, Turkey: Igniting the Kurdish Rivalry Stratfor

Lesser: 'Ermeni Tasarısı Krizi Bitmiş Değil'

Brookings Iraq at a Crossroads with Barham Salih, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq

Oil prices drop with Turkey talks

House panel OKs giving ships to Turkey

The last straw (Robert ELLIS )

Türkiye şimdi 'Batılılaşıyor' Slavoj Zizek

DT Harekâtın zararı yararından fazla

FT Irak'ı işgal berbat bir fikir

NYT Türkler Irak'a girerse bölgesel savaş çıkar

WP Ankara tereddüt ederek akılcı davranıyor –

Israel Lobby May Be Source of Armenian Genocide Resolution

Stability in the Middle East: American hypocrisy, Turkish patience
Today's Zaman

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Statement from the Presidency of the Kurdistan Region: The ...
By KRG.org

"Let the Americans Try and Stop Us"
The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Kurdish Editor Urges PKK to Alter Strategy, Adapt to Changes in Turkey, Region

PKK Website Says PKK Ready to Cease Fire If Turkey Stops Attacks

Iraqi Kurdish Writer Says PKK Not Terrorists but "Hardened Revolutionary Force"

Türkiye baskılarının ilk meyvelerini topluyor

Emekli general: Hayatında terörist görmeyenler TV'de yorum yapıyor

US Calls Kurdish Leaders Lax at Border

Iraq's Talabani, US Envoy View Political Developments, Security Challenges

Tens of thousands of Turks protest PKK violence at soldiers' funerals, in streets - International Herald Tribune

Iraqi Kurdish Press Roundup on Turkey-PKK Crisis

Over 20,000 Iraq Kurd Peshmergas Deployed Along Border - Website

Beirut Paper Interviews Turkish FM on Lebanon, Turkey-Iraq Relations

Turkish Opposition Leader Iraq Should Choose Between Militant Kurds, Turkey

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 23 Oct 07

Jordan Urges Peaceful Solution to Turkey-PKK Crisis - Paper

Iraq Moves on Rebel Fighters to Smooth Relations with

Turkey Seeks Lost Troops as Pressure to Act Grows

Kurdistan Conflict: US Urges Iraq to Act Against Kurdish Rebels - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

American Chronicle: Turkey, Armenians. Kurds, Iraq and the US

UNHCR concerned at Turkey-Iraq border tensions

NATO defense talks likely to focus on Afghanistan, Turkey

Erdoğan Olmert'le görüştü

Turkey’s Hidden Agenda Kurdish Aspect

Turkey, Israel move forward with multipurpose pipeline

Turkish Minister Says All Iraqi Groups Should Act With Tolerance, Cooperate

Iraq to Close PKK Offices, Limit Its "Terrorist Activities" - PM

British Premier Views Measures Against Militant Kurds

Turkey May Impose Trade Sanctions Against Iraq - Turkish Premier

Egypt Stresses Role of Iraq's Neighbours in Stabilizing Country, Region

Egyptian Radio Highlights Turkey-PKK Standoff

Turkish Opposition Leader Iraq Should Choose Between Militant Kurds, Turkey

Turkey to Cut Electricity to Iraq If Necessary - Minister

Iraq to Send "High-Level" Delegation to Turkey

Times yine Kandil'de

DTP’liler Nobel alabilir mi?

Roj TV telefonuna kalbi dayanmadı

Pişmanlık Yasası için gizli oturum gündemde

Malatya’da silahlı çatışma: 1 terörist öldü

Tuğluk: Milliyetçi çatışma felaket olur

Ermeni anıtı yerine eve gitti

Falah: PKK sorununu politik diyaloğla çözelim

Yazıcıoğlu Şırnak'ta

Eski DEP'li Dicle: Meşru müdafaa var

Bahçeli: Şimdi bedel ödetme zamanıdır

Provokasyon olursa sokaktan çekiliriz

Bir millet ayakta

'Türkiye'nin K.Irak'a girmeye niyeti yok'

DTP'li Demirtaş hakkında fezleke

USA AIMS TO START WAR IN MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIAN PUNDIT TELLS AZERI ... EurasiaNet

