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13 February 2008
  February 13, 2008

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H1 New York Times News Analysis: With a Surge in Momentum, Obama Makes His Case

Stratfor The U.S.-Iranian Negotiations: Beyond the Rhetoric

Washington Post In Iraq, Don't Force the Issue By Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates A new agreement between Iraqis and U.S. forces is necessary. Congress should let the administration negotiate it.

Editorial Good Sense on Iraq At last, a Bush administration defense secretary listens to his commanders

Editorial The 9/11 Trials Their fairness should be indisputable. That's not likely under the current military commission system.

Cracks in Clinton Coalition May Signal a Turning Point

Senate Authorizes Broad Expansion Of Surveillance Act

Putin Threatens Ukraine On NATO

Russian Raises Issue Of U.S. Missile Shield

NATO's Check-Up By: Ralph Peters | New York Post
There's life in the old alliance yet. For 44 years, NATO has given itself an informal health exam at the Munich Conference on Security Policy. This year's poking and prodding had to be encouraging to anyone with a long-term perspective.

Christian Science Monitor

With Gates's shift on drawdowns, little reprieve ahead for U.S. Army in Iraq In agreeing to stop the post-'surge' drawdown in Iraq, Defense secretary keeps pressure on the service.

Rift threatens U.S. antidote to Al Qaeda in Iraq Growing divisions among pro-US Sunni tribal chiefs threatens to unravel American gains against Al Qaeda.

CFR Wisner: Russian Opposition to Kosovo Independence ‘Unbelievably Regrettable’

After Kosovo Secedes

DT Russia in nuclear threat against Ukraine Russia will target the Ukraine with nuclear warheads if the former Soviet republic joins Nato and accepts the deployment of US anti-missile defences on its territory.

McClatchy U.S. scrambled jets as Russian bomber neared carrier A Russian bomber flew at low altitude over a U.S. carrier battle group that was conducting exercises in international waters near Japan last weekend, the first time that such a low pass has taken place since the Cold War ended, U.S. military officials said Tuesday

Jerusalem Post PA official: J'lem talks taking place 'on and under table' PA J'lem affairs advisor to 'Post': There will be no Israeli control over east J'lem, talks also addressing Arab claims in west J'lem

Ha’aretz PM: Major progress with PA possible on borders PM says issue of Palestinian state's borders should be solved first as it is simplest of three 'core issues'.

Fatah undergoing democratic reform to compete with Hamas Reorganization could reduce fraud, result in first West Bank, Gaza leadership elections since 1989

Pause Means US Iraq Force Larger for Longer

Is U.S. underestimating strength of Iraq's Mahdi Army?

Iraq: Sunni Groups Vie For Control Of Western Region

Financial Times Why Putin’s rule threatens both Russia and the westIn place of erstwhile hopes for the emergence of a democracy, we have proto-fascism: aggrieved nationalism; bullying of smaller nations; a cult of the strong leader; suspicion of enemies within; and resentment of foreigners, writes Martin Wolf

A strategy to save Afghanistan Paddy Ashdown’s plan to stabilise the country

Kremlin celebrates Gazprom’s power Until the Kremlin lets go of Gazprom’s reins, it will not be a commercial enterprise charging market prices and guaranteeing supplies to customers

Reformist cleric refuses to budge

It is unusual in Iran for a well-known cleric to establish a political party. It is even rarer that a turbaned politician would do so after a s erious failure

Transcript of interview with Mehdi Karroubi

Zbig heads for Syria
Obama's advance man. NYSun.

Analysis: Nearly 30 years of Islamic rule By CLAUDE SALHANI (UPI) -- Monday marks the 29th year since the Islamic revolution overthrew the monarchy. What has been achieved in those 29 years as Iran tries to export its revolution?

WSJ Iranians Scheme to Elude Sanctions Tough sanctions haven't brought Iran to its knees, but they're complicating how businesses finance operations, pay bills and ship exports. The restrictions have also had unintended consequences: They are strengthening business ties between Iran and some of its neighbors.

USIP Briefing: Lebanon's Deadly Political Stalemate

Islam, law and finance: the elusive divine , Fred Halliday

William Arkin Pause in Iraq Doesn't Harm Afghanistan War

EDM DOES MOSCOW BACK ARMENIA’S EMBATTLED LEADERS?

Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner: Foreign Policy Forecast

H2 BBC Kurdistan: A state in the making? Trouble brewing
Have Kurds gone too far in dictating the future of the new Iraq?

Yedioth Ahronoth Turkey urged to buy arms Defense Minister Ehud Barak meets with Turkish counterpart Vecdi Gonul in Ankara, calls on Muslim country to purchase more weapons from Israel, work to influence Jewish state's foes for sake of Middle East stability

Barak discusses Syria, satellite sale in Ankara

"The Kurdistan Region: Invest in the Future" The 194-page publication provides a detailed, sweeping guide to the politics, culture and investment opportunities available in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and includes a directory that contains a useful series of economic data, travel tips as well as contact information for organizations interested in operating in the region

US start a new approach against PKK - Hürriyet

İsrail’den 10 insansız hava aracı alıyoruz

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Israel may sell Turkey an Ofek spy satellite ...

Turkish diplomat: Ankara may deliver message from Assad to Barak
Ha'aretz,

Barak: Türkiye bölgede daha çok rol oynasın

Barak urges Turkey to buy arms, curb Israel's foes

Israel's Barak in Turkey to discuss defence cooperation

ABD Genelkurmay İkinci Başkanı Ankara'da

Barak urges Turkey to buy arms, curb Israel's foes Ynetnews

FT View of the day: Turkish lira

Norman Podhoretz Goldberg Vituperations “What’s a Kurd, anyway?”

