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31 December 2007
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H1 Financial Times President Clinton, Google grows, $100 oil, but no US recession – this is 2008 The FT’s crack corps of pundits read the runes of politics, economics, business and world affairs for the year ahead

Los Angeles Times Who's really in charge in Iran? The Shiite clerics have lost power to combative elites composed of military leaders, businessmen and bureaucrats.

Washington Post U.S. Strives to Keep Footing In Tangled Pakistan Situation For the Bush administration, there is no Plan B for Pakistan.

Make-or-Break Time in Iraq? Jackson Diehl| What the U.S. decides about post-surge troop levels could prove decisive.

George Smiley's War Donald Gregg

| Countering terrorism is a job for the front-line intelligence officers of a revived CIA

My Friend Died. Her Country May Not Make It Either. By Peter W. Galbraith With Bhutto's death, there's no obvious hope on the horizon for Pakistan, a failed state with at least 70 nuclear weapons and no one clearly in charge.

TNI Après Bhutto: Part 3 by Anatol Lieven

Let's soft-partition Iraq Mitchell Zais, Military Journal

Tom Barnett Top 10 foreign policy wishes for 2008

Guardian Reaching a resolution

Daniel Serwer Future of Kosovo: Peace in the Balkans is within reach, to achieve it Kosovo must be granted independence and Bosnia must remain united

Sacrificing stability Raju GC Thomas Future of Kosovo: To allow Kosovo's independence would demonstrate that violent secessionism works, a precedent that must be avoided

Democracy: an existential threat? Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti A single state in historic Palestine, based on equality, is the most promising alternative to the already dead two-state dogma

NYT Iraq Attacks Fall 60 Percent, Petraeus Says Although violent attacks have fallen, Gen. David H. Petraeus cautioned that security gains were “tenuous” and “fragile,” requiring more political and economic progress.

New Questions Arise in Killing of Ex-Premier Indications that Benazir Bhutto’s doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death added to the pressure for an international inquiry. Medical Report (pdf)

Local Pakistani Militants Boost Qaeda Threat The Qaeda network accused by Pakistan’s government of killing Benazir Bhutto is increasingly made up not of foreign fighters but of homegrown militants.

How to Divine Foreign Policy of Candidates

The Office Pool, 2008 By WILLIAM SAFIRE

The Economist The future of futurology Think small, think short—and listen

Gen. Petraeus Sees Gradual Drawdown of Troops in 2008

Gen. Petraeus: Iraq Gains Are 'Reversable'

Official: 75% of al-Qaeda in Iraq's Network Destroyed

Bin Laden Issues Warning on Iraq, Israel

DEBKAfile Analysis: Bush presidency started with 9/11, winds down with al Qaeda’s most disastrous assault on the Western war on terror – the 27/12 murder of Benazir Bhutto

LGF Video: The Bhutto Shooting — The latest video of the assassination, from another angle, provides evidence that Benazir Bhutto was killed by an assassin's bullet. — (Video player requires Flash Player.)

The New Year office pool By WILLIAM SAFIRE Nostradamus himself couldn't score over 50 percent in the 34th annual New Year's office pool on predicting the future

CounterterrorismBlog 2007: A Global Assessment of the Confrontation Walid Phares

OSC: Urdu Press Roundup on Reaction to Benazir Bhutto Assassination

The Great Fall of China - Walter Russell Mead, Los Angeles Times

Book Rightsizing the State: The Politics of Moving Borders

Ha’aretz France to cut ties to Syria over Lebanon pres. crisis Sarkozy: No more contact with Damascus until we have proof Syria will let Lebanon choose president

Will the US Attack Iran? (Should It?) Adam Garfinkle

PBS Newshour U.S. Faces Pakistan Policy Dilemmas After Bhutto's Death

Book The Idea of Pakistan by Stephen P. Cohen, 2006 Excerpt

Pakistan: Multiple Approaches to Governance and Nation-Building.

Boston Globe The new, new things of 2007 Apple is the new NASA. Iran is the new Iraq. Beer is the new water, and water is the new oil. What's new in 2007. A guide for the perplexed. (By Drake Bennett)

Helena Cobban Bhutto, Saddam, Hariri: The travails of international criminal "justice"

US Military: No Place in Iraq Is Safe

BBC Trying times
Is it possible to turn around Afghanistan's unrest in 2008?

Interview With Josef Joffe of Die Zeit Newspaper

From the Carnegie Council, deflecting asteroids, eradicating polio, coordinating international time, mitigating climate change—Scott Barrett explains the different incentives and actors needed to supply these global public goods, where everyone benefits and none can be excluded.

The introduction to In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument by Bernard Williams

From New Left Review, Perry Anderson on a reckoning of global shifts in political and economic relations, oppositions, and theoretical visions that offer exits from the perpetual free-market present.

A look at how racial and religious minorities tend to be under-represented in legislatures around the world.

A review of Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke

Jerusalem Post 2008, when we need to start keeping our promises [ DAVID KIMCHE

Amotz Asa-El Thought of year: Is America declining?

The Region: The profession of death [ BARRY RUBIN

UN Reform: Progress, Prospects and Priorities Wilson Center

Qaeda target: Pakistan? Or us? MESH.

The Musharraf Problem: Full Text from WSJ

LA Times Turning a lens on Serbian nationalism The country's version of 'Big Brother' includes the odd Bosnian, Croat and Kosovo Serb. Probably unintentionally, it's forcing viewers to confront their social prejudices.

Far from case closed in Pakistan Bhutto's assassination and the government's version of events raise fears about the reach of militants and possible official complicity in the attack.

Iraq suicide attacks on the rise

Independent Tariq Ali: Pakistan deserves better than this feudal charade How can Western-backed politicians be taken seriously if they treat their party as a fiefdom, while courtiers abroad mouth sycophantic niceties concerning the young prince?

Johann Hari: Bush has been chasing the wrong nukes

Christian Science Monitor

Why the era of cheap food is over Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 – and will likely keep rising in 2008.

H2 Iraqi Kurds Question Alliance With US

Kurdish rebels in Iraq vow to carry out more attacks against Turkey if airstrikes continue - International Herald Tribune

Military Revew January-February 2008 Northern Ireland: A Balanced Approach to Amnesty, Reconciliation, and Reintegration Major John Clark, British Army The political, economic, and security dimensions of societal reconstruction are ineluctably symbiotic. A veteran of the Northern Ireland “troubles” analyzes how that conflict has been brought to the brink of resolution.

From the Archive NCAFP - DISARMING, DEMOBILIZING, AND REINTEGRATING THE KURDISTAN WORKER’S PARTY David L. Phillips PDF Version (repeat)

Ne mutlu Türkiyeliyim diyebilene! Guillaume Perrier

JINSA Fundamental Interests
December 29 - The United States should be ready to step in with multiparty diplomacy with the Turks, the Iraqi government and the Kurds, but only when the ground rules are understood - the PKK cannot be party to any talks and the talks will be for the purpose of figuring out how to close off support of the PKK and providing additional stability for the countries of the region. Read the analysis in JINSA Report #732. (read)

[Fbis] OSC: Turkish warplanes fly sorties over Iraqi Kurdistan border areas

Israeli UAVs For Turkey

Babacan, CNN ve Reuters’i uyardı

Türk savaş uçakları Kandil devriyesine çıktı

Kürt medyasına göre operasyon başarılı

The Turks Go After Kurdish Rebels ... And Kill 200 Sheep?

