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17 January 2008
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H1 Christian Science Monitor

In Pentagon, a rift over U.S. troop cuts in Iraq While General Petraeus is in no hurry for more than five brigades to leave, Secretary Gates weighs a bigger drawdown

Washington Post Editorial Fight in Afghanistan It's becoming clear that the war must be won by U.S. troops, and not by NATO.

WINEP Bush's Middle East Trip: The President Embraces Rice's ApproachDavid Makovsky describes the potential risks and rewards for President Bush's decision to identify personally with his secretary of state's approach to Israeli-Palestinian relations

New York Times Editorial Don’t Tie the Next President’s Hands America’s interests demand that President Bush’s successor has maximum flexibility to plot a course regarding the war in Iraq.

[Fbis] OSC: OSC Analysis: Arab World -- President's Trip Fails To Temper Anti-US Attitudes

Gates's voice moderating US policies
Boston Globe -

Guardian There are great national anthems - now we need an international one Timothy Garton Ash: Spain struggles to find new words while Kosovo seeks a song of its own. La Marseillaise shows us how it's really done

Many miles, no breakthroughs
For all the bullish talk, President Bush will end his whirlwind Middle East tour in little doubt that US policies in the region are failing, writes Ian Black

• '100 Years of Middle Eastern Oil' by E. Roger Owen for Crown Center

Reconciling With the Ba'ath By: Amir Taheri | New York Post
For at least the last two years, national reconcilia tion has been the buzz phrase in all discussions on Iraq's future as it struggles to convince its friends to continue supporting it while fighting to defeat its internal and external enemies.

GAO Report Challenges Effect of Longtime US Sanctions on Iran

GAO Iran Sanctions: Impact in Furthering U.S. Objectives Is Unclear and Should Be Reviewed
Highlights ||| Full Report

Newsweek Long in the Tooth by Michael Hirsh Bush is pushing his policies hard in the Mideast, but he's also preparing the ground for his successor.

McClatchy Bush departs Mideast with few apparent gains, experts say

Redefining Success in Iraq By: Christopher Preble | The American Prospect Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the surge. The only real change has been the way politicians talk about what defines success in Iraq. But are the American people buying it?

Kevin Drum reviews Fred Kaplan's Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power.

Commentary: 2008 futurology By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE (UPI) -- Some 14 million U.S. government documents a year are classified confidential, secret and top secret for more than 29 million that are declassified -- at a total cost of $9 billion, up $3.5 billion since the al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Walker's World: Coupling and decoupling By MARTIN WALKER (UPI) -- Five months ago, when the subprime crisis began to bite, the Asian Development Bank was among the expert institutions that suggested that the U.S. financial troubles would not affect China. The fashionable word of the day was "decoupling."

UK says Iran hoodwinked U.S.But asserts intel report makes American attack more likely

USIP Event: Iraq's Mystery Men: Insurgent, Tribes and Sadrists

H2 Jamestown Foundation Turkey in Denial of al-Qaeda Threat By Rusen Cakir Despite several suicide car bombings tied to al-Qaeda and the threat of further strikes, Turkish counter-terrorism is overwhelmingly focused on the Kurdistan Workers' Party. Turkish public opinion remains unconvinced of the threat posed by al-Qaeda, with some even doubting its existence. Which makes Turkey, with its US-ties and secular underpinnings, perfect fodder for mayhem

La Croix - Özdem Sanberk Le « non » n' est pas une réponse à la Turquie

Getting our priorities right: Turkey and the EU by FARUK LOĞOĞLU

Tom Barnett The straight dope on Kurdistan

Ankara, Baku should stop ‘one nation’ rhetoric, says Bryza

Bryza şaşırttı: Bir millet, iki devlet düşüncesi değişmeli

'Türkiye Kısmen Özgür'

Freedom House’un yayınladığı Dünya Özgürlük Raporunda, siyasi ve medeni haklar alanında, Türkiye, “kısmen özgür” olarak sınıflandırılıyor

Turkish PM: Head Scarf Ban Can Be Lifted

Sudanese Presidential Visit Renews Suspicions About Ideology By: Gareth Jenkins | Eurasia Daily Monitor
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is scheduled to pay an official visit to Turkey. The upcoming visit has renewed suspicions that the foreign policy of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is partly driven by ideological considerations, particularly feelings of Muslim solidarity

[Fbis] OSC: Turkey: Kurdish Media Urge Youths To Torch Military Married Quarters

ERDOGAN INADVERTENTLY REIGNITES HEADSCARF DEBATE - Eurasia Daily Monitor

EurasiaNet Turkey: Murder Cases Underscore Troubles with Judicial, Police Reform
BY YIGAL SCHLEIFER The country has continued to be scandalized by reports that have come to light amid the trial of the five people charged in the case. Among the more sordid allegations is that police officers may have colluded in the killings, and that investigators have mismanaged the criminal probe.

CSM As tourism booms, a push for new models

Two Turkish villages illustrate the impact of radically different approaches to development.

Türk-Amerikan ilişkileri rayına girmeye başladı
MUHAMMED NUREDDİN

Remembering Hrant Dink by Vartan Oskanian*

Ha’aretz Israel proposes crude pipeline from Georgia to Eastern Asia

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Kürt kökenli vatandaşıma 'azınlıksın' derseniz sizi tekme tokat dışarı atarlar

"Kürtler asli unsurdur, aynı statüye sahibiz"

"Kürtlerin talebi hesaba katılmadı"

AKİF EMRE

Dil ve din korkusu, Kürt kimliği

Dağlıca haberlerine soruşturma

Serdar Turgut Melek'in abisi...