[Fbis] OSC: OSC Report: Turkey -- Secular Media React With Restraint to Headscarf Vote

COMMENT: Insecure secularism —Ijaz Hussain Daily Times

Küresel çağda türban yasağı modernleşmeye engel AYDA ELNECCAR

COLUMN: Turkey moves forward in lifting the ban on head scarves

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Kurds’ Frustration With Leaders Grows
Institute for War and Peace Reporting

BBC Trouble brewing
Have Kurds gone too far in dictating the future of the new Iraq?

EDM KURDISH PARTY PRESENTS DEFENSE, WARNS OF CIVIL WAR

Resettlement of Kurds in Azeri Lands Part of "Great Kurdistan" Plan - Paper

'Ergenekon'un 'en tepedeki adamı' kim?'

Karayılan'ın korumasını öldürdüğü iddia edildi

09:30 Bakan Gönül: Operasayonlarda Israil'den kiralanan uçakların çok yararı oldu

Zebari: Türkiye'nin operasyonları bölge halkı için tehdit oluşturmuyor

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Gerçekte, PKK tek kişi için, yani Öcalan için var

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Başkan Barzani, Türkmen heyeti kabul etti

Iraqi Kurdish Corruption, Human Rights Media Report 29 Jan to 12 Feb 08

Iraqi Kurdistan Islamic Group to Launch Satellite TV Channel

PKK'ya Al Capone kıskacı

Military Bases in North East Iraq

NDI-Sponsored Forum Advances Political Process In Kirkuk

Iraqi Kurds court investors, not just oil
United Press International

Karayılan ölümden böyle kurtuldu

Bölücü terör örgütü elebaşısı Murat Karayılan, TSK'dan ölümcül bir test sayesinde kurtuldu

Türbancılarla urgancılar bir arada

"Halep'te kahvaltı Şam'da yemek" İmralı yolunu açtı

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 12 Feb 08

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights - Arabic 12 Feb 08

In pictures Turks' views on easing of headscarf ban

Karayılan'ın koruması öldürüldü mü?

Mesud Barzani Türkmenlere seslendi

Erbil'de Türkmen Kongresi yapıldı

Turkish Premier, Israeli Minister Discuss Relations, Middle East Peace

Iranian Official Says Flow of Natural Gas to Turkey Not Stable

Azeri President Says Turkish Envoy Helped Develop Relations

Archbishop of Kirkuk: Iraqi Christians Remain Strong in Faith

04:00 Erdoğan'dan Gazze uyarısı

Ankara'da Mossad krizi

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Üçlü zirve olmayacak

German Politician Questions Usefulness of EU Membership Talks With Turkey

Poll Shows Two-Thirds of Germans Oppose Turkey's EU Membership

Avusturya'da camiye yasak

'Hollanda'da İslam karşıtlığı tırmanıyor'

Sadi Somuncuoğlu 2008 "AB reform yılı"ymış!.. Aldatılan kim?

Batı Trakya Türkleri Vakıflar Yasası'na tepkili

Avrupa'da Türk imajını Umberto Eco belirleyecek

Türkiye'ye açılan 3 dava karara bağlandı

Amanda Akçakoca Nabucco: Keeping the dream alive

'Fehriye' için heyet

Turkey Joins EU Competitiveness, Innovation Programme

Türkiye hizaya getiriliyor

UN Delegation to Visit Cyprus, Greece, Turkey

Zealous French mayor accuses Turkish consulate of provocation

EU energy coordinator to press Turkey on Nabucco

Armenia Sees No Reason for "Turkey to Keep Borders Closed"

White House press Release| Nuclear partnership with Turkey Message to the Congress of the United States

Adada üç aday tek sorun var

Turkish Cyprus says it's not a ‘crime haven'

OSCE chief holding talks in Ankara

Turkish Minister to Attend EU - Black Sea Meeting in Ukraine

Armenian Presidential Candidate Sees No Benefit in NATO Accession Plans

Lagendijk: Pandora'nın kutusunu açtılar

Serbia: Kosovo Speaker, Turkish Envoy View Relations

Soros, Türkiye'nin imajına el attı

Turkey revenged on France for its position on the so-called Armenian genocide and EU membership

Turkey keeps northern Cyprus basketball alive - Turkish Daily News Feb 12, 2008

Merkel's party warns Turkey of meddling in Germany's internal affairs

German Politicians Criticize Turkish Premier's Call for Turkish Schools

Ermenileri hastalık öldürdü

Turkish Authorities Foil Bombing

'Hayal'i yakalatma teklifim reddedildi'

Dink family lawyer questions fairness of trial

More Than 300,000 Illegal Migrants Intercepted in Turkey in Five Years

Turkey's diehard smokers vow to defy ban

Yağış gelmezse Eylül'de barajlarda su kalmayacak

Turkey revives nuclear power plans

Turkey to build first nuclear plant on Mediterranean coast: minister - Hürriyet

Diyarbakırlı sosyolog Nobel’e aday gösterildi

Erkekler bu yıl Kara Harp’e başvurabilecek

Gazeteciler Katar'dan Genelkurmay'ı neden aradılar

Dünyaca ünlü gezi dergisinde 116 sayfalık Türkiye eki

Uyuşturucuyla mücadele için Meclis Araştırma Komisyonu

13 Şubat 2008 Basın Özeti

H3 Beyaz çarşafla yola çıktık

Cengiz Çandar Strateji tartışmak, Kerkük konuşmak

'Ergenekon'un 'en tepedeki adamı' kim?'

M. Ali BİRAND MHP, AKP'ye istediğini yaptırabiliyor...

Bahçeli de doğruladı

Mustafa Karaalioğlu ‘Türban karşıtı Ergenekon’un üç darbe girişimi

Şamil Tayyar Türban neyi örtüyor?

Murat Yetkin - 'Bir kısım medya' mı?

Ergenekon’a doçent imzalı iç savaş bildirisi

Taha AKYOL Çankaya ve türban

Ahmet Taşgetiren MHP, ek 17’nci madde ve sınırlar

Ruşen Çakır| Tehlikede olan laiklik değil demokrasi

Ali Bayramoğlu: Koşullu özgürlükçüleri anlamıyorum…

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Kürşat Bumin: 'Üçüncü yaklaşım'

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Taha Kıvanç: Kim kimi öldürecek?