PKK bitirilinceye kadar ortak mücadele sürecek

Konumuz terörizm

RojTv Turkey: Kurdish Youths Burn Cars in Protest Against Army Operations

'Türk uçakları Kandil üzerinde'

Turkey Arrests Five For Al Qaeda Links: Report

Gül'ün ABD ziyareti 9 yıl sonra bir ilk

Turkey's Bombing of Iraq: A Case Study in Media Manipulation

Rusya’nın Hewlêr Konsolosluğu: FKB hükümetinin petrol anlaşmaları yasaldır

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Is secularism the last trump card of ethnic politics?by ALTAN TAN*

Bejan Matur Ailelerin gözü 'eve dönüş'te

Aysel Tuğluk “Radikal İki” de Kendine değil, katiline benzemiş. Yazık

Buyurun baylar ve bayanlar, birazda Tuğluk hanım’ın bol maydanozlu salatasından alınız!

Iraqi Kurdish Article Speculates on New Prime Ministerial Incumbent

Iraqi Kurd Parties Differ on Agreement With Sunni Party

KORAY DÜZGÖREN

Genelkurmay'dan 2007 yılı bomba ve mayın bilançosu

Genelkurmay Başkanlığı, NATO’ya sunduğu “PKK Raporu”

Kundaklama emri Kandil'den gelmiş

Terör örgütü PKK'nın yayın organından 'kundaklama' itirafı

Türk konvoyuna saldırı: 1 kişi öldü

PKK'dan kaçan 'canlı bomba' teslim oldu

Iraqi President's Party to Discuss Kurdistan Region PM Successor - Paper

Iraq northern oil allegedly travelling through Talabani-controlled KRG and into Iran

Iraq's Kurd Villagers See No Hope After Air Strikes

THE PROPAGANDA MODEL WORKS FOR KURDISTAN

Şamil Tayyar 30 yıllık sır

İHD, PKK'yla yapılan mücadeleyi protesto etti

Özcan Mutlu: DTP, Kürt meselesiyle ilgili tavrını belirlemeli

'Kürdistan' belgeli malzemelerin Irak'a geçişine gümrükte sıkı takip

PKK sızmalarına karşı operasyon

Mehmetçik, Küpeli Dağı'nda PKK avında

Operasyon Kato Dağı'na genişletildi

Northern Iraqi Women Increasingly Attempting Suicide

Iraqi Kurd Journalists Criticise Union Management's Re-Election - Paper

Kuzey Irak'ta yabancı işçilere köle muamelesi

Baydemir alkışlamadı

DTP, PKK'ya karşı tavrını belirlemeli

Çukurca'da uçak sesleri

Turancı aileden gelen liberal ilahiyatçı

"221'inci madde Öcalan'ı kapsamaz"

Iran-Turkey business ties over 8 billion dollars in 2007

Irak hükümetinden, kaçan her Kürt aileye 830 dolar

192 komando atandı

PKK'yı çözmek için 221 yeterli olmaz

PKK akıllansın ve silah bıraksın

Turkey's Problems Lie in Its Actions
OpEdNews

Wolves have better defenders than Kurds

Kerkük'te 13 sivil kaçırıldı

Said Yazıcıoğlu: Teröre sabrettik ve neticeyi aldık

AB'nin DTP'ye desteği terörle mesafesine bağlı

Hüsnü Mahalli Pakistan gerçekleri-1

Ömer Taşpınar What’s next for Pakistan

Ali H Aslan [WASHINGTON] Pakistan testi

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Beril Dedeoğlu] Birileri gelip 'demokratikleştirmeden'!

Relationship of ambiguity

[HABER İZLENİM] 'Bizi de Afganistan'a çevirmek istiyorlar'

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Government moves to put Turkey’s EU bid back on track

the Turkey branch of Open Society Institute released a book on how everyday lives of Turks will be affected by the EU process. Here is the full doc in Turkish.

Şahin Alpay ‘The European Union, Turkey, and Islam’

Komşunun kardak kaşıntısı!

AB, 'Alevi adımı'nı izliyor

Çipura dalaşı artık Rus ruletine dönüyor

Rusya-Türkiye: Kayıp yılın ardından Suat Taşpınar

Turkish Cypriots will be enthusiastic euro users

EUROSPHERE seeks to illuminate complexities of Europe’s public sphere

İspanya'da ETA yanlısı gösteriler yasaklandı

Reflections on the devolution in France Mustafa AKYOL

Turkey’s friend Slovenia to take over EU presidency

301’i at Sevr’i getir

Durmuş Hocaoğlu Lizbon Antlaşması ve Gerçek Bir "Avrupa Birliği" Binâ Etmenin Güçlükleri: IV

Atat Atun Cyprus’ history from 1960 to 1974 (4)

Kardak Adası’nda Yunanistan’ın zodyaklı tahriki

Kardak'taki tahrik Gümüşlük'e uzandı

Alevilerden Köln mitingi: ARD özür dilesin

Kadri GÜRSEL Alman TV'si neden hariçten gazel okudu?

A look back at the events which marked the last 12 months across ... Cyprus Mail

In north Cyprus, the Turkish lira is official currency, but euro is embraced - International Herald Tribune

Ministry says Greek jets intercepted eight Turkish planes over Rhodes
Kathimerini

KKTC lideri Talat'a Camlı Köşk ambargosu kalkıyor

The New Energy Order through the eye of Birol Gila BENMAYOR

Pipeline Dreams Blocked Gazeta.KZ, Kazakhstan

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

Are Immigrants More Mobile than Natives? Evidence from Germany IZA A 46-page discussion paper comparing the labour mobility of immigrants to Germany with that of natives

A review of The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians by Donald Bloxham.

Malatya'daki yayınevi cinayetinde esrarengiz bir mektup daha

Otobüste bile içilirdi, barda bile yasaklanıyor
Sigarayla mücadelede yeni aşamaya geçiliyor

Bala ve çevresinde 945 konut ağır hasarlı

Deniz Kuvvetleri uçağı düştü: 4 ölü

Kiracıya 2008 müjdesi: Enflasyon kadar artış

Hrant Dink cinayeti için Başbakanlık devrede

'Örtülü ödenek' gizli haber almaya

Kim bu ihbarcı ? Malatya katliamıyla ilgili savcılığa gelen bir mektup, "ABD'li misyonerler para verip Alman misyonerleri öldürttü" iddiasında bulundu. Zanlılar iddiaları reddetti. 'ABD-Alman misyonerlik savaşı' senaryosunu yazan ihbarcı aranıyor.

Aleviler AKP'nin iftarına katılanı 'düşkün' ilan edecek

Şimşek ‘güzel Türkçe’ dersi alıyor

Alanya'da rahip Arkan'a suikast hazırlığı iddiası

İstanbul real estate prices to hit the stratosphere, say experts

Yayınevi katliamına yeni soruşturma

İngilizcesi iyi, ya maddi durumu?

UNESCO İstanbul'u listeden çıkarabilir

Yılbaşı dinsel değil kültürel anlam taşır

Muhafazakarların geliri artınca yılbaşı kutlamaya başladı

'Yılbaşı hutbesi' tartışması sürüyor

Türkiye'nin deprem haritası güncelleniyor

Askerlik yapmayanlar da 'vatandaş' kalacak

Meclis'e torpil odası

ALİ BULAÇ - Bu gece ne yapmalı?

Serdar Turgut Bir Harold Pinter oyunu olarak Türkiye

Soner Yalçın Klasik Batı Müziği’ne tutkulu devlet adamı

Ilahiyatçılar ikiye bölündü

Erdoğan'a üst düzey koruma önlemleri...