Cemil Çiçek: "Terör, dış politikanın parçasıdır"

Türk: Kürt sorunu aslında Türk sorunudur

Iraqi Kurdish Writer Wonders Why US President Not Visiting Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdish Sources Reported Saying Turkey Opened Artillery Fire Near Border

US Congress members see first hand Kurdistan's progress
Kurdistan Regional Government

Turkey Continues Operations Against Kurdish Rebels

Clowns and Kurdistan

Analysis: Iraq oil flow actually lower

DTP çadır kuracak

7. DTP’li Türk: En büyük tehlike PKK değil

Cudi'de büyük operasyon

25 Doçka sustu, mağara hastane yerle bir

DTP Şırnak'a yürüyecek

DTP, operasyon bölgesinde çadır kuracak

Diyarbakır'a TÜSİAD ziyareti

Nuh Gönültaş Diyarbakırlıya iyilik yapmak istiyorsanı...

Kurdish Congress Calls for Boycott of Turkish Media, Army Enlistment

Kurds Torch Vehicles to Protest Leader Detention, Turkish Raids - TV

Iraqi Kurdish MP Calls for Establishment of Anti-Corruption Committee

BBC Monitoring Quotes From the Turkish Press 16 Jan 08

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 16 Jan 08

Kurds Miffed by New Coalition

AB, Arap dünyasıyla ilişkilerin alternatifi değil

Gül ilk tuğlayı koydu, Kahire-Ankara ilişkilerine ticaret dopingi

Mehmet Tezkan

Arap ülkeleri neden bu kadar önemli?

Dooğu Ergil Iraqi Sunni groups and their power struggle

Sünnetsiz kundakçı DTP adına kurban derisi toplamış

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Erdoğan’dan Merkel ve Sarkozy’ye: Yemeyiz

Getting our priorities right: Turkey and the EU by FARUK LOĞOĞLU

Rauf Denktaş AB-KKTC ilişkileri

Beğenmediğimiz yemeği yemeyiz

Gül: 2008, AB yılı olacak

Masaya gelenden istediğimizi yeriz

Karamanlis geliyor

EU chair Slovenia backs Turkey talks

Ali Bulaç Anayasa ve AB

Mehmet Tezkan ‘2008 AB yılı olacak’

KKTC’de 6 milletvekili Meclis’ten çekildi

KKTC'de DP vekilleri meclisten istifa etti

KKTC's Avcı arrives in Ankara for talks with Babacan

TRT, AB'nin gerçek yüzünü ifşa etti!
Funda Özkan

49 yıl sonra ilk kez başbakan geliyor

'Başörtüsü yasaklansın' taslağına AP'den ret

'Ermenistan PKK'ya para veriyor'

Hakan Albayrak
Aliyev rejiminin “Cezayir” tezgâhı

IPI (International Press Institute) :: IPI's Open Letter to the Turkish Government on Article 301

28 Şubat mağduru sağlıkçılara gizli kamera tuzağı

3 büyük dinin Türkiye’deki inanç merkezlerinin haritası

Hrant Dink için gönüller seferber

Şövalye! Perihan Mağden

Faciayı pas geçti

4 ilde suç örgütü operasyonu: 61 gözaltı

Yargıtay: "Bıçak parası görevini kötüye kullanmaktır"

'Yeşil'in sağ kolu Zakir Selvi tutuklandı

Kuru sıkı silahlara yasal düzenleme talebi

Akıl almaz skandal

AKP'li Ocaktan'ı yalanlayan belge

Serdar Turgut
Çankaya’da iş istiyorum

Bakan Yazıcı: Gümrüklere yuvalanmış çeteler yok

Bedava üniversite ne demek?

Andrew Finkel The cost of free education

MİT'in sanatçı dostları

MİT için çalışan sanatçılar kim?

Hırsızlığa 10, bebek kaçırmaya 3 yıl hapis

H3 Erdoğan'dan 'tekme tokat' çıkışı

AK Parti yüzde 50 MHP yükseliyor CHP ise düsüyor

Yeni F-16'lar için kritik karar günü Yeni 30 adet F-16'ya milli yazılım yerine, hazır cihazın takılması tartışılıyor. Erdoğan'la Büyükanıt'ın kararları sonucu belirleyecek

'Dış politika cumhurbaşkanı'
Nuray Mert

Erdal Sağlam Nükleerde kavga büyüyecek

Cumhurbaşkan Gül'den uçakta gazetecilere çarpıcı açıklamalar

ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ - Türkiye'nin yeri neresi ?

Cengiz Çandar Hrant’a ne demeliyiz?

Cevdet Aşkın DTP Öcalan'ın mesajını aldı,Barzani profil düşürdü

Türbanda yeni açılım Tarhan Erdem

Hadi Uluengin İki model, iki diyalog

Erdoğan: Türbanı bir cümleyle çözeriz

Gül: Terörde 5 yıl kayıp dönem

Fırat: Mutabakat sağlanan anayasa 2008'de

Taha AKYOL Türban tartışması

Fikret BİLA Haşim Kılıç: Anayasa değişikliği daha pratik olabilir

Dağlıca ifadeleri geçersiz olabilir

Sanayi stratejisi hazırlanırken...
İsmet Berkan

SOLİ ÖZEL İnançlı olmak

Sebahattin Önkibar ABD'ye eksen değişikliği blöfü ve Rus Genelkurmay Başkanının ziyaret iptali!

Türkiye'ye gaz akışının ne zaman başlayacağı belirsiz

Eleştirilen komutan sorguya da girmiş

Baykal: Türban özgürlük değil, erkek dayatması

Akıl almaz skandal

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Grafters the core problem in Turkey’s energy sector

Ardan Zentürk İran doğalgazı: Siyasi risk!

Bilal Çetin Türban tartışmaları 2009 seçimlerine kadar sürebilir...

İbrahim Kalın Will the Alevi initiative share the destiny of the Kurdish initiative?

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık - Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Taha Kıvanç

Fehmi Koru Reach out but don’t touch anyone Bundan sonrası çıkmaz sokak

YASİN DOĞAN

Tanımlamak değil, anlamak lazım...

Ahmet Taşgetiren Çarpıtma ve kışkırtma

Hasan CEMAL Sorunlar birikirken Merkez Bankası'yla uğraşmak hata!