Ertuğrul Özkök Meğer o cümle ciddiymiş

Ahmet Hakan Ne susarsın türbanlı kalem

Cüneyt Ülsever Başbakan’a çağrı!

Mensur Akgün Davutoğlu'yla dünya turu

ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ - Kendine liberal!

Muhalif basına öfke

Telefon açmış ama rüşvet teklif etmemiş

Türban karşıtı imza sayısı 5 bin 325'i buldu

Scarf freedom raises reform impatience

Kafalar karıştı

Peçeyi önlemek için ek madde şart

Üniversitede türban sıkıntısı derinleşiyor

Hasan CEMAL Demokrasi oyununu kuralına göre oynamanın önemi...

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

Fehmi Koru: Böyle lâiklik olmaz

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

İbrahim Karagül: Başörtüsü ve zorbalık: Bunlar çıldırmış olmalı!

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Hakan Albayrak: Böylesine ağır bir azınlık zorbalığı…

İsmet Berkan - Kanunla neyi yasaklayacağız?

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Türker Alkan - Allah göstermesin!

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Haluk Şahin - Başbakan ve medya

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

M.Ali Kışlalı - Tepkilere devam öğüdü

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Avni Özgürel - Vatan elden gidiyor çetesi! (3)

MEHMET KAMIŞ - Burası Türkiye, buradan çıkış yok

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

MUSTAFA ÜNAL - Beyaz çarşaf

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

A. TURAN ALKAN - Memleketi kurtarmaklığım engellenemez!

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

ALİ BULAÇ - Özgür ve sivil eğitim

NİHAL B. KARACA - Seküler AKP, kutb-u azam CHP

AKP Çankaya'yı bölmüyor

Mustafa Akyol ‘Şimdi türbanın sırası mıydı?’

Türban ve özgürlük-1
MAHMUT MUTMAN

Turkey’s test of democracy, from Ergenekon to the headscarf

Ece TEMELKURAN Nalıncı keseri demokrasisi

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi Şimdi üzülüyorlar

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Barlas Türbandan ürkenlerin de iktidarı olmayı başarmak meselesi...

301’i Köşk halledecek

Biz STK’yız, devletin ne düşündüğü vız gelir

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Aktif muhalefetin zamanıdır

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Sağduyu zamanı

Gülay Göktürk Devletin itibarına önem veriyorsanız

İsmail Küçükkaya Söylemler sertleşiyor...

Türban libarelleri de böldü

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Özkök'ten Erdoğan'a yanıt

Nuray Başaran Kadın özgürlüğü mü dediniz?

Bomb found before Ankara rally tied to Ergenekon

Mehmet Altan Piyasanın türbanı...

Nasuhi Güngör Devlet Bahçeli ve özgürlükler

Eser Karakaş Vakıflar kanunu ve ırkçılık

Gül: We should see differences as our treasure

Bilal Çetin Gerilim siyaseti...

Cengiz Aktar Türban sonrası siyaset ve toplum

Mehmet Tezkan

AKP, MHP’yi mi dinleyecek yoksa AKPCİ yazarları mı?

MUHARREM SARIKAYA "Çene altı" düğüm de değişiyor

ERDAL ŞAFAKKorkunun panzehiri

ERGUN BABAHAN Milliyetçi Cephe ve bölünme

EMRE AKÖZ'Çeneyi' bırakın: Kimliğini ispatlayan kampusa girer!

Umur Talu Bana kankanı söyle...

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN Modernlik ve türban

NAZLI ILICAKLozan deliniyor mu?

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT Söz Anayasa Mahkemesi'nde

İdam sehpası gösteren nasıl demokrat olur

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Borsada milyar dolarlık yabancı satışının anlamı ne?

Ercan Kumcu Bu parayla cenneti yaşamadan cehennemi görürüz

Asaf Savaş Akat Benim enflasyonum ne olmuş?

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Ocak ayı mali disiplini olumlu ama...

Metin MÜNİR Her Türk ekonomik krizi tadacaktır

Erdal Sağlam

Turkey finds there's danger in unrestrained economic growth

İ.Hüseyin Yıldız Ekonomi ne zaman gündeme oturacak?

Turkish coal power privatisation bill sent to PM | Deals | Mergers & Acquisitions | Reuters

Metin Ercan - e-ticaretin yükselişi

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Uğur Gürses - Vasata razı olmak!

İBRAHİM KAHVECİ İşte bu tehlikeli durumdur!

Siyaset ve ekonomi
Mustafa Aysan

IMF ile yedinci gözden geçirmenin tamamlanması Mart'a kalıyor

04:00 Yergin: 2008'de sektörden umutluyuz

Sanayi alarm veriyor, ama ön planda siyasi hareketler var

H4 New York Times News Analysis: With a Surge in Momentum, Obama Makes His Case

Editorial Unnecessary Harm The trials of six detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will proceed under deeply flawed procedures that violate this country’s basic fairness
Editorial Putin Strengthens His Legacy Restoring political and economic stability in Russia does not justify the setbacks to the rule of law and the systematic hounding of rivals and critics.

Obama and McCain Sweep 3 Primaries Barack Obama extended his winning streak over Hillary Rodham Clinton, while John McCain succeeded in countering recent victories by Mike Huckabee.

Totally Spent By ROBERT B. REICH The only way to keep the economy going over the long run is to increase the wages of the bottom two-thirds of Americans

Senate Votes for Expansion of Spy Powers The vote, a major victory for the White House, would also give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in a program of warrantless eavesdropping.

