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New York Times Obama Ponders Outreach to Elements of the Taliban In an interview with The Times, President Obama opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to elements of the Taliban. Complete Transcript and Audio of Interview | Excerpts

ROGER COHEN Middle East Reality Check Hamas and Hezbollah are now seen throughout the Arab world as legitimate resistance movements without whose involvement regional peace is impossible.

· A New NATO Bargain BY: RONALD D. ASMUS | The Wall Street Journal NATO is currently divided on two central issues. One is about finding the right balance between maintaining security on the European continent and fighting expeditionary missions in places like Afghanistan.

WHY OBAMA'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN ARE A WASTE OF TIME New York Post - By AMIR TAHERI

Ha’aretz Yossi Melman: Israel has failed in bid to halt Iran nuke program Remark that Iran crossed 'technological threshold' by MI chief means one thing: Everything is now up to Tehran

Washington Post The Clock Is Ticking on Settling With Iran Talk with Iran? Then Move Fast - By David Ignatius, There's wide support, in principle, for a process of "engagement" between the United States and its adversaries in the Middle East. The Obama administration says that it wants to talk, and so do Iranian and Syrian officials. But then the complications begin.

U.S. to Withdraw 12,000 Troops From Iraq by September Announcement of drawdown marks the first step in Obama administration's plan to pull U.S. combat forces out of the country by August 2010.

Managing Missile Defense's Demise Next Europe | Don't relegate Central Europe to the role of useful idiot in some cunning U.S.-Russian plot.

Bridge to Tehran Better Relations Are Within Reach -- If Both Sides Make the Effort By Mohammad Hassan Khani, Tehran and Washington must try to resolve their disputes.

Obama's Bushian Foreign Policy By Robert Kagan, Despite the hype, American foreign policy hasn't changed much.

Georgia, a Nation Stalled On Road to Democracy

Nearly four years after Bush hailed the country as a "beacon of liberty," it is neither the authoritarian state it once was nor the democracy it promised to become.

Ignatius: The World's Ending? Buy Dollars

Foreign Affairs Center Stage for the Twenty-first Century

by Robert D. Kaplan Already the world's preeminent energy and trade interstate seaway, the Indian Ocean will matter even more as India and China enter into a dynamic great-power rivalry in these waters.

Listen to this essay on CFR.org »

Free at Last? by Bernard Lewis The future of the Arab world will depend on the outcome of a battle between those advocating Islamic theocracy and those seeking to establish liberal democracy.

Reshaping the World Order

by Brooks & Wohlforth The current architecture of international institutions must be updated, but skeptics question whether the United States is up to the task. They need not worry: Washington still possesses enough power and legitimacy to spearhead reform.

Jerusalem Post 'Iran crossed nuclear tech threshold'

MI chief says Teheran hopes to exploit dialogue with West to advance toward production of A-bomb.

Sex, Drugs and Islam - Spengler
Iran is dying. The collapse of Iran's birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. An analysis of the 2006 Iran census shows a fertility level of 1.9 for the whole country and 1.5 for the Tehran area. In 1980, the fertility rate in rural areas was 8.4 while that of urban areas was 5.6. It seems that a spiritual decay has overcome Iran, despite the best efforts of a totalitarian theocracy. Popular morale has deteriorated much faster than in the "decadent" West against which the Khomeini revolution was directed. In addition, with oil at barely one-fifth of its 2008 peak price, they will run out of money some time in late 2009 or early 2010.

Come Home, NATO? The Atlantic Alliance’s New Strategic Concept DIIS This 30-page Danish Report provides an overview of the political and military issues that are likely to shape the coming discussions about NATO’s new Strategic Concept

WSJ Diplomacy 'Reset' Worries U.S. Allies Smaller U.S. allies are cautioning the Obama administration against pushing to engage countries like Russia, Iran and Syria.

No Difference Between Hillary and Condi - Tony Karon, The National

Financial Times A failure to control the animal spirits The idea that unfettered, unregulated capitalism would invariably produce the good outcomes was a wrong economic theory regarding how capitalist societies behave and what causes their crises, writes Robert Shiller

A survival plan for global capitalism If spats over minutiae were to stand in the way of a deal, the verdict of history would be damning. Electorates are unlikely to be more forgiving. The task now is simple: end this brutal recession

Martin Wolf Seeds of its own destruction The era of free-wheeling finance is over, but its consequences will stretch further

An L of a recession – reform is the way out Wolfgang Münchau with a pre-G20 summit warning

Why Obama’s left leaning is no tactical feint Clive Crook on the US president’s politics

Liberalisation sews its own destruction The era of free-wheeling finance is over. But the current crisis could have consequences that stretch much further

Iran says open to US meeting offer Iran has said it wil consider an invitation from its old foe the United States to attend a meeting on Afghanistan and that it was ready to help its neighbour as it battles a growing Taliban insurgency

US officials find ‘common ground’ in Syria The United States wants to see ‘forward momentum’ on peace talks between Syria and Israel and believes Syria could help Middle East stability, a US official said after high-level talks in Damascus

Plunging assets cost $50,000bn Falls in the value of financial assets worldwide may have reached more than $50,000bn, equivalent to a year’s global economic output, warns the Asian Development Bank

A professor’s bold thinking on terrorism Louise Richardson, a specialist on the subject, was pushed into the public arena with her controversial approach to terrorists, whom she says are people ‘like you and me’

Palestinian prime minister resigns Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said he intended to resign by the end of March in a move that could help bolster unity talks between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions

Finance: Servant or Deceiver?