Ahmet Taşgetiren Sorunlar kangrene dönüşmeden...

Türban faşizmi Hasan Celal Güzel

Semih İDİZ 'Medeniyet barıştıran' Erdoğan'ın, antisemit ırkçılarla ne işi var?

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU

Hrant Dink hâlâ uyarıyor

TAMER KORKMAZ

Bay Kal!

Mustafa Erdoğan Hükümetin ‘eylem planı’ toparlanma işareti mi?

Bilal Çetin Bu simge Türkiyeyi gerecek...Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Askere Yüce Divan’a son anda hassas rötuş

’Yeni anayasa sıkıntı yaratır’

Reşat Petek Özgürlük için Anayasa maddesi şart

Ayhan Belgen Yeni bir muhalefet diline ihtiyaç var

Ömer Lütfi Mete Nükleer yolu mu, yolsuzluğu mu?

Ekrem Dumanlı Hiçbir mesele böyle çözülmez

Şahin Alpay Muharrem iftarının anlamı

Mümtazer Türköne Velev ki, medeniyetin simgesi olsa!

Hüseyin Gülerce Yeni Türkiye'nin yeni ikilisi

Tayyip Erdoğan�a 11 türban sorusu...

İster simge ister inanç nasıl isterse öyle giyinmeli insan... Reha Muhtar yazdı

'Başbakan Erdoğan 'bile' rezervini koydu'

CHP ve DSP başörtüsü tartışmasında yalnız kaldı

Baykal'a ansiklopedili başörtüsü cevabı

Ertuğrul Özkök Eski gömleğe dönüş mü

Ahmet Hakan Ben de Erdoğan gibi düşünüyorum ama

M Ali Birand Mübarek: AB’de din tartışması olmaz

Cüneyt Ülsever Başbakan kendi ayağına kurşun sıkıyor

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Başbakan’ın tercihleri

Özdemir İnce

Toktamış Ateş Türkiye Aleviler ve talepleri

Many more questions surface as Dağlıca probe deepens

Mehmet Barlas Gerçek gündemi dağıtmaya türban konusu tek başına yetmez...

17 Ocak 2008 Basın Özeti

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Türbanlı kızlar umurunda bile değil

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Siyasetin türbanı

Ulusalcılar, yerel seçimler için örgütleniyor

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK Komşudan tarihi ziyaret

ERGUN BABAHAN Dağlıca olayı

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK CHP'nin alamet-i farikası

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Mısır şans mı tehdit mi?

YAVUZ DONAT

Başörtüsü bireysel özgürlük, yasak acilen kalkmalı

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM 10 yıllık faiz resesyon diyorsa 100 dolarlık petrol ne diyor?

Decoupling hipotezi Mahfi Eğilmez

Turkish official unemployment figures confounding

Gelişen ülkeler bizi de kurtarır mı?
Korkmaz İlkorur

Ben iktidarım, Merkez Bankası'nın yerini ben belirlerim! Fatih Özatay

Elektrikte zam oranı kesinleşti: Yüzde 19,5

Ercan Kumcu Dış ticarette hacim büyüyor fiyatlar artıyor

Deniz Gökçe Meğer genetik soruna psikolojik tedavi imiş!

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Greenspan'e göre, ABD durgunluğa girdi bile

Erdal Sağlam

Cari açık uyarısı

Dünya Bankası Kalkınma Ekonomisi Müdürü Hans Timmer, Reuters'e şunları söyledi: Cari açık varsa daha kırılgansınızdır

Dünya Bankası: Öğretmen maaşını düşürün

WB official raises concerns over Turkeys current account deficit

Türk işadamı deveyi iğne deliğinden geçirir bilesiniz

Migros’a üç teklif geldi

Cari açık uyarısı

Dünya Bankası Kalkınma Ekonomisi Müdürü Hans Timmer, Reuters'e şunları söyledi: Cari açık varsa daha kırılgansınızdır

Metin MÜNİR Türk lirasının kurdu nerede?

H4 New York Times Editorial Don’t Tie the Next President’s Hands America’s interests demand that President Bush’s successor has maximum flexibility to plot a course regarding the war in Iraq.

Bernanke Is Said to Support Stimulus Measures The chairman of the Federal Reserve told members of Congress he would back tax cuts or spending measures, so long as they are temporary.

GAIL COLLINS The Anti-Charm Offensive If the Republicans were a movie, they’d be one like “The Dirty Dozen” in which a bunch of oddballs get thrown together to accomplish a dangerous mission.

ROGER COHEN A Center Called McCain Although John McCain is too conservative, and his temperament and age raise concerns, he is too honorable to dismiss at a moment so critical to America’s standing in the world.

Mr. Right By ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE John McCain is more likely than any of his rivals to offer conservatives what they want

Even at Home, Backers Worry About Giuliani Even as Rudolph Giuliani plummets in some national polls, his rivals are encroaching on his own backyard.

H5 Washington Post Editorial Fight in Afghanistan It's becoming clear that the war must be won by U.S. troops, and not by NATO.

U.S. Boosts Its Use of Airstrikes in Iraq In trend, U.S. military conducted more than five times as many airstrikes in Iraq last year as it did in 2006, targeting al-Qaeda safe houses and weapons stockpiles

47 Killed as Insurgents Take Fort in Pakistan Fighters mounted a brazen assault on a key fort in northwestern Pakistan, seizing it from security forces in a battle that left at least 47 people dead, military says.

Army Chief May Shorten Tours In Iraq, Afghanistan by Summer

Hawkish Party Leaves Israel's Ruling Coalition

NATO Allies Bristle at Criticisms From Gates

Democracy Activists Disappointed in Bush

The Obama of 'Dreams' By David Ignatius Barack Obama's first memoir, 'Dreams From My Father,' deserves to be a modern classic on the subject of the moment -- race and identity.