Australia Says NATO Needs New Strategy in Afghanistan

Presidents Resolve Ukraine Gas Dispute

U.N. Weighs a Ban on Weapons in Space, but U.S. Still Objects

Warmth for Americans in Once Hostile Tehran

Spielberg Drops Out as Adviser to Beijing Olympics in Dispute Over Darfur Conflict

MAUREEN DOWD A Flawed Feminist Test As a possible first Madame President, Hillary Clinton is a flawed science experiment because you can’t take Bill Clinton out of the equation.

Buffett Offers Aid on Bonds, but at a Price The billionaire investor made clear that his offer of a lifeline to three insurance companies battered by the subprime crisis would not come cheap.

H5 Washington Post In Iraq, Don't Force the Issue By Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates A new agreement between Iraqis and U.S. forces is necessary. Congress should let the administration negotiate it.

Editorial Good Sense on Iraq At last, a Bush administration defense secretary listens to his commanders

Editorial The 9/11 Trials Their fairness should be indisputable. That's not likely under the current military commission system.

Cracks in Clinton Coalition May Signal a Turning Point

Senate Authorizes Broad Expansion Of Surveillance Act

Putin Threatens Ukraine On NATO

Russian Raises Issue Of U.S. Missile Shield

Russian Warplane Flies Over U.S. Carrier

Israel to Add Homes in East Jerusalem

Palestinians Say Plans for Disputed Area Represent a Threat to Peace Talks

'No Change' From Israel, Fayyad Says

Palestinian Cites Settlements, Roadblocks

The Fight Over the War By Michael Gerson, In Afghanistan, NATO is either winning slowly or losing slowly -- it is hard to tell which.

The Numbers Racket By Robert J. Samuelson The only way President Bush could balance the budget would be by not following President Bush's policies.

The Democrats' Undemocratic System

By Ruth Marcus Superdelegates could be bad for both Democrats and democracy.

White House Pushes Waterboarding Rationale Administration May Be Trying to Shore Up Prosecution of Terrorism Suspects

Don't Let '08 Be Like '68 By Harold Meyerson, In a battle among core Democratic constituencies for the future of the party, the only winner would be John McCain.

Panel Cites Drop in U.S. Attention to Nuclear Arsenal B-52's 2007 Flight With Warheads Prompted Review

Pakistan Launches Search For Missing Envoy to Kabul

H6 Guardian Unanswered questions

Leader: Miliband is either brave or foolhardy to say Iraq and Afghanistan shouldn't cloud the moral imperative to intervene

This zeal for intervention is imperialism in new clothes Simon Jenkins: The foreign secretary speaks as part of a political generation with no experience of war and little sense of history

Legal challenge to 9/11 tribunals

Civil rights lawyers to fight decision to try al-Qaida suspects at Guantánamo military tribunal

Smoke, mirrors and American justice

Victoria Brittain: Six key Guantánamo detainees are to undergo trial by military commission. But having been tortured, how can they expect a fair trial?

Autocracy on the march Simon Tisdall

Control of election machinery, political violence, censorship and outright fraud: all can have a role in 'managing' democracy

General Motors to axe 70% of American workforce General Motors to make 74,000 US workers redundant after $38.7bn (£19.7bn) loss in 2007

Action man hits the buffers Jonathan Fenby: France sorely needed Nicolas Sarkozy's energy when he became president last year. But it has been severely dissipated by his desire for populism

We didn't stop that war, but may have stopped the next

Andrew Murray: Five years ago, the biggest political protest in our history served to explode the myth of public apathy

Obama sweeps Potomac primaries

Barack Obama becomes frontrunner for Democratic nomination after wins in three more primaries

Michael Tomasky: Hillary in dangerous territory

Clinton heads for Texas to shore up crucial Latino vote amid signs of dip in support

Religious right turn Tim Watkin US elections 2008: Evangelicals aren't the conservatives they used to be, and many now care more about poverty and peace than abortion and gay marriage

CBS journalists kidnapped by gang of masked men in Basra

Putin threat to Ukraine over Nato bid

President says Russia could target missiles at neighbour if US missile shield deployed there

The archbishop adapts to survive

Andrew Copson It's no surprise that Rowan Williams wants other religions to be accorded the same sense of privilege as the Church of England

Miliband's contradiction in terms

Brendan O'Neill The foreign secretary's narcissistic new mission to 'spread democracy' around the globe will make people even less free

Shouldering responsibility

Philip Honour: In the run-up to the Olympics, and as an emerging world power, China must stand by its obligations in Darfur

H7

Zbig heads for Syria
Obama's advance man. NYSun.

Iran's Defense Spending Per Capita Among Lowest in Mideast

Analysis: Nearly 30 years of Islamic rule By CLAUDE SALHANI (UPI) -- Monday marks the 29th year since the Islamic revolution overthrew the monarchy. What has been achieved in those 29 years as Iran tries to export its revolution?

WSJ Iranians Scheme to Elude Sanctions Tough sanctions haven't brought Iran to its knees, but they're complicating how businesses finance operations, pay bills and ship exports. The restrictions have also had unintended consequences: They are strengthening business ties between Iran and some of its neighbors.

Al Awsat Consequences of a Nuclear Middle East : Huda al Husseini

Lebanon: The Only Option Left is War : Tariq Alhomayed

IRAN: Traditional conservatives to win Majlis election

Asia Times Iraq's broken pieces don't fit together
About 4.5 million Iraqis (or one of every six) are either refugees in another country or internally displaced persons. This massive brain drain of professional, technical and managerial skills - in three main "surges" since the 2003 invasion - deprives Iraq of its most precious resource for repairing the damage of war and occupation, most notably in the oil and other key industries. - Michael Schwartz

The cat's pause US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in a tough spot. Caught between an Iraq-obsessed president unwilling to jeopardize a semblance of security and the US military establishment which thinks US troops are dangerously overstretched - what's a Pentagon chief to do? Defer, that's what, and risk turning the military into a "hollow force". - Jim Lobe

Iraq's Tribal System Is Vital for National Stability By: Jaber Aljaberi | The Daily Star In the history of Iraq, presidents and occupying powers alike have sought to minimize or eradicate the role of the tribes. None succeeded. Until 1958 when the monarchy was disbanded, tribal law ruled the land.