A very European critique of a process of ‘financialisation’ of the economy that has sown distrust, generated supervision costs and made co-operation, creativity and long-term commitment almost impossible

Brookings Mapping the Money: An Interactive Map of the G-20 Stimulus Plans

Restoring Leadership in the Middle East: A Regional Approach to Peace

Foreign Policy The List: Sick Men of Europe

Christian Science Monitor Resignation tests hope for Palestinian unity government But Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's surprise move, some say, could pressure Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas to reach an agreement in Cairo

Drawdown in Iraq begins: 12,000 troops to return by fall The two combat brigades that would have replaced them will go to Afghanistan instead.

NYT Dreaming of Splitting the Taliban By HELENE COOPER Should the United States seek to negotiate with some of the same people who gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden before 9/11?

A Rising Dollar Lifts the U.S. but Adds to the Crisis Abroad As American investors and foreign central banks flock to safe investments like Treasury bills, poorer countries are having a harder time raising money.

The Times Military may have to step in If order breaks down in Pakistan then some form of army intervention may be on the cards

Talking to the Taleban

Any reassessment of the war in Afghanistan must focus also on Pakistan

'We will topple al-Bashir if the UN doesn't' 7,000-strong rebel group vows to take its 'Toyota war' to Sudan's capital if the international community refuses to act

'World is heading for a resources war' Scientists warn that preventing a rise in world temperatures is unlikely, even with heavy cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

Israel's Top Priority Is Not Iran; It's Palestine by Matthew Yglesias

Ha’aretz U.S. turns up heat on Israel over West Bank settlements

MI chief: Iran has crossed 'technological threshold' in quest for nukes Iran's Fars News Agency reports that Iran test-fires new air-to-surface missiles.

Window of opportunity Reconciliation is not only in the interest of Fatah and Hamas. This also represents a new opportunity for Israel to void its 2006 decision to boycott the previous Palestinian unity government.

Carnegie European Conflict Management in the Middle East: Toward a More Effective Approach

Guardian How free is speech? Ian Buruma: The proper limits of free expression must be constantly tested, contested, and renegotiated

How to fail to recover the economy Joseph Stiglitz: America provides important lessons to countries around the world facing increasing problems with their banks

Obama to bring Cuba in from the cold US president poised to offer olive branch in effort to repair country's tattered reputation in Latin America

CRS Iran’s Ballistic Missile Programs: An Overview

Stanley Foundation
· On Reforming the International Order

Guardian US to pull 12,000 troops out of Iraq within months

Officials also confirm that Britain's remaining 4,000 troops in the country would leave by the end of July

How free is speech? Ian Buruma: The proper limits of free expression must be constantly tested, contested, and renegotiated

How to fail to recover the economy Joseph Stiglitz: America provides important lessons to countries around the world facing increasing problems with their banks

Syria's Journey Back From the Cold BY: Ian Black | The Guardian Obama's commitment to improving relations with Syria could change the way US Midde East policy is heading.

Assad purges Syrian security services ahead of new bid for Beirut

· Warefare Balance Sheet BY: Michael O'Hanlon | The Washington Times In recent days President Obama has begun to clarify his intentions on how to prosecute the wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan.

· America Must Accept Iran as an Equal PartnerBY: Sadegh Kharrazi | Financial Times It has been three decades since political ties between Iran and the US were severed and during this time we have seen both co-operation and confrontation. The present situation, however, cannot secure the two sides’ interests and their national security.

CFR · A Costly Exit from Iraq

Newsweek Pulled From All Sides Owen Matthews The economic crisis is starting to help Russia gain power in its near abroad. The West is fighting back.

CRS Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Security Issues and Implications for U.S. Interests

The last days of the oligarchs? The men who saw themselves as the Carnegies and Rockefellers of Russia may soon be thrown into the dustbin of history.

H2 The New Wave of Foreign Policy Activism in Turkey DIIS This 40-page Danish report investigates continuities and ruptures in Turkish foreign policy, with special reference to Europeanization

Joint Statement by Turkey and the United States of America on the Occasion of the Visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Upon the Invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of

FT Obama visit to bolster ties with Turkey Barack Obama will visit Turkey next month, making what is likely to be his first appearance in a Muslim country since his inauguration as US president

Washington Post Obama Trip to Include Turkey Visit Non-Arab Muslim Nation Is Central to Diplomatic Approach Toward Islamic World -- President Obama will visit Turkey at the end of his European trip next month, a decision that reflects the moderate Muslim nation's central place in his emerging diplomatic approach to the Islamic world.

Obama'nın antidepresan ziyareti

Obama in Turkey!

Yasemin Çongar Barack Obama geliyor, çünkü...

ÖMER TAŞPINAR
Obama neden geliyor?