William Arkin Pakistan's Political Theater

The Résumé Gap A Democratic Field Without an Executive By David S. Broder, It is stunning to realize that the three Democratic frontrunners have not a day of chief executive experience among them

Misstep in a Liberal Minefield By George F. Will,

The party that brought us sensitivity training is stepping on its own toes.

A Tale of Abuse Was Jose Padilla, an American arrested in the United States, subjected to illegal torture? Congress should find out.

H6 Guardian There are great national anthems - now we need an international one Timothy Garton Ash: Spain struggles to find new words while Kosovo seeks a song of its own. La Marseillaise shows us how it's really done

Many miles, no breakthroughs
For all the bullish talk, President Bush will end his whirlwind Middle East tour in little doubt that US policies in the region are failing, writes Ian Black

A spectacular mess

Michael Boyle Jan 16 08, 07:30pm: President Bush's trip to the Middle East was not an exercise in diplomacy. It was a travelling roadshow for America's failed policy in the region

Gates: US allies do not know how to fight insurgents Deepening divisions within Nato over its military operations in Afghanistan emerge

Pressure gauges

Michael Jacobson Jan 16 08, 05:00pm: UN sanctions are necessary to keep Iran's nuclear programme in check, but a monitoring team is needed to ensure that they are enforced

Leader What Paddy did next
Afghanistan: Lord Ashdown has all the right credentials for the post of UN envoy to Afghanistan

Northern Rock has exposed the reality of the free market
Seumas Milne: Takeover of the stricken bank should break the public ownership taboo - well overdue in light of privatisation's record

Russia standoff moves towards crisis

Security services harass British Council staff while Kinnock's son is held on suspicion of drink-driving

Background: the British Council

Analysis: the Anglo-Russian chill

Romney win splits Republican field

Divided results mean fight may go beyond Super Tuesday as questions arise over ideological path

Democrats laugh loudest at Republican outcome

Spanish discord kills new anthem

Proposed new lyrics for the Spanish national anthem withdrawn amid rightwing accusations

I have a nightmare
Jonathan Farley: To liken Barack Obama to Martin Luther King does him no favours: non-violence failed us

Al-Qaida US has little future in the franchise Crispin Black: The description of Europe as a possible 'platform' for a terrorist attack against the US by Michael Chertoff, the secretary for homeland security, is annoying, ironic and worrying

Beyond the shock value
Mark Seddon: There may be a simpler reason why North Korea has not disclosed its nuclear inventory

British military action is the jihadis' call to arms
Khaled Diab:The best way to eliminate the threat on British soil is not to tighten security, which could be futile since any possible attackers are likely to be home-grown, but to strike at the root causes

The world according to Wall Street

Ian Williams January 15, 2008 9:00 PM

Complaints that Europeans are biased against capitalism ignore the facts about the European economy and the social injustices and economic inequalities in America

H7

McClatchy Bush departs Mideast with few apparent gains, experts say

Redefining Success in Iraq By: Christopher Preble | The American Prospect Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the surge. The only real change has been the way politicians talk about what defines success in Iraq. But are the American people buying it?

Kevin Drum reviews Fred Kaplan's Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power.

Daily Star Only time will tell whether Bush's stated goals are genuine or not

• '100 Years of Middle Eastern Oil' by E. Roger Owen for Crown Center,

Global: the great power-shift - a fourfold critique (Perry Anderson)

In Iraq, A Sunni-Shi'ite Detente?

Bush in Arabia - Editorial (New York Sun)

Iraq: Reasons for Fear, Hope - Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer

Al Awsat Lebanon: An Arab Position is Necessary : Tariq Alhomayed

Asia Times Stance on dress code stains Ahmadinejad
In the past nine months, one in 70 Iranians has been accosted by morality police and thousands arrested for violations of Islamic dress code or hijab. From boots on women to short sleeves on men, the list of "the inappropriate" is long. Now the government of President Ahmadinejad is doing an abrupt about-face on the issue, and exposing an unlikely endeavor to please both young reformists and the hardline religious establishment.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Andrew Sullivan on the erosion of American values and reputation by the detentions at Guantanamo Bay (and a slideshow).

The American footprint

Helena Cobban More on 'Filipino Monkey', need for hotline

Nasser's complex legacy, Tarek Osman

CRS "The Gulf Security Dialogue and Related Arms Sale Proposals," January 14, 2008.

Bush Should Borrow a Page From Kennan By: Thomas J. Raleigh | The Moscow Times
There was once a time when the phrase "quiet diplomacy" was redundant. In terms of how the United States has come to conduct its foreign policy of late, the phrase has become oxymoronic.

The Grave Iranian Threat to World Peace by Glenn Greenwald

WINEP Bush's Middle East Trip: The President Embraces Rice's ApproachDavid Makovsky describes the potential risks and rewards for President Bush's decision to identify personally with his secretary of state's approach to Israeli-Palestinian relations

Pressure GaugesBetter enforcement of existing sanctions against Iran's nuclear program -- as undertaken recently by the United Arab Emirates, for example -- can help raise the costs to Tehran of defiance of UN resolutions even in the absence of new UN sanctions

Presidential Politics: Republican and Democratic Views on Middle East Policy

Asia Times The 'war on terror' moves East The Pentagon is sending 3,200 marines to Afghanistan to help quell the upsurge in insurgent violence in the Pashtun-dominated southern and eastern provinces. The move is not without flaws and detractors in Afghanistan, where atrocities committed by marines are still fresh in the minds of many. Meanwhile, the US's decision to send 18 F-16 warplanes to neighboring Pakistan highlights the George W Bush administration's "skewed" approach to Islamabad. - Jason Motlagh and Jim Lobe

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

BBC Agencies see good year for Iraq The IMF and UN paint a bright picture of economic growth and political stabilisation in Iraq for the near future.