Arab League endorses limits on satellite channels

Daily Star The Federal Reserve is peddling a debt delusion
By Thomas I. Palley

Confronting Iran? by Jonathan Power

Arab TV stations to face curbs
Arab ministers meeting in Cairo agree to allow "offensive" satellite TV channels to face punishment

Venezuela-Iran oil deal raises concern (By Steve Hirsch)

US-Iran Relations in Holding Pattern - Baltimore Sun editorial

Battle to Restore Order Could Hurt NATO - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial

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

Pause Means US Iraq Force Larger for Longer

Is U.S. underestimating strength of Iraq's Mahdi Army?

Iraq: Sunni Groups Vie For Control Of Western Region

Parliament may be dissolved The speaker of Iraq's fragmented parliament threatened yesterday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust that it appears unable to adopt the budget or agree on a law setting a date for provincial elections

Iraq's Speaker Threatens to Disband Parliament Over Budget

Iraq Confident Iranian Leader Will Visit in March

Sadr Keeps Them Guessing Over Cease-Fire Renewal

Sadr Yet to Decide on Militia Truce

[Fbis] OSC: Al-Sharqiyah Roundup: Al-Sadr Trend Member Calls for Dissolving Parliament

[Fbis] OSC: Al-Sharqiyah Interviews Iraqi Officials on 'Differences' Between Al-Maliki, IISC

[Fbis] OSC: Syria News: One Person Killed in Damascus Car Explosion; Official Media Silent

Iraqi Finance Minister Visits Jordan; Discusses Debts, Oil Exports

BBC Monitoring Weekly Roundup of Iraqi Press 5-12 Feb 08

Iranian Provincial Press Menu (Publications to 10 February 08)

Public hangings
Rights groups condemn Iran's rising number of executions

Daily Star More divisiveness can only render a disservice to Hariri's legacy

Dissolve the Palestinian Authority
By Rami G. Khouri

H9 Ha’aretz PM: Major progress with PA possible on borders PM says issue of Palestinian state's borders should be solved first as it is simplest of three 'core issues'.

Fatah undergoing democratic reform to compete with Hamas Reorganization could reduce fraud, result in first West Bank, Gaza leadership elections since 1989

Barak says ministerial calls for action in Gaza are 'dangerous' Visiting Turkey, defense minister says military action, when it comes, 'won't be one-day or two-day operation

Obama is gaining momentum - also among Jews

Majadele: New Arab city will bolster our sense of belonging

Sderot as Stalingrad - Bradley Burston

Jerusalem Post PA official: J'lem talks taking place 'on and under table' PA J'lem affairs advisor to 'Post': There will be no Israeli control over east J'lem, talks also addressing Arab claims in west J'lem

'Israeli security needs must be met' PA Prime Minister Fayad talks to 'Post' during Washington visit to bolster Palestinian position.

Analysis: Germany's economic relations with the mullahs
The open secret that Germany is supporting the Iranian economy presents a host of problems for Olmert.

Genetics and the Jewish identity

What the studies cannot tell us is who is a Jew.

Why I support Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Britain's encounter with Islamic law

[ DANIEL PIPES

AIPAC and divestment[ THEODORE DEUTCH

Yedioth Ahronoth

The Palestinian Census - Smoke and Mirrors - Yoram Ettinger
In contrast with the figures reported for the 2007 Palestinian census, the number of Arabs in the West Bank is 1.5 million, not 2.3 million, and the number of Gaza Arabs is 1.1 million, not 1.5 million. While the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics contends a 30% population growth during the last ten years, the World Bank documents a substantial erosion of the Palestinian fertility rate and a significant escalation of emigration. Israel's Border Police and European observers have documented net Palestinian emigration of 12,000 in 2004, 16,000 in 2005, and 25,000 in 2006, with expectation of a significant rise in 2007. The 1997-2003 average annual net emigration was over 10,000.
The actual population west of the Jordan River - without Gaza - shows a Jewish majority of 67%, compared with a 33% Jewish minority in 1947, including Gaza. (Ynet News-Hebrew/IMRA)

Israeli minister plans Arab city
Israel's Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit says he wants to build a new Arab city in the north of Israel.

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

For an assault on Gaza
Robert O. Freedman, MESH

Winograd: The BBC outlines mixed Israeli media reaction to the Winograd Commission report assessing how the Israeli government handled the 2006 war with Lebanon.

DEBKAfile: Israeli generals impatient with government foot-dragging on Gaza operation

H10 Christian Science Monitor

With Gates's shift on drawdowns, little reprieve ahead for U.S. Army in Iraq In agreeing to stop the post-'surge' drawdown in Iraq, Defense secretary keeps pressure on the service.

Rift threatens U.S. antidote to Al Qaeda in Iraq Growing divisions among pro-US Sunni tribal chiefs threatens to unravel American gains against Al Qaeda.

Pakistan's political future? It's all in the family. Three political clans introduce the next generation of leaders.

China's economic growth can soften U.S. slump Emerging economies are now big enough to help but not save Western giants.

Hungary's anti-Roma militia grows

Targeting the criminal activity of the country's minority Roma population, the Magyar Garda style themselves protectors of ethnic Hungarians.

ASIA

Pakistan at crossroads
GulfNews - By Amir Taheri

Pakistani nuclear scientists 'abducted'

The Growing Military-Industrial Complex in Asia by John Feffer and Tom Engelhardt

A New Course for the U.S. and Pakistan By: Frederick Barton | The Boston Globe As Pakistan faces two near-term crises, parliamentary elections on Feb. 18 and increasing extremist violence, the United States has an opportunity to build a new and constructive relationship with the country.