What's the Matter with Turkey? - Joshua Walker, Foreign Policy

Turkey warms to Clinton's candor Christian Science Monitor

Was it TV magic or intelligent diplomacy? A month before Obama's visit, Hillary charms Turkey in a talk- show stop.

NYT Nearly a Million Genocide Victims, Covered in a Cloak of Amnesia For generations, most Turks knew nothing of the details of the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1918, when more than a million Armenians were killed as the Ottoman Turk government purged the population.

NYT Obama Visit to Turkey Will Not Include Major Speech

Interview With Mehmet Ali Birand of Kanal D TV US Department of State

DIPLOMATIC MEMO; In Mideast, Clinton Turns Up the Caution

WSJ Defending the Christian Faith The battle over an ancient Christian monastery in Turkey is testing the country's tolerance of minorities.

Obama’s April 24 speech still poses ‘risk,’ says Turkish FM Babacan

Turkey says US understands its sensitivities over the Armenian claims

Turkey reaping fruits of new foreign policy

Barack Obama visit puts Turkey at center stage in US policy

Obama says ’Yes we can’ to Turkey

Turkey claims 375 PKK 'casualties'

Obama Turkey visit to focus on Iraq, Afghanistan

Turkish FM: Turkey trying to ease U.S.-Iran tension Ali Babacan makes comments after meeting Hillary Clinton and before leaving for Tehran

Turkey would consider mediating between Iran, US

On Clinton's Travels,
A Duality in Style
In contrast to "listening tour" of Asia, U.S. secretary of state is more diplomatically active on her trip to the Mideast, engineering an effort to reach out to nations, especially those the Bush administration spurned.
Clinton Rolls Out Foreign Policy Approach In Trip

Remarks With Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan US Department of State

Turkey warn Obama against 'genocide' recognition

Obama Plans to Visit NATO Ally Turkey, Clinton Says

Obama's trip next month to include stop in Turkey | McClatchy Washington Bureau

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Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak BBC Monitoring Inter-national

Turkey claims 375 PKK 'casualties'

Turkish Mosque Holds First Official Kurdish Sermon

KRG.org Interview with US State Department official in Erbil
Kurdistan Regional Government

An early projection for the elections in Diyarbakir and Batman

Cevdet Aşkın

Turkey ready to renew Israel-Syria track Jerusalem Post

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık

Celebrating International Women's Day - Hillary Clinton, Today's Zaman

New era started in Turkish-US relations, Turkey's foreign minister

TBMM Heyeti Washington'dan İyimser Ayrılıyor

Turkey, US joint statement stresses close cooperation

CRS Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues

Turkey’s Relations with Armenia and the Impact of the Armenian Diaspora

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

Ottoman Medals to Admiral Nelson

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Video NTV CNNTürk Milliyet

Cengiz Çandar

Ahmet Taşgetiren

Ruşen - Çakır

Taha Akyol

Fikret Bila

Hasan Cemal

Murat Yetkin

İsmet Berkan

Fehmi Koru

Taha Kıvanç

Şamil Tayyar

Ali Bayramoğlu

Yasemin Çongar

Ertuğrul Özkök

Hasan Ünal

Ahmet Hakan

M Ali Birand

Cüneyt Ülsever

Enis Berberoğlu

Oktay Ekşi

Özdemir İnce

Mehmet Y Yılmaz

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

ERDAL ŞAFAK

ENGİN ARDIÇ

ERGUN BABAHAN

EMRE AKÖZ

Umur Talu

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

NAZLI ILICAK

MEHMET BARLAS

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

YAVUZ DONAT

Ekonomi

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu

Erdal Sağlam

H4 New York Times Obama Ponders Outreach to Elements of the Taliban In an interview with The Times, President Obama opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to elements of the Taliban. Complete Transcript and Audio of Interview | Excerpts

ROGER COHEN Middle East Reality Check Hamas and Hezbollah are now seen throughout the Arab world as legitimate resistance movements without whose involvement regional peace is impossible.

Dreaming of Splitting the Taliban By HELENE COOPER Should the United States seek to negotiate with some of the same people who gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden before 9/11?

A Rising Dollar Lifts the U.S. but Adds to the Crisis Abroad As American investors and foreign central banks flock to safe investments like Treasury bills, poorer countries are having a harder time raising money.

PAUL KRUGMAN Behind the Curve The Obama administration’s economic policy is already falling behind the curve, and there’s a real, growing danger that it will never catch up.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The Inflection Is Near? What if the crisis of 2008 represents something more fundamental than a recession, and 2008 was when we hit the wall — when Mother Nature and the market both said: “No more.”

Premier Quits to Help Unify Palestinians

6 Years In, Troops Glimpse Real Path Out of Iraq

Disrepair in South Ossetia Dims Hopes After Georgia War

News Analysis: Sarkozy Embraces NATO, and Bigger Role for France

U.S. and British Forces in Iraq Are Reduced

Drone Crash in Pakistan Reported

Diplomatic Memo: In Mideast, Clinton Turns Up the Caution

Iraqi Surveys Start to Unveil the Mental Scars of War, Especially Among Women

Afghan Leader Deflects Talk of Future

Generation OMG

By KATE ZERNIKE What will become of the youth shaped by what some are already calling the Great Recession?