Cycle of violence
Beirut explosion fuels fears that Lebanon crisis will drag on

French move
President Sarkozy makes a deal for naval base in the Gulf

Navy Tells Bush Iran Incident 'Serious'

Petraeus Says Iran Still Training Iraq Militants

US Official: Iran Has Sped Up Missile Development

Admiral: Pakistan OKs Bigger US Role

Gates Faults NATO Force in S. Afghanistan

Allies Irked by Reported Gates Comments

Opium fields spread across Iraq as farmers try to make ends meet

US Diplomat Casts Doubt on New Iran Nuclear Deadline

US to Pursue New Iran Sanctions

Syrian Officials Call on Arab Countries to Deepen Relations with Iran

Syria says it has Lebanese allies, not 'tools'

Why not the patriarch's moment?
By Michael Young

“Al-Qaeda in Lebanon,” by Nir Rosen

Bush Avoids Criticism of Mubarak

Egyptian Opposition Finds Common Ground Against Bush

Iraqi Arab Sunni MP Opposes "Narrow" Faction Alliances

[Fbis] OSC: Lebanon's Nasrallah Addresses Beirut Rally on Bush's Visit, Lebanese Affairs

[Fbis] OSC: FYI--Hizballah Political Council Head Delivers Ashura Speech, Terms Bush 'Liar'

[Fbis] OSC: Iraq: Al-Ani Says Al-Hashimi, Al-Hakim 'Blessed' Voting for Accountability Law

U.S. Court Orders Libya to Pay $6 Billion for Airline Bombing By: Michael Heath | Bloomberg News
A U.S. judge ordered Libya and six of its officials to pay about $6 billion in damages to the families of Americans killed in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner, lawyers for the families said

H9 Ha’aretz Top IDF source: If Hamas curbs fire, we will follow

Start from the endWhile the IDF is preparing for the operation, the government must focus on preparing the ground for a political move at its conclusion. Until Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak do this, they must not send the IDF into the Gaza Strip

Harel He has no core

Diplomat: Israel and U.S. Differ on Interpretation of Bush's 2004 Letter to Sharon

Jerusalem PostJoint US-EU-NATO security body mulled

Retired military commander call for unified directorate - without Israel's participation.

· Obama is not 'bad for Israel'

What's "pro-Israel" and who appointed anyone to cast judgment on the issue?

Middle East report card

[ DANIEL PIPES

· Rattling the Cage: The three Bibis

[ LARRY DERFNER

What's Mine Is Mine and What's Yours Is Mine – Editorial

How Olmert Defies Gravity By: Caroline Glick | The Jerusalem Post
The Olmert government's Palestinian policies are overwhelmingly rejected by the Israeli public. In a recent B'nai Brith poll, two thirds of the public said that the government has no mandate to conduct negotiations on these issues. Two thirds similarly said that they oppose any Israeli concessions in Jerusalem.

Faith and Fantasy By: Cal Thomas | Miami Herald
During his recent trip to Israel, President Bush visited several places that reaffirmed his faith, including Bethlehem and the Sea of Galilee. Then exhibiting far greater faith than believing that Jesus could walk on water, he asserted that ''peace'' could be had between Israel, the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors.

Yedioth Ahronoth Rocket salvo hits Sderot

End leftist hypocrisy

Left must not ignore leaders' failures even if they advance peace process, Eran Hermoni says

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

Rice: Arabs Should Reach Out to Israel

Israeli Hardliner Ditches Olmert

AIPAC versus FBI

Forward Reckless in Gaza Ehud Olmert, Israel’s perpetually embattled prime minister, probably thought he was performing a daring display of political balancing this week. First he saw off the visiting President Bush with grand words of peace. Then he announced that he opposed any major ground incursion into lawless Gaza. The next day, his troops opened up the bloodiest day of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in more than a year.

Push for Peace Now, Before Bush and Abbas Step Down
Markus Bouillon and Michael Shtender-Auerbach

Fresh Gaza air strike kills three

Israeli forces carry out further raids on the Gaza Strip, killing three Palestinian civilians in an air strike.

Nazi hunters run against time Jerusalem-based Nazi hunters, engaged in a race against time to find and prosecute World War II criminals before they die of old age, say they are frustrated that some European governments have not shown the same sense of urgency

H10 Christian Science Monitor

In Pentagon, a rift over U.S. troop cuts in Iraq While General Petraeus is in no hurry for more than five brigades to leave, Secretary Gates weighs a bigger drawdown

Amid peace talks, an Israeli faction balks Yisrael Beiteinu left Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ruling coalition on Jan. 16.

New research raises concern on biofuel safety Even as some states are mandating ethanol as part of the fuel mix, new research suggests that some biofuels are less ecofriendly than they

Freedom takes a hit worldwide A new report says a clampdown on political rights made 43 countries 'not free' in 2007.

Missing in 2008: a front-runnerRomney's Michigan win deepened GOP uncertainty before crucial upcoming contests.

The inflation squeeze tightens Prices spiked 4.1 percent last year, the highest increase in 17 years.

Mike Huckabee: a conservative with a social gospel

In Nevada, a first test of Latinos' leanings in '08 race The immigration debate may tip them toward the Democrats. But which one?

In Britain, Brown's take on organ donation boosts new credo Libertarian paternalism - 'framing' choices for people, but letting them opt out - is gaining traction among US and European leaders.

THE MONITOR'S VIEW

Atomic power regains its glowGovernments must take a gimlet-eyed look. Nuclear's drawbacks haven't gone away

ASIA

Washington Times China's paths to hegemony Chinese armies won't march across international borders but rather Beijing seeks to acquire such political, economic and diplomatic clout that major decisions in every Asian capital will require Chinese approval.

Boston Globe New wisdom from Asia's giants

NOT LEAST because Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Chinese leaders hosting him this week in Beijing represent a third of the world's population, their pledges of peaceful cooperation come as a welcome display of moderation and good sense. (Boston Globe)

China and India: New Vision, Old Tensions By: Dexter Roberts | Business Week Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first official visit to China resulted in agreement on many issues. But mutual suspicion lingers

Gvosdev India/China: No Need to Panic, Yet

America's Asian Opportunity AEI
A 5-page paper adressing how the US should revitalize its policies towards Asia

NYT Push for Education Yields Little for India’s Poor India faces the difficulty of educating its children in public schools that have sunk to spectacularly low levels.