Babacan'ı Bağdat'ta 30 özel harekatçı korudu

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Turkey, Britain unveil strategic partnership document

Barroso: "Türkiye'nin terörizmle mücadele hakkı var"

EU enlargement chief urges Turkey to stick to law | Reuters

EurActiv.com - Olli Rehn: Turkey membership 'vital' for EU | EU - European Information on Enlargement & Neighbours

Amanda Akçakoca EU Reform Treaty: The last lap

TGC: Yayın durdurma kararı sansür

Meclis'te küresel ısınma araştırması

Nükleer Santral Yasası bugün TBMM'de

24 Ekim 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 ABD PKK’yı böyle vuracak

ABD bulacak jetler vuracak

Irak'tan altı somut talep 'Terör örgütünün topraklarınızı kullanmasını önleyin, lojistik desteği kesin, faaliyetleri durdurun, hareket alanını kısıtlayın, liderlerini tutuklayarak Türkiye'ye iade edin, PKK kamplarını kapatın...'

PKK'dan kahreden propaganda

Kahreden fotoğraflar

Uzman asker talebi

Erdoğan: Profesyonel harekat kadrosu şart

Holbrooke 'ABD, Türkiye'yi umursamadı'

Amerikalı Generaller Sınırda Görüşmelerde Bulundu

Beyaz Saray'dan sürpriz çıkış: Üzerinde eyleme geçilebilir istihbarat verebiliriz

Hedefteki katil

Kuzey Irak'ta peşmergeleri eğittiğimiz doğru değil

'Saldırı bekleyen PKK'lılar kamplardan uzak duruyor'

Nokta verelim siz de vurun

Amerikan istihbaratçıları ve özel kuvvetleri PKK’nın lider kadrolarına operasyonlar düzenler mi? Ruşen Çakır'ın analizi

'ABD, PKK'yı havadan vurabilir'

ABD havadan vuracak

"Türkiye'ye istihbarat verebiliriz"

PKK propagandası: Kayıp askerler aileleriyle canlı yayında buluşturuluyor

Uluslararası hava dönüyor
Murat Yetkin
Türkiye'ye destek var

Çiçek: Hedef bizden, zamanlama TSK’dan

Bilal Çetin Harekat zamanlamasını TSK belirleyecek...

Serdar Akinan Liderlik nerede?

Baykal’dan hükümete terör bombardımanı

Şamil Tayyar 8 asker kaçırıldı mı teslim mi oldu?

Turkey and US bring up potential for joint action

Bush telefonla arayıp söz verdi

F-16’larımız 50 km. girip kampları dağıttı

Diplomacy given a chance on the brink of incursion

İlk MGK’sında gündem PKK

Güngör URAS
Terörle mücadelenin faturası var

Fikret BİLA Orgeneral Büyükanıt: Şiddete kaçmayın

Erdoğan: Profesyonel harekat kadrosu şart

Serdar Turgut Ani patlayan militarizm

IRAK'A AMBARGO MESAJI

Mustafa Akyol PKK, El Kaide’nin stratejisini kullanıyor

Asker mi, siyaset mi yanıldı? Avni Özgürel

Başarısızlık olur mu? M.Ali Kışlalı

Barroso: "Türkiye'nin terörizmle mücadele hakkı var"

Zaaf imajı yayan ve moral bozan yayınlara yasak

MGK convening with special agenda on Iraq incursion

Taha AKYOL Kim kazanacak?

Sami KOHEN Ortak operasyon seçeneği

Cengiz Çandar Başbakan’la İngiltere’de: Sadece PKK’ya karşı ve Amerika ile

ABD ve İngiltere üçlü mekanizmada ısrarlı

Serdar Turgut Amerika stratejisi

Irak’a ekonomik yaptırım sinyali

Nuray Başaran Savaş sokağa inerse

Mücadelenin medya cephesi
İsmet Berkan

Hasan CEMAL Barzani'yi vurmak yanlıştır!