Spielberg walks out on Beijing games Film director resigns as artistic adviser to 2008 Olympics in protest at 'ongoing crimes' in Darfur

Patents: The Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that China authorized 30 percent more patents in 2007 than in 2006 as part of an effort to liberalize its patent policy.

‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India
Source: Institute for the Study of Labor

Russia and India edge closer to multi-billion dollar major nuke deal

South Asia's Democratic Gambit By: Chietigj Bajpaee | Asia Times
From Bhutan to Bangladesh, South Asian nations are betting that political unrest can be resolved by general elections. But regional politics still favor dynasties over democracy, and patronage continues to outweigh policies and platforms.

Reza Aslan and Kenneth Ballen: PAKISTANI PUBLIC OPINION TURNS AGAINST AL-QAIDA AS ELECTION APPROACHES

H11 IHT Danish police say arrests foiled plot to kill Muhammad cartoonistTwo Tunisians and a Dane were arrested in an alleged plot to kill a cartoonist behind the caricatures that sparked fury two years ago.

Ukraine and Russia end dispute over gas
President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin of Russia resolved a dispute on Tuesday over the price and terms of supply for natural gas.

EUROPE European press review

Walker's World: Shariah for Europe?

Islam, Britain (By Helle Dale)

SPIEGEL ONLINE Interview with Jyllands-Posten Editor: 'I Don't Fear for My Life'

Can Kosovo survive on its own?

EU Warned Against Turning Kosovo Into a 'Protectorate' By: Elitsa Vucheva | EU Observer With Kosovo set to declare independence on Sunday (17 February) and the EU expected to send a police and civilian mission there shortly, a well-known Balkans analyst has warned the 27-nation bloc against turning the province into an EU "protectorate", whose self-governing powers would be almost non-existent.

Deutsche-Welle reports on Kosovo’s economic prospects should the Serbian province declare itself independent in the very near future, as it is widely expected to do. The article says Kosovo would have to rely heavily on coal deposits but questions whether that can sustain its population.

Emerging nation
Kosovo has uphill struggle to fulfil independence dream

Newspapers defy fanatics to support artist Denmark’s main newspapers take provocative step to reprint cartoon by Westergaard which triggered riots in 2005

Romania/Moldova: Bucharest Has 'Moral Duty' To Help Moldova's EU Ties

Russia Issues New Warning Over Kosovo Independence

H12 RFE/RLNo Checks, Little Balance President Putin has said Russia could redirect its missiles to target Ukraine if Kyiv joined NATO. According to RFE/RL guest authors Christopher Walker and Robert Orttung, that kind of talk is representative of an increasingly truculent foreign policy, which goes largely unchallenged by Russia's political elite.

Russia: Putinism's Impact On The Neighbors

Russia in nuclear threat against Ukraine Russia will target the Ukraine with nuclear warheads if the former Soviet republic joins Nato and accepts the deployment of US anti-missile defences on its territory.

U.S. scrambled jets as Russian bomber neared carrier A Russian bomber flew at low altitude over a U.S. carrier battle group that was conducting exercises in international waters near Japan last weekend, the first time that such a low pass has taken place since the Cold War ended, U.S. military officials said Tuesday

Hayk Kotanjian: Azerbaijan: Anti-democratism and colonialism in the perspective of regional security

EDM MOSCOW LOSES BRAZIL SUBMARINE DEAL TO PARIS


- DOES MOSCOW BACK ARMENIA’S EMBATTLED LEADERS?

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Boston Globe Editorial The afterlife of Putinism

Armenia's Western Evolution By: Alexandros Peterson | The Moscow Times The atmosphere in this frigid city is not as dynamic as in Baku or as vibrant as in Tbilisi, but talk around Republic Square is filled with unguarded enthusiasm theses days.

Armenia’s Presidential Election: The View from Baku In Azerbaijan, official or public interest in Armenia’s upcoming presidential election is minimal. Few in Baku see the impending political transition in Yerevan as having much of an impact on efforts to break the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations stalemate.

US Aid Budget to Eurasia: A Monument to "Inter-Agency Pettiness" Aid for almost every country in the former Soviet Union will be falling in 2008, under the current foreign affairs budget released by the US State Department. Much of the planned US assistance will go toward helping independent-minded states in the region resist Russian efforts to reassert its dominance in the Caspian Basin and elsewhere. Even so, some Washington experts lament the drop-off in aid, and describe the dwindling budgets in recent years as "monuments to weak analysis, inter-agency pettiness, and trite bureaucratic formuli."

Kazakhstan to Investors: Increasing the State’s Role in Energy Development is the "Main Dimension" of Government Policy Nazarbayev used his state-of-the-nation address to confirm Kazakhstan’s new-found assertiveness in energy policy. He also indicated that, over the near term, the government will strive to strengthen the country’s relatively weak social safety net.

Armenian President Names Deputy Police Chief

Freedom and fear: a Russian paradox OPTIMISM is not an attitude one would expect these days from a human rights activist in Russia - not when, after rigged parliamentary elections in December, the country is in the middle of an even more farcical presidential "race"; not when media censorship is back and peaceful protesters are beaten and detained. (By Cathy Young, Boston Globe)

Putin-3 Source: Russian Outlook (American Enterprise Institute)

A review of The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West by Edward Lucas (and more and more).

[Fbis] OSC: Gazprom CEO says Ukraine receiving Russian gas, explains new arrangements

Russia in Ukraine missile threat

Russia says it may target missiles at Ukraine if it joins Nato and deploys the US missile defence shield

Putin 'will attend Nato summit'

Q&A: US missile defence

[Fbis] OSC: FYI -- Iran Revolution Rally: Ahmadinezhad Says No Withdrawal From Nuclear Rights

Google News Azerbaijan

Putin's Torture Colonies By: Bret Stephens | The Wall Street Journal
While they can't compare to the Gulag in terms of scope or percentage of innocent prisoners, pytochnye kolonii are fast approaching it in terms of sheer cruelty.