Karadeniz'in tabanı geleceğin enerji kaynağı 'gaz hidrat'la dolu

Hava kuvvetlerine destek proje...

AK Parti, vekillerine dil eğitimi verecek

Rahibe suikast hazırlığı iddiası

Will a third bridge over the Bosporus help solve Istanbul's traffic plight? - Turkish Daily News Dec 30, 2007

KÜRŞAT BUMİN

30 Aralık 2007 Basın Özeti

31 Aralık 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 2008'de krizler ve umutlar yan yana

Erdoğan: Doğuda da batıda olan olmalı

ULUSA SESLENİŞ KONUŞMASI

Barzani Asil Türk milletiyle kardeşlik istiyoruz

Mehmet Metiner Kuzey Irak izlenimleri (1)

Semih İDİZ 2008'de Türk- ABD ilişkileri

Metehan Demir İşte 2008'de Türkiye'yi bekleyen kritik başlıklar

Anti-terror cooperation brings spring mood to Turkish-US ties at long last

What roles do security forces and intelligence have in the prevention of terrorism?by BEKİR ÇINAR*

Hasan CEMAL Eğlence arayanlar okumasın bu yazıyı!

Lagendijk’e göre 2007 Türkiye için bazı kötü ‘geri dönüşlerin’ yaşandığı bir yıl oldu ‘Bir cinayet, bir seçim ve bir provokasyon’

Is secularism the last trump card of ethnic politics?by ALTAN TAN*

Bejan Matur Ailelerin gözü 'eve dönüş'te

Reflections on the devolution in France Mustafa AKYOL

301’i at Sevr’i getir Erdoğan’ın, "Komisyon kuralım, arşivleri açalım" çağrısına yanıt için toplanan Ermenistan Meclis’si, uzlaşma bir yana, yeni ’talep’ler geldi. Türkiye’ye soykırım için 14.5 milyar dolar ’soykırım’ faturasının çıkarıldığı toplantıda, 301’inci maddenin kaldırılması ve sınırların Sevr anlaşmasıyla yeniden belirlenmesi istendi.

DTP'ye muhafazakâr rakip

Eyleme hazırlanan El Kaide'ye baskın

Yılın olayı neydi? İsmet Berkan

Emin Pazarcı PKK 5.000 militan kaybetti

Ömer Lütfi Mete PKK’yı ezmek destan mı? (I) -

Bakan Güler anlattı: Asıl operasyon enerji alanında Murat Yetkin

Fikret BİLA Arabaların yakılması ve MGK'nın çağrısı

AKP, Türkiye’nin emniyet kemeri!

Sosyolog Nur Vergin'e göre AKP halkın sisteme, siyasi elite, aydınlara, bürokrasiye öfkesini yumuşatıyor

Türkiye'ye nasıl bir sol gerekiyor?
H. Gökhan Özgün

Kardak'ta gerginliği tırmandıran tahrik

Harekattaki yayın hataları

Kundakçıların 13'ü üniversiteli

8 ilde 100 araç kundaklandı

Görüyor Kilitliyor Vuruyor Türk Hava Kuvvetleri’nin, Irak’ın kuzeyine yönelik operasyonlarda terör örgütü PKK’yı imha etmedeki en etkin gücü, "Lantirn" olarak adlandırılan gece görüş sistemine sahip F-16’ların attığı lazer güdümlü bombalar oldu.

Başbakan'a yayın durdurma hakkı

Cengiz Çandar

Müşerref’in rakibi kara kuvvetleri komutanı

SOLİ ÖZEL Hanedan sona ererken

[MONDAY TALK] Iranian expert says Iran and Turkey should design agency to regulate nuclear energy

İstanbul'da 15 gözaltı

Türkiye’nin ’silah lordu’ bu adam mı

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 PTT, ya da pijama, terlik, televizyon

Fehmi Koru Pakistan bize benzemez A last-minute democrat

Mümtazer Türköne 2007: Nehrin daraldığı yer

Yavuz Baydar A year of turbulence, fear, confrontation and hopes

Birlik ve beraberlik Murat Belge

Lanet yıl sona eriyor İsmet Berkan

Mustafa Akyol Laiklik bazen ‘dinsizlik’ de olabilir

Ferai Tınç Yüzleşme yılında formül 3 T

Nuh Yılmaz Türkiye zamanı iyi değerlendirmeli

Hilmi Yavuz Köylülük ve resmi ideoloji

Yeni yıla emeğin hakkıyla
Yıldırım Türker

Mahir Kaynak Terör ve arkası

Ertuğrul Özkök

Ahmet Hakan Mümtazer bana ’eyyamcı’ demiş 2008 için hayli kişisel planlar

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever Butto’yu kim öldürdü?

Ferai Tınç İslam ile asker arasındaki denge

İşte 2007'nin en önemli olayları

Mehmet Yılmaz Diyanet, yılbaşına neden karşı?

Fatih Çekirge Sağlam bir muhalefet arıyoruz

Tufan Türenç İktidarları eleştiriler değil yandaşların şak şakları yıkar

Enis Berberoğlu Bu yazı CHP’den umut kesenler için

Nasuhi Güngör CHP bölünecek mi?

Mustafa Erdoğan AKP için tehlike henüz geçmedi

Oktay Ekşi Biz kimi koruyoruz?

Mehmet Acet Başbakan'la programın özel bölümleri

İhsan Dağı A year to remember

Bülent Keneş What happened in Turkey and what did not in 2007? (2)

2007 leaves its mark on Turkey

Man of the Year: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Event of the Year: Presidential elections

GülayGöktürk Güzel bir yıl -

Özdemir İnce Doğu tipi despotizm

Andrew Finkel Hrant Dink

Ekrem Dumanlı Ne çetin sınavlarla geçti...

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Yolunu arayan parti

ERDAL ŞAFAK Bir yıl önce Pakistan ve bir ülke

ERGUN BABAHAN 2007'nin olayı

EMRE AKÖZ

Serdar Akinan
İnancın iğfali...

Umur Talu

Bazı görevler için son yıl Tarhan Erdem

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK Çankaya'daki dostlarım 2007'in son günü

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Siyasetin kritik yılı: 2007

CHP'nin muhalefet günleri ENGİN ÜNSAL

YAVUZ DONATYılbaşı bahane sohbet şahane

Sedat Sertoğlu
Clintonizm = Erdoğanizm

İsmail Küçükkaya
“Zarif ve rafine kişilikler yılı”

Osman ULAGAY Dani Rodrik'in sanayi politikası önerisi gündemde

Deniz Gökçe Dünya 2008 için ne düşünüyor?

Asaf Savaş Akat 2007’nin ardından (

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Ekonomi yönetiminde durum raporu
ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM2007 ekonomide 'sendeleme' yılı

Ercan Kumcu 2007’de Türkiye ekonomisinde yapılamayanlar Enflasyonda başarısız olundu büyüme sert frenle yavaşladı

Erdal Sağlam 2008 önemli risklerle geliyor

Türkler 28.2 milyar dolar borçlanacak

Milli sermaye elden gidiyor
Mahfi Eğilmez

Deniz Gökçe
Dolar nereye gider?

Salih Neftçi 2008 beklentileri

2007'de alınan ders ışığında 2008
Fatih Özatay

İbrahim Öztürk 2007 kayıp mı, kazanç mı?