MAKAM UÇAĞIYLA REFERANDUM TURU

Bülent Keneş PKK’s Russian roulette and the cross-border incursion

Yavuz BaydaR The way in, the way out

Topçu birlikleri sınıra kaydırıldı

PKK’nın kaynaklarını kurutacağız

ABD, PKK’yı havadan vuracak

Haklı ve yalnız Haluk Şahin

ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ - Amerikalı eski elçiden ABD'ye PKK eleştirisi

Nejat Eslen Asimetrik bir savaş veriliyor, yaşanan kayıplar çok normal

Babacan "Sabrın son sınırındayız"

Fırat Hem Cudi'de hem Meclis'te konuşamazsın

Baydemir: Askerlerin yaşam hakkı korunmalı

F-16'lar o sabah vurdu

Sadi Somuncuoğlu İktidarın siyasi iradesi neden yok?

Bakan Babacan Irak’a 6 şart koştu

Hükümetten basına sansür operasyonu

Bahçeli Yeni elebaşı Barzani

Eski DEP’liden densiz açıklama

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri -

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Taha Kıvanç Sezgilerim böyle diyor

Fehmi Koru Sulh-u salâh mı, o da ne?

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Türkiye Kuzey Irak'ta, bütün bölge tetikte…

Doğu Ergil The Kurdish imbroglio

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Neden gafil avlandık?

KÜRŞAT BUMİN Referandum: Sonuç iyi ama alışkanlık olmasın

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Sınır ötesi harekâtı konuşmadan evvel…

Son PKK terörünün, Türkiye dışındaki sebeplerine dair Hakkı Devrim

Ece TEMELKURAN
'Bir grup vatandaş'la konuşulsun!

Turkey and US bring up potential for joint action

Ertuğrul Özkök Hepimizin içinde bir celp

Ahmet Hakan Galeyan kardeşliği

M Ali Birand Bütün yükü askerin sırtına yıkmayalım

Cüneyt Ülsever Rejim değişti farkında mısınız?

Ege Cansen PKK sorununu çözecek mekanizma tasarımı

Enis Berberoğlu

AKŞAM sıcak bölgede
Muhabirlerimiz sıfır noktasından bildiriyor

Mehmet Barlas Sınırlı istihbaratla sınırsız spekülasyon yapılabilir…

Oktay Ekşi Önce aklıselim

Tufan Türenç Talabani ile Barzani’nin kronik kaypaklığı

Will a cross-border operation end terrorism? (2) by DR. DAVUT ŞAHİNER*

Will cross-border operation end terrorism? (1) by DR. DAVUT ŞAHİNER*

Mehmet Yılmaz Televizyonlar için ’sorumlu davranma’ zamanı

Yalçın Doğan Savaş tamtamları çalmak kolay

Meral TAMER Yaralı er ve yeniden yapılanan PKK

Nabi Yağcı Tezkerenin yanlış yorumuna dikkat

PKK’nın elebaşı artık Barzani

ALİ BULAÇ - Referandumun dili

İsmail Küçükkaya
Provokasyona karşı nasıl önlem alınır?

Nasuhi Güngör Bu ülkeyi Can Dündar bile bölemez

Eser Karakaş Köprü mü, terörü kınama mı?

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Erdoğan'a Ecevit izleri...

Benim önyargım!
Türker Alkan

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Bahçeli'den örgütüne sağduyu çağrısı

ERDAL ŞAFAK Kan ve petrol

ERGUN BABAHAN Terörün asıl tuzağı

EMRE AKÖZ Savaşın dumanı

Umur Talu Araç ile amaç

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Savaş... Son çare

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT Bir şehit cenazesi

Noyan Doğan Meclis ile PKK arasında sıkışan DTP, geç olmadan kararını vermeli

Mehmet Tezkan

Asker görevini yaptı, PKK’yı söktü attı.. Peki ya biz ne yaptık?

Can Ataklı

Kürt kentlerini ihya edeceğimize Güneydoğumuzu kalkındıralım!

Yusuf Kanlı Assessments

Sebahattin Önkibar Barzani'nin ortağı Başbakan'ın uçağında!