Gas Talks Come Down to The Wire By: Miriam Elder | The Moscow Times Emergency talks between Gazprom and Ukraine failed to resolve a simmering debt dispute Monday as the possibility of a mid-winter shut-off of gas supplies to the country inched closer.

Russian Aviation Overflies Its Limits By: Vasily Golovin | Kommersant
Tokyo made an official protest to Moscow on Saturday, accusing the Russian Air Force of violating Japan's airspace. The scandal broke out at the same time as Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin was meeting in Tokyo with his colleagues from industrially developed countries.

Putin Warns Against "Immoral" Western Interference By: Pavel K. Baev | Eurasia Daly Monitor
Putin’s urge to make this “strategic” speech remains unexplained, as most of its content, including the portrayal of the 1990s as the decade of chaos and the praise for the strong economic growth of the last eight years, was recycled from many previous presentations.

[Fbis] OSC: OSC Analysis: Ukraine Leadership's NATO Ambitions Alarm Opposition, Russians

H13 The Times The world sees America in the dock

From the start, Guantanamo has been a disaster. Sympathy for the US has dissolved Bronwen Maddox

Feeding Frenzy Expensive food will make economic slowdowns a lot harder to manage

Obama wins Virginia in crushing blow to Clinton

Police search for Pakistan envoy

The apparent abduction of the Ambassador to Afghanistan highlights the risks Pakistan faces as it prepares for elections

Russia and Ukraine reach deal in gas disputeThe breakthrough came after four hours of talks between presidents of both states, and minutes before Gazprom deadline

Wall Street Journal

Assessing the GOP's Chances By Fred Barnes
Yes, Democrats have momentum. But John McCain appeals to the swing voter.

Time for Sovereign Wealth Rules
By Evan Bayh
If the U.S. government started amassing shares no one would hesitate to call it socialism.

The Phenom
In Senator Barack Obama, Democrats find liberation from the fear that only a Clinton can beat the Republicans. Review & Outlook

Obama's Wiretap Votes
His vote to punish private companies that had "acted in good faith" says something about the Senator's national security world view. Review & Outlook

Greenhouse Affect
Ethanol exacerbates global warming. Whoops.
Review & Outlook

That 'Stimulus' Nonsense
By Arthur Laffer
What are we producing when we rob Peter to pay Paul?

Toleration and Islamic Law By: David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey | The Wall Street Journal
An issue is fast reaching a boiling point in Britain and other Western countries with increasingly assertive Muslim communities is whether a modern democracy house more than one legal system, even on a limited basis, and remain a democracy as we have come to understand that term over the past two centuries?

H14 Financial Times Why Putin’s rule threatens both Russia and the westIn place of erstwhile hopes for the emergence of a democracy, we have proto-fascism: aggrieved nationalism; bullying of smaller nations; a cult of the strong leader; suspicion of enemies within; and resentment of foreigners, writes Martin Wolf

A strategy to save Afghanistan Paddy Ashdown’s plan to stabilise the country

Kremlin celebrates Gazprom’s power Until the Kremlin lets go of Gazprom’s reins, it will not be a commercial enterprise charging market prices and guaranteeing supplies to customers

Reformist cleric refuses to budge

It is unusual in Iran for a well-known cleric to establish a political party. It is even rarer that a turbaned politician would do so after a s erious failure

Transcript of interview with Mehdi Karroubi

Iraq to consider reviving Saddam-era oil deal Iraq’s foreign minister said that Baghdad will consider reviving oil deals with Russian firms signed under the regime of deposed president Saddam Hussein

Israel defies critics to build in Jerusalem In a move that is likely to darken the prospects of the peace talks, the Israeli government plans to build more than 1,000 new Jewish homes in and around East Jerusalem

Putin to take Russian message to Nato The Russian president is to attend a Nato summit in Bucharest in April, the first time he has accepted an invitation from the defence alliance since 2002

US pushes EU to shut down Iranian banks The plan to take steps against Banks Saderat and Melli would build on a UN Security Council resolution that the US and the EU hope to push through this month

EU ministers wary of carbon tariffsFinance ministers stopped short of threatening carbon tariffs to defend domestic companies supposedly vulnerable to rivals in countries with lower environmental standards

WORLD NEWS: Britain sees 'mission' to spread democracy

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Many will agree that Europe does not deserve Blair

WORLD NEWS: Bush scores victory on wiretap law

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Subprime chains Rather than impose cumbersome rules, regulators should work through the incentives of the banks and brokers involved to prevent another credit squeeze

Russia breaks ties with gas middleman Russia and Ukraine agreed to cut out a controversial Swiss-registered trading company at the heart of a dispute between the two nations

London to penalise gas guzzlers London is to make the most controversial change to its congestion charge scheme after the mayor decided to charge high-polluting vehicles up to £25 a day

American companies are falling behind in technology Bob Suh on how new systems boost productivity

Bankers, like gangs, just get carried away John Kay explores the impact of group behaviour

Obama and McCain score triple victories Barack Obama easily won all three Potomac primaries, bringing his eighth consecutive win over Hillary Clinton since Super Tuesday and adding to the mounting view that the Democratic presidential nomination could be slipping away from her

Analysis: Clinton looks to Texas and Ohio The outcome was widely forecast. But Hillary Clinton’s overwhelming defeat to Barack Obama in Tuesday night’s ‘Potomac primaries’ nevertheless stung badly and intensifies pressure on her to do something – anything – to forestall the Democratic nomination from slipping out of her grasp

Analysis: McCain shifts focus to November

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H15 Los Angeles Times Serbia prepares to reject, in advance, Kosovo declaration for statehood

Pentagon assessing Russian flyover

The campaign's true colorsJonah Goldberg: Obama can win blacks and he can win whites; he just can't win blacks and whites.

9/11 suspects may face death penalty

Editorial Out of order Evidence obtained through waterboarding would taint the 9/11 trials -- and our nation

Pakistani militant's reputation grows Baitullah Mahsud is blamed for Bhutto's assassination, but his power may be greatly exaggerated.