2008 de kayıp bir yıl mı olacak?
Uğur Gürses

Hasan Ersel Hükümet kendi programına sadık kalmazsa 2008 kayıp bir yıl olur

Yiğit Bulut

2007 yılını da “sıcak paraya” hizmet ederek geçirdik...

Eser Karakaş Kamu yararı, Petkim ve Danıştay

Makroekonomik açıdan 2008 nasıl bir yıl olacak? Fatih Özatay

[Tevfik Bilgin] Kredi kartında tedbir almasaydık ABD'deki gibi kriz yaşardık

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ

Para arzı azaldı iş ve aş zorlaştı

[NEWS ANALYSIS] Slowing economy calls Ankara to action

Energy rising as Turkey’s investment star

Enerjiye 130 milyar dolar yatırım

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU
Oyak'ın 2.7 milyar $'ı için kapıştılar

H4 New York Times New Questions Arise in Killing of Ex-Premier Indications that Benazir Bhutto’s doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death added to the pressure for an international inquiry. Medical Report (pdf)

Iraq Attacks Fall 60 Percent, Petraeus Says Although violent attacks have fallen, Gen. David H. Petraeus cautioned that security gains were “tenuous” and “fragile,” requiring more political and economic progress.

Local Pakistani Militants Boost Qaeda Threat The Qaeda network accused by Pakistan’s government of killing Benazir Bhutto is increasingly made up not of foreign fighters but of homegrown militants.

How to Divine Foreign Policy of Candidates

Editorial About That Peace Process Next week President Bush will make his first trip since taking office to Israel and the Palestinian territories. He should use this visit to get real work started.

The Office Pool, 2008 By WILLIAM SAFIRE This is the 34th annual office pool in this space, a New Year’s tradition that has become the most excruciating multiple-choice prediction test in world media.

Opposition Parties Vow to Proceed With Jan. 8 Election Pakistan’s largest political party picked Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son to succeed her as chairman and vowed to forge ahead with elections next week.

Israeli Army, a National Melting Pot, Faces New Challenges in Training Officers

ROGER COHEN On America’s Watch The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has given the coup de grâce to the botched American attempt to manage a nuclear-armed Islamic state.

The Year in Questions 2007: Answer Key Here are the answers to the year-end quiz featured on Sunday.
Editorial Looking at America We hope that American voters will have the wisdom to grant the powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity and principle to use them honorably.

How Bhutto Won Washington By ELISABETH BUMILLER In the end, Benazir Bhutto’s American connections only underscored how little the United States fathomed the feudal politics of South Asia.

How a ‘Wisp of a Girl’ Conquered Pakistan By MOHAMMED HANIFWith half her adult life spent either in exile or in prison, Benazir Bhutto might have lived like a medieval princess, but she died like an ordinary, modern Pakistani

Editorial The Poles Get Cold Feet

Poland’s new government is right to be taking a skeptical second look at the Bush administration’s proposal to station 10 interceptor missiles there as part of a European-based missile-defense system.

Tapes by C.I.A. Lived and Died to Save Image Decisions about interrogation videotapes were prompted by fear about what the public might think, officials say

The Free Market: A False Idol After All? As the world gets complicated, regulation finds some new fans from an unlikely quarter.

MAUREEN DOWD

Am I a Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon?

New Year’s resolutions require too much discipline. An exorcism seems much easier.

PAUL KRUGMAN The Great Divide The leading Republican presidential contenders have gone out of their way to assure voters that they will not deviate from the Bush path. Why?

H5 Washington Post U.S. Strives to Keep Footing In Tangled Pakistan Situation For the Bush administration, there is no Plan B for Pakistan.

Make-or-Break Time in Iraq? Jackson Diehl| What the U.S. decides about post-surge troop levels could prove decisive.

George Smiley's War Donald Gregg

| Countering terrorism is a job for the front-line intelligence officers of a revived CIA.

Bhutto's Concern Ignored Robert D. Novak| Is American ambivalence to blame for her murder?

My Friend Died. Her Country May Not Make It Either. By Peter W. Galbraith With Bhutto's death, there's no obvious hope on the horizon for Pakistan, a failed state with at least 70 nuclear weapons and no one clearly in charge.

Another Political Whodunit For Pakistan's Lengthy List

Who will rule Potomac Man? By Dana Milbank Who will, for the next four years, rule the barbaric tribes that live along the Potomac? For the barbaric inhabitants of Potomac Land, backing the winner is about tribal survival.

Pakistan Considers Delaying Elections As discord over the killing of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto spreads, nationwide rioting leaves many fearful to leave their homes

A Global FervorBy Jim Hoagland, Religion has again become, for better and for worse, a driving force in world affairs.

Iraq Safer but Still Perilous At Year-End, Petraeus Says

He Could Care Less About Obama's Story By Reza Aslan American can't rebrand its image problems away in the Middle East. It'll take more than skin color and a dream to repair America's image in the Middle East.

Bhutto's Son Chosen As Eventual Party Chief Selections mean that the Pakistan People's Party, which casts itself as the voice of democracy, will stay in family hands for a third generation

Editorial

What Presidents Must Know By David S. Broder Americans are choosing a president for a dangerous time.

Pakistan at Standstill as Discord and Unrest Grow Election Delay Considered In Wake of Bhutto's Killing

Bhutto's Son, Husband Named to Lead Her Party: Opposition Parties Announce They Will Participate in Election; Date for Vote Still Uncertain

Pentagon Releases 10 Saudi Detainees

Prisoners Held at Guantanamo Bay Are Returned Home

Echoes of 1968 By Joel Achenbach

A familiar mix of passion and pain drove America 40 years ago. What does 2008 have in store?

Misreading Obama's Identity By George F. Will, America's foremost black intellectual has published a slender book about the most interesting presidential candidacy since 1980. It is flawed.

A Chance to Defend Themselves

By Thomas B. Wilner There is and can be no acceptable legal excuse or explanation for denying Guantanamo detainees a fair hearing.

Warning of Threats, Clinton Sells Clinton Ex-President Emphasizes Wife's Experience

Alleged Taliban Member Detained in Guantanamo Bay Dies of Cancer

H6 Guardian New Bin Laden tape warns Sunnis against US Osama bin Laden directs fury of al-Qaida against Sunni Arab leaders in Iraq who have turned against insurgents

Pakistan may not make it
Peter Galbraith: The country's future now depends on a power struggle between the army and Bhutto's son

'Democracy is best revenge'
Benazir Bhutto's son Bilawal appointed leader of her party
The unlikely lad
'His elevation will turn off voters'

Reaching a resolution

Daniel Serwer Dec 29 07, 11:00am: Future of Kosovo: Peace in the Balkans is within reach, to achieve it Kosovo must be granted independence and Bosnia must remain united

Sacrificing stability

Raju GC Thomas Dec 29 07, 12:00pm: Future of Kosovo: To allow Kosovo's independence would demonstrate that violent secessionism works, a precedent that must be avoided

Democracy: an existential threat?

Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti A single state in historic Palestine, based on equality, is the most promising alternative to the already dead two-state dogma

Going off script Andrew Stroehlein Mikheil Saakashvili will use Georgia's January elections to showcase a country that's 'back on track', international press mustn't take the bait

Who killed Benazir? MAU Bhutto's assassination is Pakistan's JFK moment, and speculation about who was responsible for it will not end in our lifetimes

Halfhearted finger wags
Peter Preston: The cheerleaders of democracy have one anthem for Musharraf and another for Putin

The Observer Pakistan's flawed and feudal princess It's wrong for the West simply to mourn Benazir Bhutto as a martyred democrat, says acclaimed south Asia expert William Dalrymple. Her legacy is far murkier and more complex

Only real understanding can cure Pakistan's problems Kamila Shamsie: I find myself replaying chronology over and over, reflecting that both I, and the Pakistan that exists today, grew up with Benazir Bhutto, political figure

Leader Our challenge is to restore faith in the power of global liberty
Al-Qaeda and George W Bush agree on at least one thing: Benazir Bhutto was vital to Pakistan's transition from military to civilian rule

Brown warns UK of bleak year
PM issues bleak assessment of world economy, bracing UK for a year of belt tightening

Fury at claims on Bhutto killing
The hunt for the killers of Benazir Bhutto became mired in bitter controversy yesterday over a dispute between her supporters and political opponents about how she met her death

H7 A face in the crowd: Benazir Bhutto's assassin...

Benazir Bhutto Medical Report (pdf)

Stratfor Pakistan: The Post-Bhutto PPP

Pakistan to rule on election date

Pakistan will decide whether to hold elections on 8 January, despite Benazir Bhutto's death.

Profile: Bilawal Bhutto

Pakistan in a vortex

Pakistan is one of the world's eight nuclear powers and the first to be categorized as a failing state. Not failed yet, but on its way, and the world's major powers are powerless to correct the downward spiral.

Le Monde Le Pakistan, crise multiforme, par Frédéric Bobin

Pakistan needs a national unity government By Arif Rafiq

Pakistan: Into the UnknownLondon Times editorial


Grieving for Benazir – Bernard-Henri Levy, Wall Street Journal

Bush's Best-laid Plans - Andrew Bacevich, Los Angeles Times

Pakistan's Blood-stained Democracy - William Buckley, Real Clear Politics

Demagoging Pakistan's crisis

The identifiable geostrategic consequences of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination are a weakening of President Pervez Musharraf's government and an increase in political volatility which this nuclear-armed nation can scarcely afford.

Why Mrs. Bhutto had to die (By Walid Phares)

Bhutto's Destiny - Benazir Bhutto, New York Post

Was Bhutto's undoing US-led?

Ha’aretz Democracy will have to wait Is it possible now for someone to rise up and make a serious call, for example, for Pakistan's democratization after Bhutto's assassination?

Pakistan May Not Make It – Peter Galbraith, Washington Post

Pakistan Won't See the Danger - Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer

Unfortunate Allies - Lisa Schiffren, National Review

How a ‘Wisp of a Girl’ Conquered Pakistan – Mohammed Hanif, New York Times

Pakistan an al-Qaeda Target Now - Trudy Rubin, Miami Herald

Daily Star Musarraf might need to mend fences in order to hold Pakistan together

Assassin Killed West’s Foreign Policy Too – Michael Portillo, London Times

Climax of a Grim Year in Pakistan – Claude Salhani, Washington Times

Saving Pakistan From Itself - Adil Najam, New York Daily News

Who Killed Benazir?

Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy (PDF; 584 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)


Democracy Delusion in Pakistan - Michael Goodwin, NY Daily News

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

Gen. Petraeus Sees Gradual Drawdown of Troops in 2008

Petraeus Letter to the Troops

Despite Success, Iraq's Future Uncertain

Awakening Council Calls on bin Laden to Stop 'Targeting Iraqis'

Key al-Qaeda Leader Arrested in Kirkuk

Iran gives early date for reactor

Iran says its Bushehr nuclear plant will start work in the summer - earlier than its Russian builders had said.

US Prepares Another 'Large-Scale' Offensive in Iraq

Iran says its first atom plant to start in mid-2008...

2007 Worst Year Yet in Iraq

Iraq's Anti-al-Qaeda Sunni Militias

Iraq Suicide Attacks Again on Rise

'Fatigued' Iraq PM Heads to London for Check-Up

France to halt links with Syria France to suspend diplomatic contacts with Syria until progress is made on choosing a new Lebanese president.

BBC Monitoring Headlines, Quotes From Iraqi Press 30 Dec 07 - Package B

BBC Monitoring Headlines, Quotes From Iraqi Press 30 Dec 07

Jordan, Syria sign trade agreements to boost ties

Iraqi Sunnis honor Saddam

Syria Requires Arabization of Names

Al Hayat A Call for a "Coup d'Etat" Hassan Haydar - There are usually many motives behind the military coups d’etat that third world countries witness, including the Middle East. This is even though the Arabs who belong to this world and to an underdeveloped one have fled from this kind of “policy” a while ago. Some are triggered by military men’s belief that rulers are corrupt and there is no way to fix, reform and restore their regime except through armed force

The Lebanese void and sectarian polarization Walid Choucair - Lebanon’s crisis is heading toward limbo with concerned politicians seeing no light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, they seem to be in a contest over not having the ability to see any hope to move beyond the presidential impasse to the point that one of the well-connected religious figures stated that he does not know how the crisis could possibly end, and “I have not found anyone who knows.”

Jordanians rally to remember Saddam

Sunni Report: Iraqi Police Arrest 250 Non-Militants in Sectarian-Driven Raid

CRS "Egypt: Background and U.S. Relations," updated December 12, 2007.

Dubai's model is working, but some bumps lie ahead
By Christopher Davidson

[Fbis] OSC: Al-Asad Says Syria 'Looks Forward to Every Action That Can Lead to True Peace'

Senator Sees 'Real Opportunity' for Resuming Syria-Israel Talks

H9 Ha’aretz France to cut ties to Syria over Lebanon pres. crisis Sarkozy: No more contact with Damascus until we have proof Syria will let Lebanon choose president

Bin Laden vows in audiotape to 'expand jihad in Palestine'

Iranian envoy offers Egypt cooperation on nuclear program

U.S. Senator says Syria's Assad is ready for peace with Israel

The battles of the future

Pinpointed IAF attacks in Gaza more precise, hurt fewer civilians

Lebanon policy / France's lost honor

As foreign policy becomes more dominant in the campaign, Israel will draw closer to its center

"Let us hope the peace process will be failure" (WTR)

Study: Number of Palestinians killed by IDF dropped 43% in '07

NYT Israeli Army, a National Melting Pot, Faces New Challenges in Training Officers

Jerusalem Post 2008, when we need to start keeping our promises

[ DAVID KIMCHE

Israel in 2007 has 7.2 million residents 75% of population are Jews; 18,000 olim arrived, less than in recent years; 150,000 babies born.

Amotz Asa-El

Thought of year: Is America declining?

The Region: The profession of death

[ BARRY RUBIN

'Assad ready for peace with Israel'

Senator: Meeting with Syrian president "productive;" says US can bridge gap between countries

Aksa Martyrs Brigades calls for Fayad's assassination

Israel wants US and EU to snub Durban II

Parley looks set to repeat displays of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism that dominated 2001 event

Yedioth Ahronoth France to boycott Syria
Sarkozy says following talks with Mubarak 'we'll have no more contact with Damascus until it proves willingness to let Lebanon hold free presidential elections'; calls on Israel to help Palestinians establish 'democratic state'

'Take al-Qaeda seriously'

'They've struck all over the world, they can easily target us,' warns Defense Committee chairman

‘Peaceful borders’ dangerous

So-called peaceful borders in fact constitute grave threat to our future, Guy Bechor says

'Less Palestinians killed'
B'Tselem records significant drop in number of Palestinians killed by IDF fire in 2007, but warns 131 out of 373 killed were civilians. Number of checkpoints in West Bank hasn't lessened despite Israel's promises, report says

Daily Alert.orgMiddle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review Google News Israel - Palestine

Peace Talks Skirt Housing Issue - Boston Herald editorial


Palestinians: Good Money After Bad - Shmuel Rosner, New York Post

Pelosi and Syria – James Zumwalt, Washington Times

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Why the era of cheap food is over Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 – and will likely keep rising in 2008.