CFR Pakistan Confronts Economic Tremors

CRS Pakistan-U.S. Relations," updated January 11, 2008.

Advancing the Bhutto Legacy By: Husain Haqqani | The Boston Globe
Given the choice between flawed politicians and a military-intelligence establishment that has fostered terrorism for years, the international community -- including the United States -- must side with Pakistan's politicians. Politics can change.

Boost Pakistanis' Confidence in Elections By: Lisa Curtis | Los Angeles Times
Most Pakistanis doubt that free and fair elections can be held with President Pervez Musharraf at the helm. He has squandered his credibility over the last year, dismissing the country's Supreme Court chief justice last March, imposing emergency rule in November and then mishandling the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

IHT SUHARTO'S LEGACY

The one that got away ... or not?

By JULIA SURYAKUSUMA

As a dictator fades into history, the truth about the 1960s massacres may emerge at last

Partying in Russia By: Arun Kumar Singh | The Times of India
Of late, the Indian press has been going hammer and tongs over the 'chill' in Indo-Russian ties. This brings back rather pleasant memories of Vladivostok, where the Indian Navy detachment had arrived in October 1983.

The United States intervened to block South Korea from developing nuclear weapons in the 1970s, according to newly declassified Korean government documents. South Korea was seeking to acquire nuclear reactors from Canada and nuclear reprocessing technology from France in support of a weapons program, but U.S. pressure led to cancellation of the latter purchase. See "Park Sought to Develop Nuclear Weapons," Korea Times, January 15.

Pan-Tonkin Gulf Cooperation By: Li Mingjiang | RSIS
The South China Sea territorial dispute is the last but still salient security issue between China and several ASEAN countries. The emerging Pan-Tonkin Gulf Regional Economic Cooperation scheme has the potential to further de-securitize the South China Sea dispute and forge cooperation in many areas.

KMT Landslide The Economist
It is also a clear sign that Taiwan's voters are eager for the government to focus on economic policymaking after several years of partisan paralysis under the DPP. Given that the KMT is also expected to win the presidential election in March, Taiwan appears to be moving towards an easing of tensions with China that will significantly improve the self-ruled island's economic prospects.

Battle Over Suharto's Legacy a Test for Modern Indonesia By: Fabio Scarpello | World Politics Review
Some want him pardoned and remembered as the "Father of Development." Others say his name should forever be linked to the crimes he committed. Almost 10 years since he was deposed by a student-led movement, former dictator Suharto still divides Indonesia.

Beijing, Beijing, it's a helluva town
China's fabled capital Beijing is fast losing its luster for some Chinese fed up with its pollution, swelling population, staggering prices, snarled traffic and construction boom. Some are even calling for a new capital - though others are in love with Beijing's chic appeal and are anxious to bask in the rest of the world's approval under the Summer Olympics' spotlight

H11 IHT A state of denial

By PERVEZ HOODBHOY

As suicide bombings escalate, criticism of religious extremists remains taboo.

Sarkozy packs up troubles in his suitcaseUnder fire at home, his marital status a mystery, the president of France is projecting French power in far-flung places and promoting himself as a global intellectual.

Signing near for accord on U.S. missile shield, Czechs sayThe Czech Republic and the United States are within months of signing three framework agreements on the deployment of the Pentagon's missile shield, Karel Schwarzenberg, the Czech foreign minister, said Wednesday.

Brown's guest list backfires with EU leadersBritish officials confirmed Wednesday that they were widening the guest list for what was to be one of the first European initiatives from Prime Minister Gordon Brown: an ad hoc meeting of just four leaders to be held in London.

Britain shuts cultural center amid Russian pressureA British cultural organization at the center of a dispute between the Kremlin and Britain closed its office in St. Petersburg on Wednesday under pressure from Russia's intelligence service

The other Nano

Ratan Tata should focus his talents on creating transportation that is both affordable and doesn't emit ever more greenhouse gases.

Roger Cohen: McCain's comeback By ROGER COHEN

Consistency on Iraq and a penchant for bucking the party line draws new support.

Faith, freedom and bling

By MAUREEN DOWD

President Bush's message while puddle jumping through Arabia boiled down to: Iran bad, Israel good, Iraq doing better

The truth is out there ... isn't it? By ALEX BEAM

The main event in contemporary conspiracy-mongering is, of course, 9/11.

EUROPE European press review

The Encounter of Islam with Europe

Europe Will Be Hard Hit by the Recessionary Storm Now Sweeping the US

Dutch Defense Minister Summons US Ambassador Over Reported Gates Remarks

BBC Is Europe becoming a platform for terrorists?

National makeover
Serbian voters put jobs first despite Kosovo tensions

Press president
Sarkozy's 'saturation' strategy raises fears for media freedom

Serbia's choice: a prosperous future or an obsessive past?
By John O'Brennan

H12 RFE/RL Georgia: Focus Of Political Turmoil Shifting To Parliamentary Vote

IAEA Seeks Answers To Radioactive Seizure

A week after Kyrgyz officials announced the discovery of radioactive material aboard a train bound for Iran, the UN nuclear agency is still waiting for Bishkek to reply to a request for more information on the incident. Experts say it appears unlikely smuggling was involved, but the case is a wakeup call to the threat of nuclear proliferation from former Soviet areas

Former Taliban Commander Advises U.S. Ambassador

When U.S. Ambassador William Wood paid a visit, ex-Taliban commander and Musa Qala district chief Mullah Abdul Salaam had a list of requests: greater reconstruction efforts, more security, and assurances that corruption won't block government aid

Google News Azerbaijan

BBC Russia warns Kosovo faces limbo Moscow says Kosovo will never be accepted as a state by the UN if it declares independence.