Pakistan elections to test president's might By Laura King

As voting nears, polls indicate that Musharraf's party could face a thrashing even as allies point to solid support

Israel plans to build in East Jerusalem Palestinians say the peace talks will be hurt by the move, which appears aimed at appeasing a religious bloc of Olmert's coalition government

H16 American Politics

Obama, McCain sweep Virginia, Maryland, D.C.

Big night for Obama, McCain

The conservative revolt over McCain In November, many GOP voters may stay home – or even vote Democratic.

Obama sweeps Potomac primary

Clinton's options narrow

Why Hillary Will Lose

Can Clinton Overcome Obama Wins?

Clinton's Deputy Campaign Manager Steps Aside

Analysis: Facing losses, Clinton recasts

ANALYSIS: In Virginia, White Men Boost Obama; Conservatives Drive GOP

McCain: 'Anyone Who Worries About How Long We're In Iraq Does Not Understand The Military'

Winning the Edwards Vote

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

The Maverick Myth

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

From Der Spiegel, an article on the three myths of the US election campaign.

Huckabee: Republicans deserve a choice There's no Senate bid or third-party race in his future, Huckabee says at Monitor Breakfast.

H17 Daily Telegraph Kosovo's Serbs face a bleak future As Kosovo looks likely to soon come under UN supervision, Thomas Harding finds a city where a spiked mountain capped by an old Serb castle acts as a redoubt to the province's dispossessed and fearful Serbs

Russia in nuclear threat against Ukraine

Russia will target the Ukraine with nuclear warheads if the former Soviet republic joins Nato and accepts the deployment of US anti-missile defences on its territory.

Miliband's case for democracy

Although the Foreign Secretary's keystone statement on the future direction of the Government's foreign policy evaded the issue of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, its wider message is well-judged.

Miliband risks US row over 9/11 trials David Miliband has risked a diplomatic row with Washington by admitting Britain has "concerns" about the US plan to try terrorist suspects before military tribunals.

Anxiety of Queen over sharia law controversy The Queen is distressed by the row over Islamic law which she fears threatens to damage the Church of England.

H18 Independent The £30,000 question: Will proposed tax on britain's super-rich really force them to leave the country?

Momentum gathers for Obama as voters turn out in strength

Even the rich are revolting as Republicans abandon GOP

The Big Question: Has the congestion charge been effective in reducing London's traffic?

Miliband 'concerned' by Guantanamo trial

David Miliband has admitted that Britain has "some concerns" about the move by the United States military to bring charges against six men suspected of orchestrating the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.

Buffett offers $800bn bond lifeline

Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor fêted as the "Oracle of Omaha", has emerged as a key player in negotiations to restore order to the municipal bond market in the US, a vital source of funds for US local government and a key plank of the financial system that has been threatened by the credit crisis

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Study: U.S. lacks counterinsurgency skill (UPI) -- A study commissioned by the Department of Defense says that U.S. capabilities for counterinsurgency are "seriously deficient and out of balance."

Russia, China propose arms ban in space (By John Zarocostas and Nicholas Kralev)

Cyberterrorism, Inc By: Peter Buxbaum | ISN Security Watch
A new report says that 2008 will see an expansion of economic espionage in which nation-states and companies will use cybertheft of data to gain economic advantage in multinational deals.

The Man on Both Sides of Air War Debate

Iraq Update Briefings

Fair trial pledge to 9/11 accused

The US says Guantanamo inmates will be tried fairly over 9/11 but some groups criticise the use of military tribunals.

Profile: Charged suspects

Valerie Plame Wilson Describes Sibel Edmonds Disclosures as ‘Stunning’

Our economic dominance may be threatened by China, India, and the European Union, but when it comes to the instruments of war, nobody else is even close.

Lockheed to Build Massive Biometric Database

Air Force: $144 Billion a Year Not Enough

America At Risk (PDF; 119 KB)
Source: Democratic Caucus, U.S. House of Representatives

Analysis: Bush's plan for clearance reform (UPI) -- President Bush wants a plan from his top officials for a complete overhaul of the way the U.S. government does background checks and grants security clearances for employees and contractors who need access to classified information.

Through the military, a path to citizenship

ONE OF THE glaring missed opportunities of George W. Bush's presidency was his failure to begin rebuilding the US military immediately after 9/11. At that hour of national solidarity and resolve, the president should have called for expanding the armed forces that had been so sharply reduced during the holiday from history that followed the end of the Cold War. ... (By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe)

H20 Slate

Creating Better Communities: A Study of Social Capital Creation in Four Communities
The Benevolent Society

Do Biofuels Hurt the Planet?

True scale of CO2 emissions from shipping revealed Scale of climate change emissions from shipping is nearly three times higher than previously believed, says leaked UN report

New Era Dawns for Rail Building

For the first time in nearly a century, railroads are making large investments in their networks. Their campaign is altering the corridors of American commerce, more so than any other development since interstate highways spread to the interior.

H21

When Kissinger Met the Bloggers

Aesop gave us hare and tortoise,wolf in sheep’s clothing, the lion’s share, sour grapes, squeaky wheels, and more. Do we really know him?... more»

Your average journo would sooner take a pay cut than read a communication scholars book: a calculation of lesser pain... more»

An excerpt from Fear of Enemies and Collective Action by Ioannis D. Evrigenis.

A review of Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience by Carl F. Craver.

US whites to lose their majority by 2050

Japanese men shout the oft-unsaid: 'I love you'

The Japan Aisaika ("Devoted Husbands") Organization wants men to view marriage as a relationship, not a status.

Internet helps Americans save more energy every year

For every kilowatt-hour of power that Internet-linked computers use, they save at least 10 times that amount, a recent study finds.

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ABD'nin Irak'taki Seçenekleri Ocak 2007
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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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