Opinion: America: Step up on climate changeGlobal warming is the nuclear issue of our age. By Helena Cobban

Opinion: The US could lose top talentUnlike the US, the EU seems to be welcoming foreign professionals

Brazil's oil 'blessing' is no energy panacea

Bhutto's son and husband to lead party

Benazir Bhutto's 'political will' named her son as party leader.

Iffy 2008 outlook for Wall Street

A slowing economy may be a drag on corporate profits, some analysts say.

Brazil's oil 'blessing' is no energy panacea

State-owned oil firm Petrobras found some 8 billion barrels of oil, but it's buried deep in the ocean.

ASIA

The Great Fall of China - Walter Russell Mead, Los Angeles Times

China Will Make Hong Kong Wait to Elect Leader China said that Hong Kong would have to wait at least another decade for democratic elections to select its leader.

An article on Japan’s future as an international, multicultural society: From migrants to immigrants.

From Foreign Affairs, John L. Thornton (Tsinghua): Long Time Coming: The Prospects for Democracy in China; and G. John Ikenberry (Princeton): The Rise of China and the Future of the West: Can the Liberal System Survive? The rise of a fierce yet fragile superpower: The much-heralded advent of China as a global power is no longer a forecast but a reality — now we, and they, must manage its triumph. (repeat)

Thai generals in fear after tycoon’s victory

CRS "China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues," updated December 13, 2007.

Where Censorship Is Part of the Curriculum

Journalism students in China learn not only the skills of the profession, but how to stay on the straight and narrow path of Marxism.

H11 IHT Roger Cohen: Bhutto's death on America's watch By ROGER COHEN

Only Pakistani democracy can avenge, in part, the disappearance of the rare bridge Benezir Bhutto offered and offset the American mistakes that led to this loss.

Obscurity and confinement for asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants in EuropeThousands are being held for long periods in a network of detention camps that has taken form with little scrutiny and few norms.

Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia, is seen likely winning a new term

EUROPE European press review

2007 Balkan Year in Review: Key Underreported Trends for the Future
Balkanalysis.com

Poles Get Cold Feet on Missile DefenseNew York Times editorial

Ronan McCrea (EUI): Limitations on Religion in a Liberal Democratic Polity: Christianity and Islam in the Public Order of the European Union.

From New Left Review, here are dispatches from France during Sarkozy’s first hundred days

The first chapter from From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe by Nina Bandelj.

Are Immigrants More Mobile than Natives? Evidence from Germany IZA A 46-page discussion paper comparing the labour mobility of immigrants to Germany with that of natives

Germany's Immigration Debate: State Governor Wants Crackdown on 'Criminal Young Foreigners'

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

So Who, Exactly, Voted for Putin? – Tom Keane, Boston Globe

'Kremlin Turf War' Moves Into Russian Court

Election Test for Georgian Democracy

H13 The Times

Torch passed from mother to son Pakistan’s political rivals call for elections as the son of Benazir Bhutto takes over her Pakistan People’s Party

Sunday Times Leader Into the unknown Pakistan’s future stability is, to a large extent, an important factor in our own future stability

This is showtime, folks, let's pick a president

On Thursday Iowa kicks off the 2008 US election battle, and the candidates are desperate to make an early impact

America's choice: hope or fear

The chaotic, colourful, cathartic American primary campaign has come down to a clarifying choice

Andrew Sullivan

Taliban fight needs 3,000 extra troopsMilitary commanders need more troops in Afghanistan to contain the Taliban, according to senior defence sources

Envoys' expulsion Rory Stewart: no one knew Afghanistan's needs better

2007: The world in focus

Twelve vivid months: we remember a year of tragedy and hope

That assassin’s killed the West’s foreign policy Bhutto was brave to campaign every day, knowing that any moment could be her last

Michael Portillo

Bhutto's son appointed chairman of party

Wall Street Journal 2007: The Year In …The subprime crisis and wobbly home market. Tight presidential primary races and the Virginia Tech shootings. More violence in Iraq and an assassination in Pakistan. Recap the year and look ahead, with our rundown on highlights from the year in photos, video, advertising, technology and more.

Violence Threatens Musharraf's Rule As Bhutto's body was laid to rest, violence and looting broke out across Pakistan. How Musharraf handles Pakistan's worst unrest in decades may determine whether he keeps his job -- and whether the turmoil flares into a bigger crisis

Probe: Skull Fracture Killed Bhutto?

Grieving for Benazir
Where is the outrage among the world's democratic leaders?
By BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

H14 Financial Times President Clinton, Google grows, $100 oil, but no US recession – this is 2008 The FT’s crack corps of pundits read the runes of politics, economics, business and world affairs for the year ahead

France returns to EU centre stage France’s six-month EU presidency does not begin until July 1. But already the bloc’s other 26 member states are anticipating France’s occupation of the hot seat with uncommon excitement

Taliban military chiefs split

BACK PAGE - FIRST SECTION: Events that defined 2007

Leader US fires election starter’s pistol Electoral history suggests that the faster a party can settle on its candidate and unite against the opposition, the better its chances in the general election

Putting a price on global warming When talks begin on a successor to the Kyoto protocol, world leaders should aim to create a functioning market that puts a price on carbon

Israel rejects easing of West Bank curbs No changes on restrictions for Palestinians unless their leadership moves more forcefully against armed groups threatening violence against Israelis, says Ehud Olmert

WORLD NEWS: Alarm at Gazprom's Serbia move

Spotlight: Mikheil Saakashvili - Rose reformer tries fightback

WORLD NEWS: China delays elections in Hong Kong

H15 Los Angeles Times Who's really in charge in Iran? The Shiite clerics have lost power to combative elites composed of military leaders, businessmen and bureaucrats.

Iraq suicide attacks on the rise

Editorial

The Great Fall of China - Walter Russell Mead, Los Angeles Times

Turning a lens on Serbian nationalism The country's version of 'Big Brother' includes the odd Bosnian, Croat and Kosovo Serb. Probably unintentionally, it's forcing viewers to confront their social prejudices.

Far from case closed in Pakistan Bhutto's assassination and the government's version of events raise fears about the reach of militants and possible official complicity in the attack.

Slain leader's husband, teen son to head party Meanwhile, in the wake of Bhutto's assassination, Pakistani presidential elections set for Jan. 8 may be delayed

H16 American Politics

NYT How to Divine Foreign Policy of Candidates

He Could Care Less About Obama's Story - Reza Aslan, Washington Pos

McCain vs. Obama in N.H. Go figure: Independent voters' tilt toward an Illinois Democrat could hurt an Arizona Republican

Bruce Anderson: My prediction in the race for the White House... Romney will beat Clinton to the presidency

Can't Buy Me Populism

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E. J. Dionne Jr.

| How being part of the moneyed elite is political-kryptonite in Iowa.