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
IMF gelince son zamlar netleşecek düzenlemeler takvime bağlanacak

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
'Türkiye kendini savunmak için her hakka sahip'

Servet Yıldırım Yatırımcıların gözü beş dengesizlikte

Ertuğ Yaşar Hepimiz Mehmetiz, hepimiz askeriz

Turkey sees increase in FDI, privatizations by 2009

SPK: Operasyon ihtimaliyle sermaye kaçmaz

Şimşek: IMF kredisine ihtiyaç yok

'Milli güvenlik için gerekli kaynağı tahsis ederiz, tabii sonucuna da katlanırız'

"2007 yılı faiz dışı fazla hedefi tutmayacak"

Merkez Bankası görev ve yetkileri Metin Ercan

Forecasting the next year of Turkey’s economy

ABD'nin krizi Uğur Gürses

Bütçenin hali Mustafa Aysan

Minister Şimşek says coffers are available for national security

Bankacılığımızın krizlerden sonra geldiği nokta OSMAN TUNABOYLU

Deniz Gökçe
Borsalarda zelzele olunca ne yapılıyor?

Hurşit GÜNEŞ
Aman petrol, canım petrol

İ.Hüseyin Yıldız
Son olaylar ve piyasalar

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Kâr kendilerine zarar herkese

Salih Neftçi Piyasalarda yeni bir yükseliş...

Borç En 'Yiğit' Başbakan Erdoğan

IMF faiz dışı fazla hedefini destekliyor

Editorial

Bush to Warn Cuba on Plan for Transition

H5 Washington Post Syrian Site Resembles Reactor Independent experts say images may be suspected nuclear facility that was bombed by Israel in Sept

Administration Diverges on Missile Defense Bush Pushes for System in Europe; Gates Urges 'Definitive Proof' of Iranian Threat

Maliki, Under Turkish Pressure, Vows to Curb Kurdish Rebels

A Villain To Our Rescue By Robert J. Samuelson, We need to be smarter about globalization -- and not simply parrot popular stereotypes.

Rashid: How to Paralyze Pakistan

Russia Deliberately Delaying the Arrival of Election Observers, Critics Say

Security Firms Face New Rules Contractors in Iraq will operate under closer supervision and with clearer accountability

Editorial Countries Buying Companies

The rise of sovereign wealth funds is nothing to fear -- if they operate out in the open.

The Eugenics Temptation By Michael Gerson,

What happens when certain scientific views lead to an erosion of the ideal of equality?

Anti-Terrorism on Trial Why the Government Loses Funding Cases Why the government loses terrorist funding cases

Wall Street Democrats vs. Main Street Democrats By Harold Meyerson

A Tough Tour of the Home Front

New Joint Chiefs Head Hears of Wars' Strains

Bush to Announce Steps to Pressure Cuba Toward Democracy

H6 Guardian At last, consensus in the Middle East: all agree these talks are bound to fail Jonathan Freedland: Pessimism on Annapolis is everywhere. The only hope is that the ailing players' desperation drives them to conjure up something

Violence in Gaza if talks collapse
Failure at Annapolis undermines Palestinian moderates, say analysts

Stuck in Iraq's labyrinth James Denselow While the west refuses to engage with the worsening humanitarian crisis of Iraq's refugees in Syria, their options are narrowing by the day.

US offers to delay missile shield plan

Russia says the proposal to switch the system on if an Iranian threat is proved are positive but fall short

America's war without end
Simon Tisdall: These days, terrorism seems to be whatever the Bush administration says it is.

Warning over army's stay in Iraq

Bush's plan to spend away the terror Planned US spending on the "global war on terror" is set to rise sharply in the coming year despite claims by President George Bush that al-Qaida is on the run in Iraq, says Simon Tisdall

Return of the Muslim other
Soumaya Ghannoushi: The far right is reviving the prejudices that used to dominate mainstream European politics

This broken promise is part of a wider fear of democracy
Simon Jenkins: By refusing to honour the pledge to hold a vote on EU reform, Brown is joining a collective flight from faith in popular will.

Mystery over $1bn of Iraq funding
Relationship between US and private contractors in Iraq is highlighted by investigation published into more than $1bn allocated for police training.

Russia snubs EU as foreign monitors at elections limited
Russia fails to invite international election observers to monitor the country's parliamentary elections in December.