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Watching Darfuris Die President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is preparing to kill people en masse, not with machetes but by withholding the aid that keeps them alive.

Subprime Europe

By LIAQUAT AHAMED Losses on subprime mortgages in the United States have already caused a Depression-like banking collapse. Well, believe it or not, Europe’s current crisis is scarier.

World Bank Says Global Economy Will Shrink in '09

MAUREEN DOWD Should Michelle Cover Up? Let’s face it: The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama’s sculpted biceps

President’s Political Protector Is Ever Close at Hand David Axelrod’s political advice carries more weight than most anyone else’s on President Obama’s payroll.

Irish Assault Raises Specter of Brutal Days Politicians said the shootings Saturday had the earmarks of a bid by dissidents to destabilize the government.

Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers The fate of lawyers who wrote secret opinions about presidential power is now the subject of a lively debate.

Editorial A Start on Health Care Reform President Obama’s proposals, for all of their ambition, do not fully answer how to cover uninsured Americans, and how to reform the health care system to reduce costs and improve the quality of care.

Saudis Race All Night, Fueled by Boredom Drag racing may be the most popular sport of Saudi youth, an obsessive, semilegal competition that dominates their weekend nights.

The President Is on the Line to Follow Up on Socialism

Army Developing Teams for Electronic Warfare

Obama Is Leaving Some Stem Cell Issues to Congress

While lifting restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research, President Obama is avoiding the question of whether tax dollars should be used to experiment on embryos themselves.

H5 Washington Post The Clock Is Ticking on Settling With Iran By David Ignatius, There's wide support, in principle, for a process of "engagement" between the United States and its adversaries in the Middle East. The Obama administration says that it wants to talk, and so do Iranian and Syrian officials. But then the complications begin.

12,000 U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq First Step Toward Full Pullout Announced; Baghdad Bombing Kills 28 Announcement of drawdown marks the first step in Obama administration's plan to pull U.S. combat forces out of the country by August 2010.

U.S. Downturn Dragging World Into Recession

Report Says Global Economy Will Shrink for First Time Since 1940s

Obama's Double Talk By Robert J. Samuelson, He should conduct a candid conversation about the role of government.

Bridge to Tehran Better Relations Are Within Reach -- If Both Sides Make the Effort

By Mohammad Hassan Khani, Tehran and Washington must try to resolve their disputes.

President Obama -- When Bolder Is Better

By E.J. Dionne Jr., The president has no choice but to be bold.

Obama's Bushian Foreign Policy By Robert Kagan, Despite the hype, American foreign policy hasn't changed much.

Managing Missile Defense's Demise Next Europe | Don't relegate Central Europe to the role of useful idiot in some cunning U.S.-Russian plot.

Ignatius: The World's Ending? Buy Dollars

Palestinian Authority's Premier to Step Down

Parallels Between Obama and Bush By Jackson Diehl, The president hasn't strayed far from Karl Rove's playbook

Senate Probe of Economic Crisis Needed By Byron Dorgan and John McCain More than $9 trillion -- in taxpayer dollars -- has been pledged, committed, lent or spent by the federal government in response to the economic crisis. Some say that if the economy continues to deteriorate, trillions more might be necessary to prevent another Great Depression.

The President's Mr. Fix-It Hits the Road Biden Takes a High-Wire Act to Brussels By Jim Hoagland, Heading off a diplomatic train wreck at NATO headquarters is on the list of urgent tasks that take Vice President Biden to Europe this week for the second time in a month. High-level jet lag is one consequence of having an administration that is all generals and no sergeants.

In "Great Powers," Thomas P.M. Barnett promotes a new foreign policy strategy.

By Foreign Policy Review GREAT POWERS America and the World After Bush By Thomas P.M. Barnett

Experts Warn of Troops' Loss of Logistical Support The U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq will create a shortage of helicopters and logistics support that high-level officials worry will hamper the elite U.S. troops who stay behind to train Iraqi forces and to combat terrorist networks, according to experts studying the problem.

Georgia, a Nation Stalled On the Road to Democracy Fragility Is Norm for States in Transition

U.S. Troops Face a Tangle Of Goals in Afghanistan

Clinton's Travels Reveal Duality in Approach Unlike Straight Talk in Asia Trip, Caution Rules Mideast and Europe Visits

Karzai Agrees to Delay Afghan Presidential Election

Book Review: 'Kill Khalid' by Paul McGeough KILL KHALID The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas By Paul McGeough

In Iran, a Hall of Mirrors

By Steve Inskeep, Page B03

Why the shrine of Imam Reza is Iran's most prized place

How to Create Future Readers

By Andrew Alexander Ombudsman, How newspapers can cultivate future readers.

Former U.S. Detainee Alleges British Complicity in Torture

British Complicity In Torture Alleged

What's the Big Idea -- Prisoner Release By John Pomfret

Should states free inmates in order to balance their budgets?

Responsibility By Michael D. Shear,

It's Barack Obama's favorite word. It's his rallying cry. His slam. His credo. But will the nation get tired of it?