Be Reasonable Peggy Noonan is in search of a Reasonal Person for President. By PEGGY NOONAN

Obama Transcends Race - George Will, Washington Post


Bhutto and the Candidates - David Remnick, The New Yorker

A Ron Paul Surprise in New Hampshire? - Andrew Cline, Wall St. Journa

Edwards surges, Huckabee's bubble bursts

Boots on the ground will settle first battle

The big advantage John Edwards has over his better-funded Democrat rivals is his network of battle-hardened activists

Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid First, Main Candidates Urged To Plan 'Unity' Government

Shake, Rattle and Roil the Grand Ol’ Coalition No one knows whether Mike Huckabee’s approach to the Republican presidential primary will succeed much beyond Iowa.

America's Choice Between Hope and Fear - Andrew Sullivan, Sunday Times

Cash-strapped consumers

The ease of borrowing has made it possible for many people to live beyond their means. But the end of easy money is now exposing Americans' vulnerability.

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Bill Clinton barred from NSC meetings in a Hillary White House...

H17 Daily Telegraph Bhutto's son given key role in party

Benazir Bhutto's teenage son has vowed to use the ballot box to take revenge for her death after succeeding his murdered mother as the head of her party.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari | Asif Zardari

Elections to go ahead in nine days

West starts to question Musharraf's role

The will to rule It seems extraordinary for a modern political party's future to be decided by the last wishes of its dead leader, but that is what has happened in Pakistan.

General Petraeus: man with a message of hope

Sunday Telegraph A Face in the Crowd: Benazir Bhutto's Assassin

Pakistan's politics to be played out in UK The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, likes to say that "over there is now here". There could be no more vivid illustration of this principle than the fate of Pakistan in 2008, writes Matthew d'Ancona.

Building proper peace in Afghanistan Liam Fox on why we must work quickly to give ordinary Afghans a real stake in their country - and deny the Taliban the breeding ground for its support.

In office, Benazir Bhutto did little

Although there is scant to show for Miss Bhutto's two terms as Pakistan's premier, says Jemima Khan, her death may yet bring Pervez Musharraf down

H18 Independent Tariq Ali: Pakistan deserves better than this feudal charade How can Western-backed politicians be taken seriously if they treat their party as a fiefdom, while courtiers abroad mouth sycophantic niceties concerning the young prince?

Johann Hari: Bush has been chasing the wrong nukes

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Born to rule - and not just in Pakistan

Leaving the White House: 386 days to go (and counting)

France breaks off talks with Syria

Independent on Sunday Farzana Shaikh: Musharraf can save his country - by resigning

Raymond Whitaker: As it mourns its lost leader, Pakistan is in the eye of the storm

Rupert Cornwell: On the battle for America

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Al Qaeda: Propaganda and Media Strategy - Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University (Volume 2007-2) LINK

Rand A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Analyzing Global Risk and Security

Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) Between the Department of Defense and the Department of State on USG Private Security Contractors (PDF; 640 KB)
Source: U.S. Department of Defense

"Map Reading and Land Navigation," Field Manual FM 3-25.26, January 2005 (change 1, August 30, 2006) (288 pages, 25 MB PDF file).

"Political and Budgetary Oversight of the Ukrainian Intelligence Community: Processes, Problems and Prospects for Reform" by Oleksii Petrov, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007.

CRS "China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues," updated December 13, 2007.

"Deemed Exports" and the Stirrings of a New Security Policy

Northern Ireland: A Balanced Approach to Amnesty, Reconciliation, and Reintegration Major John Clark, British Army The political, economic, and security dimensions of societal reconstruction are ineluctably symbiotic. A veteran of the Northern Ireland “troubles” analyzes how that conflict has been brought to the brink of resolution.

Beyond Guns and Steel: Reviving the Nonmilitary Instruments of American Power Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates

Waterboarding: A Clarification - Mark Bowden, Philadelphia Inquirer

Has al-Qaeda Adopted a New Terror Tactic?

'An Ordinary Spy' By JOSEPH WEISBERG Reviewed by MARK COSTELLO The C.I.A. agent in Joseph Weisberg’s novel is a conventional yuppie schlub.

First Chapters ‘An Ordinary Spy’

H20 Slate

Foreign Students in the United States: Policies and Legislation (PDF; 171 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists)

A review of Interpretation and Revision of International Boundary Decisions by Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad.

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Source: Institute for the Study of Labor

From Business Week, pundits are eager to provide their predictions for the new year — here's something a little different: Ten Things That Won't Happen in 2008.

Paul Kennedy reviews The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 by Piers Brendon (and more and more).

A question of blame: Who or what is to blame when a once-powerful society collapses?

Climate security as the new determinism: A fashionable variant on an old and discreditable idea is in danger of inviting the militarisation of global responses to climate change.

A review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin.

From The Economist, a big deal: Poker is getting younger, cleverer, duller and much, much richer

opening the big tent: Alain de Botton on being denounced as a vulgarian

From Le Monde diplomatique, Scheherazade in the White House: How George Bush’s wartime administration used a magician, Hollywood designers and Karl Rove telling 1,001 stories to sell the invasion of Iraq.

The Year in Review 2007 Source: World Bank

The Liberal Skew in Higher Education--Posner

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

H21 Boston Globe The new, new things of 2007 Apple is the new NASA. Iran is the new Iraq. Beer is the new water, and water is the new oil. What's new in 2007. A guide for the perplexed. (By Drake Bennett)

Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases Source: Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming (via SSRN)

Web 2.0 is an echo chamber. No debate, no conversation – they’re bloggers just listening to themselves... more»

An article on the truth about lying: Our lives are filled with untruths — but why do we lie, and how can we tell when others are full of it?

The appeal of the underdog: Research is published on the scope of people’s support for those who are expected to lose, seeking to understand why people are drawn to the Rocky Balboas and the Davids (versus Goliaths) of the world.

The distinction between "different" and "uncool": A new study reveals an important distinction between non-membership in a group and groups with which we want to avoid association — and also highlights the mitigating effect of social pressure.

Okay, people die all the time. But 2007 was a year in which a certain type of person died: Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jean Baudrillard... more»

Covering the world: International journalism has the power the change the way readers see the world

Notable Deaths of 2007 The Times remembers some of the most notable figures who passed from the scene in 2007

Global guide to tipping

Independent The best books of 2007

We're English, eccentric and proud of it The sad death of the Daily Telegraph's obituaries editor made it clear to Geoffrey Wheatcroft that our oddities are part of English national life.

Can't you all just get along?

There's plenty of experts outlining how to raise Your Baby. If only they could agree. (By Tom Scocca)

'Modernism' By PETER GAY Reviewed by LEE SIEGEL

A cultural historian tries to make sense of modernism.