EDM ALMOST TWO-THIRDS OF RUSSIANS BELIEVE DEMOCRACY IS THE BEST POLITICAL SYSTEM
- GEORGIA’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION ADDS TO INTERNAL LEGITIMACY
- POST-ELECTION EMOTIONS RUN HIGH AMONG OPPOSITION LEADERS

Israel proposes crude pipeline from Georgia to Eastern Asia

Russia Won't Rent Ukrainian Radar Kommersant
The Russian Defense Ministry has decided not to renew its lease on two Dnepr radar stations located in Ukraine near the cities of Sevastopol and Mukachevo.

Partying in Russia By: Arun Kumar Singh | The Times of India
Of late, the Indian press has been going hammer and tongs over the 'chill' in Indo-Russian ties. This brings back rather pleasant memories of Vladivostok, where the Indian Navy detachment had arrived in October 1983.

EurasiaNet Democratization Takes a Beating in 2007 - Report
BY DEIRDRE TYNAN
A report released January 16 by the civil rights group Freedom House laments that global democratization is in retreat after suffering "a notable setback" in 2007. The Freedom House survey ranked two Central Asian nations, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as among the "worst of the worst" when it comes to government repression of individual rights. It also lambasted Russia for conducting "patently unfair" parliamentary elections, and for providing "political, moral and material support to [Central Asian] authoritiarians."

H13 The Times US attacks allies over Taleban conflict

The US Defence Secretary accused Nato countries fighting in southern Afghanistan of lacking experience to fight the Taleban

Tide begins to turn against Sarkozy

Negative ratings in the polls and criticism of his new romance have led the French president to get serious

Russia steps up diplomatic war with Britain Russian police held the son of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock as part of an intimidation campaign against British staff

We must name our price

Governments are going to have to bail out the banks; in return they must change their ways Anatole Kaletsky

Fractured Republican caravan keeps rolling on

The divided and disorientated party turns to South Carolina for a clear direction in its zig-zag course in the presidential fight

Wall Street Journal Europe v. U.S. Business

Antitrust as the new mercantilism. Review & Outlook

Obama = Jackson + Dean

By James Taranto
He gets the black vote and the liberal professional elite. Is that enough to overcome Mrs. Clinton?

Justice for the CIA

By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey
The danger of special prosecutors is that they will investigate people, not crimes.

New Fields May Offset Oil Drop

Global oil-field output is declining at a rate of about 4.5% a year, a new study concludes. But projects in the works could make up for the decline

McCain Courts Military Vote McCain is banking on the military vote to win South Carolina. Aides hope his rivals divide the evangelical vote to give him a victory in a state with a sizable population of active-duty military and

Deal Fees Under Fire Amid Crisis

The financial crisis shaking global markets has spurred a re-examination of how financiers get paid, and whether the incentives the pay structure creates need to be modified.

The Dollar and Bush's Big Monetary Mistake - Steve Forbes, Forbes

Well-Placed to Weather an Economic Storm By: Martin Gilman | The Moscow Times
Next week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos will open under more than just the usual degree of uncertainty about the direction of world affairs. The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of a recession whose global reach is unknown. Political factors further complicate making an assessment of how the world will cope with what is likely to be a challenging 2008.

The Need for an Economic Stimulus Package CEPR
A 7-page policy proposal outlining the need for, and the nature of, a substantial economic stimulus package to lessen the effects of a weakening US economy

H14 Financial Times Israeli coalition begins to crumble Prime minister Ehud Olmert has lost the backing of his rightwing coalition partner after it quit the government in protest against peace talks with the Palestinians

Gulf states’ foreign assets to top $2,000bn

Net foreign assets of Gulf Arab states are set to rise to more than $2,000bn by the end of this year on rocketing oil prices

Bush vows to ‘stay engaged’ with Middle East

President George W Bush wound up his tour of the Middle East by calling on Egypt to provide more help for the Middle East peace process, and pledging to “stay engaged”.

WORLD NEWS: Global demand for oil less than expected

Lockheed Martin given F-22 reprieve

The Pentagon will ask Congress for money to buy additional F-22 fighter jets, postponing the closure of the Lockheed Martin production line for stealth aircraft -

Bernanke ready to support fiscal stimulus

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is expected to offer his qualified support for the idea of a fiscal stimulus to support the US economy

US annual inflation fastest since 1990

The underlying rate of inflation remained uncomfortably high in December, new data showed, highlighting the risk the Federal Reserve is taking as it turns its focus to fighting recession risk

Truce had little impact on black vote

The apparent ‘truce’ between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in their poisonous war of words over race, gender and other divisive identity questions had little impact on Michigan’s African-American voters

Smooth New Europe’s entry to the euro Locking into the currency means that a country chooses more inflation but less exchange rate volatility, writes Marek Belka

Germany grows

The country is on the cusp of a sustained expansion , to throw that away through reluctance to reform would be a pity

Eastern Europe’s workforce goes west

The EU’s new member states are finding posts hard to fill now that 5m have emigrated

UK warns Russia as police hold top official

The UK has warned Moscow to stop intimidating and harassing staff working for the British Council in Russia as a diplomatic dispute between the two countries escalated

Europe outlook holds up despite global gloom

Unlike in the US and the UK, there is little evidence the subprime fallout is hurting contin ental economies

Barroso defends Europe’s economic strength Europe’s economy remains strong despite signs of an impending downturn, the European Commission said -

Saudi inflation hits new high

Inflation rate rises half a point in December to 6.5% raising speculation whether the authorities will consider revaluing the riyal for the first time in 22 years -

Detroit looks uneasily to the east

The shift in the business world’s axis towards Asia was hard to ignore as troubled US carmakers gathered for their annual motor show, writes John Gapper. One sign of it was that the most discussed car at the Detroit show was not actually on display. It was Tata’s $2,500 Nano small car for the Indian market

Big drug companies raided in EU probe Some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies were raided by European regulators investigating whether they conspired to keep up the price of drugs after patents expired

Airbus warns of 50% fall in aircraft orders

Expects peak in deliveries between 2010 and 2012

China’s state companies outgrow the ‘family’

Richard McGregor sees increasing autonomy

H15 Los Angeles Times

Editorial

Abortions in U.S. show decline In the early 1980s, nearly one in three pregnant women chose abortion. Now it's closer to one in five, a study finds.