They're Taking Their Brains and Going Home When smart young foreigners leave these shores, they take with them the seeds of tomorrow's innovation.

Editorial Soaking the Rich?

Experts weigh in on President Obama's proposed tax increases.

OUTSPOKEN: A Conversation With James K. Glassman James K. Glassman, co-author, of 'Dow 36,000' discusses why the title of his book continues to haunt him.

Mixed Marriages Decline as Immigrants' Children Seek Similar Partners

More Young Adults Are Seeking Partners of Same Ethnicity

H6 Guardian US to pull 12,000 troops out of Iraq within months

Officials also confirm that Britain's remaining 4,000 troops in the country would leave by the end of July

How free is speech? Ian Buruma: The proper limits of free expression must be constantly tested, contested, and renegotiated

How to fail to recover the economy Joseph Stiglitz: America provides important lessons to countries around the world facing increasing problems with their banks

Syria's Journey Back From the Cold BY: Ian Black | The Guardian Obama's commitment to improving relations with Syria could change the way US Midde East policy is heading.

The politics of assassination Mohanad Hage Ali: Will the UN's special court bring a new era of accountability for political killings in Lebanon?

Asking the big questions

Editorial: The government has yet to set out a positive vision for the kind of economy it wants to come out of the crash

Insanely out of balance, the Republicans are all set to fail

Michael Tomasky: The conservatives who now dominate the party of the American right may come to rue losing their moderate wing

Obama bid to turn to moderate Taliban 'will fail' Co-opting fighters unlikely to succeed under Hamid Karzai's government, Afghan opposition warns

Peace under attack

Editorial: The Northern Ireland peace process is strong enough to resist this grotesque attempt to destroy it

'The war is over' - Ulster unites to condemn killers

Senior Sinn Féin figures declare support for police as hunt for rebel gunmen begins

Czech leader joins climate deniers

Meeting entitled Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis? aims to confront scientific establishment

Cocaine causes crime surge

Guardian investigation yields bleak picture of war on drugs in Latin America, on eve of summit

Obama to lift restrictions on funding stem cell research

The Observer · · Prime minister announces resignation Departure of Palestine's Salam Fayyad could pave way for power-sharing deal between moderates and militants

· Karzai agrees to delay elections until August Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai has agreed to postpone the country's presidential elections

· US army 'had opportunities to grab Mladic' Fugitive Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic shadowed for five months after Serbian conflict ended, claims historian

Two killed as terror returns to Northern Ireland Two soldiers die and four men are injured in drive-by attack on a military base in Antrim

Oba">Obama to bring Cuba in from the cold US president poised to offer olive branch in effort to repair country's tattered reputation in Latin America

Printing money is right

Will Hutton: Recessions don't go on for ever, and this one's already nine months old

Russia paves way for US nuclear deal Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov insists on new treaty as first step to mending countries' relation

Lahore faces a frightening future Residents of Lahore fear religious violence that blights other regions is taking root in their own

· Wahhabi radicals are determined to destroy a gentler, kinder Islam Fundamentalism has advanced so quickly in Pakistan partly due to Saudis financing the building of so many madrasas

· Obama at least didn't treat Brown like a lame duck Andrew Rawnsley: The prime minister hopes that the success of his Washington trip will convince the G20 that he's not in the departure lounge yet

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Assad purges Syrian security services ahead of new bid for Beirut

· Warefare Balance Sheet BY: Michael O'Hanlon | The Washington Times In recent days President Obama has begun to clarify his intentions on how to prosecute the wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan.

· America Must Accept Iran as an Equal PartnerBY: Sadegh Kharrazi | Financial Times It has been three decades since political ties between Iran and the US were severed and during this time we have seen both co-operation and confrontation. The present situation, however, cannot secure the two sides’ interests and their national security.

CFR · A Costly Exit from Iraq

CRS Iran’s Influence in Iraq

Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses

The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War Stewart M. Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations; Presider: Warren Bass, Deputy Editor, Outlook, Washington Post

U.S.-Iraq Relationship--Where is it Headed? BY: Jon Haron-Feiertag | Diplomatic Courier

Daily Star The region cannot afford to squander new opportunities for engagement

US alternatives to sanctions and threats By Rami G. Khouri

Afghanistan and Iraq: good war, bad war? Speaker: Lakhdar Brahimi. Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor

More on The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman.

· The Syria Temptation -- And Why Obama Must Resist It BY: Bret Stephens | Commentary A peace deal between Syria and Israel is all but impossible, despite the assurances of experts who should know better.

· Syria's Journey Back From the Cold BY: Ian Black | The Guardian Obama's commitment to improving relations with Syria could change the way US Midde East policy is heading.