Nuclear split emerges in Iran
A split over nuclear policy emerges after MPs and an adviser criticise the departure of its chief negotiator, Ali Larijani.

H7 From Mother Jones, a special issue on The Moral Dilemma of Leaving Iraq: Interviews with more than 50 experts, from General Petraeus' advisers to antiwar activists.

Fixing Iraq, without us: The key to the crisis in Iraq may lie Northern Ireland and South Africa.

Ask the Iraqis: Lawrence Wright on how the will of the people has been clear from the beginning.

Stagecraft, not statecraft Dennis Ross diagnoses Bush's failure in Iraq.

In Iraq Forever: Despite the Bush administration's party line, construction of permanent U.S. bases along with long-term plans for troop presence continue apace.

John Judis on Bush's neo- imperialist war: Our Iraqi occupation not only rejects American foreign policy since Wilson, it's a throwback to the great power imperialism that led to World War I.

From The American Interest: Barry Posen on foreign policy after George W. Bush: The case for restraint (and a response by Francis Fukuyama).

From TAC, Americans will vote for a new president, but the same Beltway apparatchiks will be guiding our foreign policy

How Intertwined are the Revolutionary Guards in Iran's Economy? AEI

Brookings Upgrading Authoritarianism in the Arab World

October 2007, Steven Heydemann, Saban Center Analysis Paper

Steven Heydemann says the “after twenty years, Arab regimes have become profi­cient at containing and disarming democracy pro­motion—if not exploiting it for their own purposes.” Read More

Washington Times Bowing to the Islamists (By Paul Belien)

12 Books in Search of a Policy: C. Johnson

Round one to Ahmadinejad
Gulf News - By Amir Taheri

The G20 After Eight Years: How Effective a Vehicle for Developing-Country Influence?

Reform of Global Governance: Priorities for Action

Washington Institute Pushback or Progress? Arab Regimes Respond to Democracy's Challenge by Barry Rubin

Controls Over Unliquidated Obligations in the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (PDF; 1.4 MB) Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

Interim Review of DynCorp International, LLC, Spending Under Its Contract for the Iraqi Police Training Program (PDF; 2.4 MB) Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

CFR Eliasson: Peacekeeping ‘Futile’ Without a Peace to Keep

H8 IraqSlogger Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq stratfor

Iranian Leader Cuts Short Official Visit to Armenia

Iraq's Ammar Al-Hakim Reassures Arab States About Proposed Federation

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Middle East Arabic Press for 23 Oct 07

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Iranian Press 23 October 07

South Korea to Extend Troop Stay in Iraq but Cut Presence By Half

BBC Monitoring Pan-Arab TV Headlines 23 Oct 07

Cleric Al-Sadr Urges Followers, Iraqi Forces to Avoid Killing

Iraqi Forces in "in Full Control of Basra" - Police Chief

Al-Jazeera TV Says Iraq's Al-Mahdi Army "Fully Controls" Basra

US reins in Iraq security firms

Washington clamps down on foreign private security firms in Iraq after deadly incidents involving civilians.

Ahmadinejad raising hackles (By Ali Akbar Dareini)

Daily Star America's policy in the Middle East ignores basic facts

Saudi Arabia: human rights, reform and the rule of law
By Muhammad Helmy

Asia Times Sanctions on Iran a prelude to conflict?
At the heart of the strategy of the United States and its allies to pressure Iran over its nuclear program is the application of a third, stronger round of sanctions. Yet sanctions significantly increase the likelihood of militarized conflict rather than preventing it. - Prerna Mankad

H9 Ha’aretz -

Barak set to approve list of sanctions against Gaza

Daily Alert.org – Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine

BBC Monitoring Quotes From Israel's Hebrew Press 23 Oct 07

Optimism for Mideast Summit

October 22, 2007, Martin S. Indyk, Newsweek

Call Annapolis off, it will only make things worse
By Yossi Alpher

H10 Christian Science Monitor In raid's wake, Syria turns defensive President Bashar al-Assad met with North Korean officials this week as Damascus hardens against the West after a September Israeli airstrike

ASIA

FT Editorial Conformity rules in communist China For an event of such significance to China’s 1.3bn people and to the world at large, the latest quinquennial Communist party congress was peculiarly lacking in drama

IHT Hu's steady march on power

By CHONG-PIN LIN President Hu Jintao of China has been consistently underestimated.