H16 American Politics

From TAP, an article on the Democrats' strategic challenge; and let's not kid ourselves: Most of America votes largely on the basis of personality — and every candidate fits a stereotype

From Taki's Top Drawer, Justin Raimondo on the Real American Right (and part 2 and part 3);

Rove previews strategies against Clinton, Obama — Karl Rove told a group of state Republican officials Wednesday that while the GOP primaries “are far from over,” each of the candidates can beat the top two Democrats — and the former White House aide then outlined a strategy how.

Guilt by association

Dan Kennedy US elections 2008: Ron Paul says he had no knowledge of the bigoted remarks printed in newsletters that bear his name. The press should investigate further

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

McCain is target of 'dirty tricks campaign'

John McCain, the Republican presidential hopeful, has been accused of betraying fellow prisoners of war in Vietnam in what his aides say is a dirty tricks campaign.

H17 Daily Telegraph

Euro-federalists stoop to censorship

The latest example of Eurocrats showing flagrancy for breaking their own rules, writes Daniel Hannan, puts the European Parliament morally and legally in the wrong

H18 Independent Resignation of hardliners leaves Israel coalition in disarray

Hamish McRae: Sovereign wealth funds: the power barons who will change our markets

Republicans are losers as Romney win leaves the race wide open

Adrian Hamilton: What voters really care about is the same the world over

Leading article: Now the right has its own primary race to savour

Opium fields spread across Iraq as farmers try to make ends meet

The Big Question: What is Scientology, and why have Tom Cruise's claims for it rebounded?

As Islamic banking takes off, new courses are being set up in the universities

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

House Passes $696 Billion Defense Bill

Military Reform: A Reference Handbook

Slate: Why is the Army losing so many talented midlevel officers?

BBC Is Europe becoming a platform for terrorists?

A Web Q&A with bin Laden's No. 2: Questions for Al-Qaida

The Cost of The Next 10 Years in Iraq

Top Rumsfeld Aide Wins Contracts From Spy Office He Set Up

From The Atlantic Monthly, Andrew Sullivan on the erosion of American values and reputation by the detentions at Guantanamo Bay (and a slideshow).

The American footprint

Maritime Security (PDF; 892 KB)
Source: Lexington Institute

How the Pentagon planted a false story
The ballyhooed US-Iranian Strait of Hormuz speedboat incident was essentially a propaganda hoax concocted by the Pentagon as evidence of a dire Iranian threat. It has since failed to pass scrutiny and even the US Navy is distancing itself from this public relations debacle. - Gareth Porter

US spy chief pans FISA: Weak wiretap laws caused 9/11

What the CIA
Had to Destroy
by Nat Hentoff

High-Profile Officer Nagl to Leave Army, Join Think Tank - Tom Ricks, Washington Post

From Harper's, what do Putin, Bush and Hu have in common? They are the heads of the three most significant nations whose people live under "endemic surveillance".

From Popular Mechanics, in the era of computer-controlled surveillance, your every move could be captured by cameras; proponents say it will keep us safe, but at what cost?

Elites Lack Military Understanding - Peter Gudmundsson, Baltimore Sun

Pentagon Tackles Controls on Unclassified Information

Terror's financiers

U.S. oversight needs to improve

PAPER: Computer geek, son of diplomat, revealed as Al Qaeda's top cyber terrorist...

U.S. Court Orders Libya to Pay $6 Billion for Airline Bombing By: Michael Heath | Bloomberg News
A U.S. judge ordered Libya and six of its officials to pay about $6 billion in damages to the families of Americans killed in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner, lawyers for the families said

Rate of Traumatic Stress Triples Among US Troops

Report Says Iraq Contractors Operate With Impunity

Military cohesion, social discord
Unit cohesion in the US military, as evidenced in Iraq, is not entirely the result of the Pentagon learning the harsh lessons of the Vietnam War. It is also being accomplished at the cost of less societal cohesion at home in America, with ever-widening polarization between the rural and urban population centers. - Julian Delasantellis

Why divorce is good for women.
Tim Harford

More on Dani Rodrik's One Economics, Many Recipes.

Study links corporate performance to employee enablement Companies seeking to improve their performance should focus more attention on their employees, giving them the tools, resources and autonomy they need to do their jobs well, suggests a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Microsoft Direct to Full Text

Climate change and the biosphere: As Earth's climate warms, the effects are showing up in the planet's biological systems, from the lowliest soil microbes to the grandest coral reefs. The sixth extinction event is under way.

The Economics of Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and a Global Deal

2008 Index of Economic Freedom
Source: Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal
From press release:

Lost and Found CSPS
A 52-page guide offering strategic insights and useful advice about smart practices that combat organizational memory loss

Giovanni Arrighi (JHU): Historical Perspectives on States, Markets and Capitalism, East and West.

The first chapter from The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Rich by Frederic S. Mishkin

H21

Just what is a think tank?

A look at why dogs are ill-disposed to humanity.

That Wilting Flower

Hilary Mantel: The Lure of the Unexplained

Eric Hobsbawm discovered himself in the strange and wonderful city of Berlin. It seemed like the capital of the 20th century – till the barbarians took over... more»

From The Wilson Quarterly, Karol Boudreaux and Tyler Cowen on the micromagic of microcredit.

Consciousness is “caused by and realized in” the brain. Explaining what that means is a life project for John Searle... more»

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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
It never rains circa. 1991.
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