Talking to Syria: An Important Test for Damascus - Andrew J. Tabler (New York Times-Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Why Obama Should Lift the Cuba Embargo - Richard Haass, Newsweek

Geopolitical Diary: Change in U.S. Foreign Policy

Sex, Drugs and Islam - Spengler
Iran is dying. The collapse of Iran's birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. An analysis of the 2006 Iran census shows a fertility level of 1.9 for the whole country and 1.5 for the Tehran area. In 1980, the fertility rate in rural areas was 8.4 while that of urban areas was 5.6. It seems that a spiritual decay has overcome Iran, despite the best efforts of a totalitarian theocracy. Popular morale has deteriorated much faster than in the "decadent" West against which the Khomeini revolution was directed. In addition, with oil at barely one-fifth of its 2008 peak price, they will run out of money some time in late 2009 or early 2010.


What's the Matter with Turkey? - Joshua Walker, Foreign Policy

Syria Is the Mideast Key - Claude Salhani, Washington Times


US Alternatives to Sanctions and Threats - Rami Khouri, Daily Star


No Difference Between Hillary and Condi - Tony Karon, The National

Personal and Political in the Mideast - Michael Totten, MichaelTotten.com

Think Twice on Bashir

Paul Stares and Alexander Noyes

Throwing Sudan's president in jail would bring a measure of justice. It would also be a disaster for Darfur.

Whisper it ... America is beginning to move James Zogby : The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Middle East trip was striking, by any measure.

Iran: Tehran Still an Important Player in Iraq BY: Kamal Nazer Yasin | Eurasianet

· What Should Obam Do About Darfur? BY: Alex Wolfe | The New Republic One conclusion we might reach from the decision of the International Criminal Court is that it is about time America joined it.

Will Iran Cooperate on Afghanistan? - Tony Karon, Time

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· U.S. Strategy Regarding Iran [March 5, 2009]


· Iranian Political and Nuclear Realities and U.S. Policy Options [March 3, 2009]

Obama Pulls Out of Iraq, Polemically - Austin Bay, RealClearWorld

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· IMF: Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? | World Politics Review What a difference an economic crisis makes. As American and European credit markets froze up this fall, investors in need of cash began pulling their money out of emerging markets, essentially outsourcing the liquidity crisis. The result? Once again, the IMF has a mission, and it has not hesitated to act upon it.

The WINEP-Weenies' Insane Iran Advice by Gordon Prather

US Diplomatic Overture to Syria Unlikely to Narrow Gulf of Differences
Council on Foreign Relations

Iran's Students: US's Hidden Ally - Ryan Mauro, Pajamas Media

Iran's Students: US's Hidden Ally - Ryan Mauro, Pajamas Media

AL Awsat What Has Islam Got to Do with Al-Bashir? : Tariq Alhomayed

The Dangers of Striking Deals with Radicals and Defiant Ones Raghida Dergham

Biden: old-school vice president, more Mondale than Cheney

· Chas of Arabia BY: Rich Lowry | National Review President Obama is about to put Chas Freeman -- a blinkered ideologue — in the most important intelligence-analysis job in the U.S. government.

Leaving Baghdad

by Christopher Preble

We should thank the Iraqi parliament—not President Obama—for setting a timetable to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.

A Free Man?

by Jacob Heilbrunn

Is Chas Freeman an honest patriot or a Saudi stooge? Either way, he’s become a proxy for a wider battle over our Middle East policy.

The Costly Grand Bargain by The National Interest Making concessions to Russia in order to get cooperation on Iran is a bad idea.

· Building Walls WIth U.S. Trading Partners BY: Edward L. Glaeser | The Boston Globe Democracy is bolstered by prosperity and damaged by downturns. Since the pioneering work of Martin Lipset 50 years ago, social scientists have tried to understand why democracies and wealth go together.

CRS + Iraq: U.S. Regime Change Efforts and Post-War Governance

Iraq: Post-Saddam National Elections

ICG The ICC Indictment of Bashir: A Turning Point for Sudan?

Gaffes and gains Clinton's efforts to build on goodwill towards US

Expansion of LNG threatens gas glut

Projects due to come on stream this year

Islam Should Prove It's a Religion of Peace By Tawfik Hamid
Muslims can start with better Quranic scholarship.

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

U.S. To Cut Iraq Troop Strength By 12, 000

12,000 U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq

First Step Toward Full Pullout Announced; Baghdad Bombing Kills 28 The United States will withdraw 12,000 American troops from Iraq by September, US officials have said.

6 Years In, Troops Glimpse Real Path Out of Iraq

Suicide Attack Kills 28 At Police Academy In Iraq

New US-Syria talks 'constructive'

A senior US envoy in Damascus says the first high-level contact with Syria in four years has been 'very constructive'.

Morocco: A Saudi-led Diplomatic Offensive Against Iran Morocco, likely prompted by Saudi Arabia, cut off diplomatic ties with Iran on March 6.

Show of Sunni-Shiite unity in Iraq

Sunni Arabs welcome hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims in the city of Samarra, where an attack on a Shiite shrine three years ago sparked sectarian bloodshed

Psychological toll of war extensive, Iraq studies find

· Iraq Urges Further OPEC Cuts Subscriber Content Read PreviewIraq's oil minister urged OPEC to further cut output when it meets next week, and said some countries outside the cartel have curtailed crude-oil production due to low prices.