China Rising: Assessing China's Economic and Military Power
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The New China Hands
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US forced into 'Plan B' for Pakistan

The United States-brokered plan for a political union between Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf and former premier Benazir Bhutto appears to be in tatters following last week's massive bomb attack in Karachi. Washington now doubts that Bhutto can deliver. Out of the debris, though, a replacement figure looms: religious leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

H11 IHT Have you heard of the EU? By LORENZO FIORAMONTI AND SONIA LUCARELLI

The EU's problem is the absence of a clear social and political message.

Gates and Bush address missile defense Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday indicated to Russia that the United States might delay activating missile defense sites in Eastern Europe, even as President George W. Bush pleaded with Congress to fully finance the project.

EU 'blue card' seeks to attract highly skilled immigrants
By DAN BILEFSKY
EU officials said they hoped the proposal would divert the flow of skilled migrants who have been choosing the United States over Europe

New leader in Poland, Donald Tusk, looks to mend fences

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EU moves to bring in skilled foreign workers
EU attempts to attract migrant workers in an effort to compete for the brightest staff in hi-tech industries.

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The Lisbon Coup: After two years of paralysis, European Union leaders have finally agreed on reforming the organization, with a treaty that replaces the failed European Constitution.

Europe's new leaders are forging a different path to their predecessors, with some home-grown success. But divisions may prevent the EU from becoming a world power.

Europe breathes a collective sigh of relief as Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is decisively beaten by his opponent Donald Tusk.

An article on the great political divide at Europe’s heart.

Defenders of the nation: What is happening when the children of immigrants use their achieved social standing to reinforce Europe's narratives of national identity?

From Osteuropa, throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union, regimes have established themselves behind a democratic facade while concentrating power in the hands of a president. Contrary to their purported stability, all contain the seeds of their own downfall.

"Our negroes, our enemies": Serbian writer Vladimir Arsenijevic outlines the calamitous relationship of his compatriots to the Albanians

Missile diplomacy
Mark Mardell on Polish fears of Russia and faith in US might

Nato ministers face tough talks
Afghan burden-sharing and tension on Turkey's Iraq border are likely to dominate Nato talks in the Netherlands

Mediterranean summit planned
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy invites Mediterranean leaders to a summit aimed at forging closer ties.

Ticket to Europe
EU aims to attract skilled workers with rival to US green card

USIP Serbia's Persistent Challenges

H12 RFE/RL

Letter from Russia

Letter From Russia: A boom that depends on migrant workers
By CELESTINE BOHLEN / Bloomberg News
As Russia's surging economy lures more and more immigrants, who are willing to take jobs its own citizens can't or won't do, the country is confronting a problem more familiar in the West: integrating foreign workers who often face discrimination and harassment

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Rice Tells Russia Not to Use Energy as Weapon

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H13 The Times

Wall Street Journal The Dollar's Got Further to Slide
The Fed can handle inflation. But don't expect a cheap European vacation anytime soon.
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MERRILL'S THIRD-QUARTER WRITE-DOWN could total over $7 billion, reflecting risky mortgage bets and further pressuring CEO O'Neal.

Central Bankers Struggle With Good Times

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By ROBERT F. TURNER

German Reform Blues
Germany is adrift, once again.
By MARIAM LAU

The Emerging Emerging Market
The credit crunch has shaken the kaleidoscope of the world economy.
By ANDREW MITCHELL

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Rosy forecasts come with an economic health warning According to the IMF, the world is in the midst of a period of . While a happy outcome depends on sustained openness and monetary stability, this can no longer be ensured by developed countries alone. Emerging markets have become big players, writes Martin Wolf

Iraq fades as a hot political issue The sharp fall in the number of US troops killed over the past three months has brought about a corresponding reduction in the political temperature back home