Colleges Expand Web Courses

With better, faster technology, online classes become more ambitious and more accessible

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Türkiye Beşar’a Ne Demeli? Suriye'de “52 Cuma” Reformsuz Geçmez 20 Nisan 2011
Amerika-Sonrası Dünyanın Provası Olarak Libya Krizi ve Türkiye 22 Mart 2011
“Demokratikleştiremediklerimizden misiniz?”: Orta Doğu’daki Değişim Dalgasının Neden, Şekil ve Olası Sonuçları 10 Şubat 2011
Analiz Üzerine Notlar 14 Ocak 2011
Wikileaks Üzerine Notlar ve Yorumlar 23 Aralık 2010
Enerji ve Güvenliği Üzerine Notlar 29 Kasım 2010
Amerikan Travması ve Kongre Seçimleri 23 Kasım 2010
Füze Savunması Üzerine 20 Soru ve 5 Seçenek 20 Ekim 2010
Obama Ekibinde Yaprak Dökümü - Beyaz Saray’dan Kaçış mı? 12 Ekim 2010
"Kürt Devleti" Üzerine Notlar ve Çeşitlemeler 23 Eylül 2010
Mullen’ın Ankara Ziyareti 7 Eylül 2010
ABD’nin Afganistan’daki Seçenekleri 24 Ağustos 2010
Financial Times Haberinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Düşündürttükleri 18 Ağustos 2010
İsrail-ABD-İran-Türkiye Dörtgeni 26 Temmuz 2010
Bay Netanyahu Washington’a Gitti: Böyle mi Olacaktı, Obama? 16 Temmuz 2010
Stratejik Dehlizlerde Derinlik Sarhoşluğu: Bir AKP Dış Politikası Eleştirisi Temmuz 2010
Rus Casusluk Olayı: "John Le Carre mi, Austin Powers mı?" 5 Temmuz 2010
“Mahalleye Hoş Geldin”:Türkiye’nin Orta Doğu’da İlk Günü 02 Haziran 2010
Nükleer Takas: “Savaşı Bitiren Anlaşma” mı, “Acem Oyunu” mu? 20 Mayıs 2010
ABD Irak’tan Çekilirken Riskler ve Hesaplar 1 Mayıs 2010
ABD-İsrail İlişkilerinde “Normalleşme” Sancıları 22 Nisan 2010
Obama’nın Nükleer Cazibe Taarruzu: Bardağın Üçte Biri Dolu 9 Nisan 2010
ABD-İsrail İlişkilerinde “Tektonik Kayma” mı? 5 Nisan 2010
Irak Seçimleri: Sonun Başlangıcı, Başlangıcın Sonu 19 Mart 2010
Ermeni Karar Tasarısı Üzerine Notlar, Yorumlar ve Öneriler 8 Mart 2010
Ermeni Karar Tasarısı Üzerine Notlar, Yorumlar ve Öneriler 8 Mart 2010 (word)
Bütçe Açığı ve Amerikan Gerilemesinin Ekonomi Politiği 19 Şubat 2010
Cemaat-skeptic 6 Ocak 2010
AKP bir seçim daha kazanırsa burası FC olur 4 Ocak 2010
ABD bu işin neresinde? 29 Aralık 2009
Türkiye-Ermenistan Protokolü Üzerine Düşünceler 3 Eylül 2009
"Obama’nın Savaşı":AfPak Üzerine Notlar 20 Nisan 2009
Obama’nın Ardından 17 Nisan 2009
Obama’nın Türkiye Gezisi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 19 Mart 2009
ABD ve Orta Doğu Barış Süreci Mart 2009
Obama’nın “Kırkı Çıkarken” Mart 2009

ABD-PKK “İlişkisi” Üzerine Notlar Şubat 2009
Mahşerin Üç Atlısı: Ross, Holbrooke ve Mitchell 5 Şubat 2009
SOFA ABD için Irak’ta “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Ocak 2009
Obama Döneminde ABD ve Asya 15 Ocak 2009
Obama’nın Güvenlik Kabinesi Üzerine Notlar 4 Aralık 2008
Yeni ABD Başkanı Obama ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 6 Kasım 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimlerinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerine Muhtemel Etkileri 30 Ekim 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimleri Ekim 2008
Obama’nın Biden’ı Tercihinin Bir Tahlili 26 Ağustos 2008
Amerikan Sağı Üzerine Notlar Ağustos 2008
Gürcistan Krizi, ABD ve Türkiye 11 Ağustos 2008
Obama'nın Dış Gezisi 29 Temmuz 2008
Başkan Bush’un Avrupa Gezisi ve Transatlantik İlişkileri 18 Haziran 2008
ABD Seçimleri (ppt) - 10 Haziran 2008
"Sessiz Tsunami": Global Gıda Krizi (ppt) - 29 Nisan 2008
Amiral Fallon'un İstifası 13 Mart 2008
ABD ve PKK İlişkisi Üzerine Notlar 22 Kasım 2007
“İçeride Liberal, Dışarıda Şahin”: K. Irak’a Harekat Üzerine Notlar 25 Ekimy 2007
K.Irak'a Ekonomik Müeyyideler Üzerine Sorular 25 Ekimy 2007
Irak "Hamle"sinin Muhasebesi Eylül 2007
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri - Yeni Dönemin Gündemi Eylül 2007
ABD, K. Irak ve Türkiye Üzerine Notlar ve Sorular Haziran 2007
ABD ve Orta Doğu: "Müflis mirasyedi" mi "stratejik deha" mı? Mayıs 2007
Recommendations for Strengthening U.S.-Turkish Relations February 26, 2007
ABD'nin Irak'taki Seçenekleri Ocak 2007
'Topal Ördek'le İki Yıl Daha: 2006 Kongre Seçimleri Aralık 2006
U.S.: Empire, Gulliver or the “First Among Unequals” (ppt) - ASAM 2023 Conference - October 2006
Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerinde “İkinci Bahar” mı, “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Stratejik Analiz - Haziran 2006 -
Irak’ta Direnişin ve İşgalin Gölgesinde Demokrasi Deneyi Avrasya Dosyası - İslam ve Demokrasi Özel Sayısı
Gurur ve Önyargı: ABD İran Gerginliği ve Türkiye Stratejik Analiz Nisan 2006 - (pdf)
Arzın Merkezine Seyahat: ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi - Journey to the Center of the World: U.S. National Security Council Avrasya Dosyası 2005
Dört Tarz-ı Siyaset: Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri ve Başbakan Erdoğan’ın Washington Ziyareti Temmuz 2005
11 Eylül’den Sonra Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri: Eski Dostlar mı Eskimeyen Dostlar mı? Avrasya Dosyası - 2005
“Dört Yıl Daha”: Yeni Bush Yönetimi ve Dünya Aralık 2004
2004’ten 2005’e Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Aralık 2004
Türkiye, Iraklı Kürtler ve Statükonun Meşruiyeti Nisan 2004 - eksik
Askerî Alanda Devrim: Askerî Bir Senfoni Ocak 2004
Çirkin Amerikalı’ ile ‘Güven Bunalımı’: ‘Süleymaniye Krizi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Temmuz 2003 - ( pdf )
The Middle East: A Land of Opportunity and Peril for Turkey - May 2003
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Notlar: Ataerkil Yapıdan Tüccar Mantığına mı? Mayıs 2003
Türkiye, ABD ve Irak Harekâtı: Hayır Diyebilen Türkiye? - Şubat 2003
Değişim, ‘Sense of Proportion’ ve Tarihin Yararları ile Sınırları Üzerine Nisan 2003
ABD Güvenlik Politikalarında Güç Kullanımı ve Caydırıcılık Ağustos 2002
“Yalnız Kovboy” ya da “Eşit Olmayanlar Arasında Birinci”: ABD Dış Politikasında Tektaraflılık-Çoktaraflılık Tartışmaları Mart 2002
İyi, Kötü ve Çirkin: ABD'nin Orta Doğu Politikaları Ocak 2002
Unilateralism corrupts, absolute unilateralism corrupts absolutely Turkish News, May 21, 2002
ABD ve Afganistan: Çıkış Var mı? Kasım 2001
Realism and Change
Crime and Punishment - Deterrence and its Failure in Theory and Practice 2001
“Tüketebileceğimizden Daha Fazla Değişim” ya da Eskimeyen Dünya Düzeni Ekim 2001
“ABD-AB İlişkilerinde Metal Yorgunluğu” Haziran 2001
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