Oil Revenues Dropping, Iraq’s Parliament Cuts the Budget

Report: Shoe hurled at Ahmadinejad in Iranian city

Iraqi Army to Get US Battle Tanks

US: Syria Can Be a Major Mideast Force

In Egypt, a village boasts the nation's first female mayor

Iran says Security Council structure must be reformed

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+ Iraq: Post-Saddam National Elections


+ Yemen: Current Conditions and U.S. Relations


+ Iran’s Economy


+ Lebanon: Background and U.S. Relations

H9 Ha’aretz U.S. turns up heat on Israel over West Bank settlements

MI chief: Iran has crossed 'technological threshold' in quest for nukes Iran's Fars News Agency reports that Iran test-fires new air-to-surface missiles.

Yossi Melman: Israel has failed in bid to halt Iran nuke program

The political game theory Our politicians' problem is not irrational behavior but a real difficulty in making decisions under conditions of uncertainty.

Window of opportunity Reconciliation is not only in the interest of Fatah and Hamas. This also represents a new opportunity for Israel to void its 2006 decision to boycott the previous Palestinian unity government.

We learned from the Palestinians We have learned well how to miss opportunities; that is what happens when you spend so much time with the Palestinians

Clinton: U.S. to push for Israel-Syria reconciliation

Gideon Levy: Devoid of hope or promise, Israel's leadership offer only fear

Akiva Eldar: Bibi has a partner in conflict management Meshal, like Netanyahu, rejected Abbas' demand to include the principle of two states for two peoples in the policy statement of a Palestinian unity government.

Salam Alaykom, Fayyad Palestinian PM's resignation could lead to Palestinian unity.

U.S. warns it won't recognize PA unity gov't sans Fayyad

Can Hamas Be Deterred? - Steven Klein (Ha'aretz)

U.S. Army document describes Israel as 'a nuclear power'

Former President Katsav to be indicted for rape

Olmert to Barak: You're negating achievements of Gaza op

World takes dim view of Lieberman in FM post Choice will almost certainly encourage U.S. to keep its distance from Netanyahu's government.

ANALYSIS / Netanyahu doesn't really want Lieberman as foreign minister

Source: Indictment will force Lieberman to quit cabinet within weeks

Report: EU Accuses Israel of 'Pursuing Illegal Annexation' of East Jerusalem

Jerusalem Post 'Iran crossed nuclear tech threshold'

MI chief says Teheran hopes to exploit dialogue with West to advance toward production of A-bomb.

Yadlin: Iran has crossed nuclear technological threshold

Intel chief says Teheran's attainment of nuclear military capability now a matter of incorporating goal of producing atomic bomb into its strategy.

Iran reportedly test-fires new missile

Local media divided over range and purpose of weapon, with some news outlets downplaying even

US Affairs: Losing the lobby on the Hill?

Hamas won't sit in Fayad-led unity gov't

Group "rejects any US interference in [Palestinian] internal affairs;" Hamas, Fatah set to begin talks.

Freeman is about "views", not "Jews"

New gov't to tackle economy, security

"100-days team" presents Netanyahu with report, recommends committee to promote Israeli Arabs.

· Talking to Hizbullah

[ HERB KEINON,

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Iran capable of making bomb'
Following US army declaration that Tehran has enough nuclear material to create atom bomb, Military Intelligence chief tells cabinet Iranians have crossed technological threshold but have yet to change their strategy

Abbas seeks reconciliation

''The faster a Fatah-Hamas gov't is formed, the faster Gaza will be rebuilt', PA president says

Can Jews live in Europe?

Daily Alert.orgHebrew Press Editorials (2008) - Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine

The Ultimate Earmark: US Military Aid to Israel by Kathleen and Bill Christison

Setback for Pro-Israel Hawks in US by Bernd Debusmann

Must Jews always see themselves as victims?

A Palestinian unity government is best for Israel By Zvi Bar'el

White House wants progress despite Fayyad departure

Book Review: 'Kill Khalid' by Paul McGeough KILL KHALID The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas By Paul McGeough

Book Review: 'Hunting Eichmann' by Neal Bascomb In "Hunting Eichmann," Neal Bascomb recounts how the Israelis captured the Nazi war criminal. By Review by Clancy Sigal, HUNTING EICHMANN How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down The World's Most Notorious Nazi By Neal Bascomb

It's Not Iran; It's Palestine

· How We Built an Ultra-Right Wing Government BY: Uri Dromi | Miami Herald Whenever my American friends used to tease me about the lousy political system we have in Israel, they would point to the many parties and factions we have here, and to the difficulty of forming a coalition government.

Ilan Pappe (Haifa): Histories and Historians in Israel & Palestine

From Tikkun, an essay on the irresponsibility of Thomas Friedman

Official: Hamas Serious in Reaching Reconciliation Deal

Christian Friends and Foes of Israel - Interview with David R. Parsons (Institute for Global Jewish Affairs)

Talking to Syria: An Important Test for Damascus - Andrew J. Tabler (New York Times-Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Netanyahu's key foreign policy staff by Steven J. Rosen

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· No. 49: The Middle East Conflict after the Gaza War

CRS U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians

Rebuilding Gaza to Raze It Again
by Uri Avnery

Israel facing challenge of mending ties with Muslim world

In Iran, Baha’i Leaders Stand Accused of Spying for Israel

Washington experts: Iran has fissile material for 50 nuclear bombs

Martin Kramer / Sandbox:
Chas Freeman and 9/11 — How important has resentment of Israel …

CRS Israel and Hamas: Conflict in Gaza (2008-2009)

US gesture lost in Russian translation

From Democratiya, a special issue on Israel/Palestine.