US signals its intent on Iran missile shield George W. Bush said a missile defence system was urgently needed to protect the US and Europe from Iran, warning that Tehran could have the capability to strike the US and Europe with ballistic missiles within eight years

Pyongyang cements ties with Syria The speaker of North Korea’s parliament has concluded high-level talks in Damascus just weeks after allegations of nuclear co-operation between the two countries emerged

Rice orders crackdown on Iraq contractors Condoleezza Rice issued an order to bring private security contractors in Iraq under greater US government authority in an attempt to address the controversy over contractors such as Blackwater

COMMENT: A decision with the freedom of Europe at its heart VW was infringing article 56, says Frits Bolkestein

COMMENT: The pseudo-science hurting markets

Conformity rules in communist China For an event of such significance to China’s 1.3bn people and to the world at large, the latest quinquennial Communist party congress was peculiarly lacking in drama

WORLD NEWS: Tehran's new team stresses need for continuing dialogue

WORLD NEWS: Ahmadi-Nejad sees no need for nuclear programme talks

India ‘committed’ to Iran pipeline Senior Indian government ministers are showing fresh enthusiasm for building an oil and gas pipeline to Iran, in a move likely to add further tensions to US-India relations

WORLD NEWS: Israeli discord threatens to limit scope of peace talks

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: US's failure on Iran

WORLD NEWS: UN urges military to heed outcry and lift spending

The Microsofties Microsoft has finally gone cuddly. The software giant has brought an end to its battle with the European Commission and backed out of an anti-trust appeal in South Korea

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Air Force answers for loose nukes

An honest report follows up on the six nuclear missiles that mistakenly flew across the midwest.

Bush backs missile defense He says without the system, Europe would be vulnerable to Iranian weapons

'Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House,' by Valerie Plame Wilson

Iraqis weigh limits on U.S. military

H16 American Politics

Hillary: the GOP's dream

Jonah Goldberg: A campaign against Sen. Clinton may give Republicans their best shot at running as the party of change

Clinton, Giuliani Overshadow Field for 2008 Race, Poll Shows

Clinton vows review of Bush's executive power grab

'Absolutely' conceivable she would give up executive powers, Democratic frontrunner tells Guardian America.

California's age of megafires

Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for much bigger, hotter fires.

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Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

H17 Daily Telegraph Immigration fuels record population rise The UK's population is predicted to swell to 71 million by 2031 - the fastest growth rate since the post-war baby boom

Iran divided by nuclear policy struggle

Regime falls into public infighting after 183 MPs voice their support for the former national security chief as nuclear negotiator

H18 Independent Military planners doubtful of early Iraq withdrawal A British force of 2,500 troops may have to stay in Iraq for the foreseeable future and additional numbers could even be sent as reinforcements if the security situation deteriorates, a senior British commander has warned

Leading article: A terrible price in blood and treasure

Trillion-dollar war: Afghanistan and Iraq set to cost more than Vietnam and Korea

A portrait of Britain in 2031

Lessing angers America by saying September 11 'was not that terrible'

Hamas and Fatah both accused of torturing their opponents

The Big Question: What is transcendental meditation, and is it the cure for society's ills?

Leading article: Demographic trends that speak well of Britain

Hamish McRae: China holds the key to gyrating markets

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

From the H-Bomb to the Human Bomb: Modern terrorism seeks to combine the annihilating power of Hiroshima with the nihilistic gospel of Auschwitz

Bin Laden lambastes Iraqi insurgents

His latest audio missive reveals that US strategy may be working against Al Qaeda

War expenses keep soaring

The combined cost of Iraq and Afghanistan already surpasses the cost of the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War.

The spy comes in from the cold

Sidney Blumenthal: Valerie Plame Wilson has written a personal account of helplessly observing her career being shattered, as in an out-of-body experience.

Comparative Perspectives on the Detention of Terrorist Suspects
Source: Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (via SSRN)

Southern Thailand: The Problem with Paramilitaries,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group

Gen.: Bush ordered 'torture' tactics himself

H20 Slate

Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families
Source: The Future of Children (via MRDC)

The kind of conversations that happen at IR conferences

Even Arts & Letters Daily readers need to be able to talk intelligently about books they’ve – shhh! – never read... more»

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