Can Friends of Israel Trust Obama? - Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pro-Israel Lobby Challenges Obama Nominee

The Gordian Knot of Gaza

H10 Christian Science Monitor Resignation tests hope for Palestinian unity government But Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's surprise move, some say, could pressure Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas to reach an agreement in Cairo

Drawdown in Iraq begins: 12,000 troops to return by fall The two combat brigades that would have replaced them will go to Afghanistan instead.

Turkey warms to Clinton's candor Was it TV magic or intelligent diplomacy? A month before Obama's visit, Hillary charms Turkey in a talk- show stop.

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Pakistan's tenuous gains on Taliban Past cease-fires have allowed militants to regroup, but a recent deal in Bajaur may be more durable.

The right way to talk to Iran

The first step is for Obama to reach out to Iranian Americans.

Professors could rescue newspapers A hundred years ago professors wrote for the press – free of charge.

Northern Ireland police chief: Rise in violence was anticipated Gordon Brown and Gerry Adams condemned the shootings of two British soldiers.

As big banks falter, community banks do fine Unlike banks on Wall Street, these smaller banks didn't invest in risky mortgage-backed securities or complex derivatives.

ASIA

Foreign Affairs Center Stage for the Twenty-first Century

by Robert D. Kaplan Already the world's preeminent energy and trade interstate seaway, the Indian Ocean will matter even more as India and China enter into a dynamic great-power rivalry in these waters.

Listen to this essay on CFR.org »

FT Iran says open to US meeting offer Iran has said it wil consider an invitation from its old foe the United States to attend a meeting on Afghanistan and that it was ready to help its neighbour as it battles a growing Taliban insurgency

Obama Ponders Outreach to Elements of Taliban

China's thirst for copper could hold key to Afghanistan's future In this Taliban stronghold in the mountains south of Kabul, the U.S. Army is providing the security that will enable China to exploit one of the world's largest unexploited deposits of copper, earn tens of billions of dollars and feed its voracious appetite for raw materials

Smart Power in U.S.-China Relations: A Report of the CSIS Commission on China

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief - v. 9, Issue 5

China's Expanding Peacekeeping Role: Its Significance and the Policy Implications

CRS Afghanistan: Presidential and Parliamentary Elections

India-U.S. Relations

China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States

NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance


+ China’s Currency Peg: A Summary of the Economic Issues

Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance

· Pakistan in Denial Is Its Biggest Security Obstacle BY: AZEEM IBRAHIM | Middle East Times Many Pakistanis believe that America wants the destruction of Pakistan because it is the only Muslim country with nuclear weapons, and that it is trying to enlist Pakistani help in Afghanistan only in order to trap it in a pincer movement between India and American troops there.

The Making of a Mumbai Terrorist - Aryn Baker, Time

N Korea warning ahead of exercise

North Korea warns it is ready to strike if attacked, as the US and South Korea begin a joint military exercise in the region.

Pakistan military endorses another Taliban truce — with a difference

China's Team of Rivals - Cheng Li, Foreign Policy

Reforming Pakistan's Intelligence Agencies - Carnegie Endowment


Threats, Options, Risks in Pakistan - Colin Cookman, CAP

Plunging assets cost $50,000bn Asia hit disproportionately, says Asian Development Bank

Roubini How Severely Will Asia Be Affected By the Global Recession?

Tom Barnett KnoxNews. How globalization meets Pakistan

Terrorism Monitor - v, 7, Issue 4
*A Who's Who of the Insurgency in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province: Part Two - FATA excluding North and South Waziristan by Rahimullah Yusufzai
*Assessing the Role of Hezbollah in the Gaza War and Its Regional Impact by Benedetta Berti
*The Return of Shari'a Law to Pakistan's Swat Region by Mukhtar A. Khan
*India's Home-Grown Jihadi Threat: A Profile of the Indian Mujahideen by Animesh Roul

International Relations and Security Network · Afghanistan: A Misread War


· Debating China's Future, Vol.4 No.2 Spring 2008

NKOREA WARNS INTERCEPTING 'SATELLITE' WILL PROMPT COUNTERSTRIKE

Obama's Afghan challenge How to avoid a quagmire. (Boston Globe)

Afghan president steps up political confrontation with opponents Stepping up a confrontation with his political opponents, President Hamid Karzai agreed Saturday to an August date for presidential elections but said he'll stay in office until then and not resign in favor of an interim administration.

· Pakistan Unravels BY: Najam Sethi | The Wall Street Journal President Asif Ali Zardari took office last September promising to consolidate Pakistan's democracy. Instead, as Tuesday's terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore showed, his poor political decisions are allowing the militants to gain the upper hand.

US Troops Face a Tangle of Goals in Afghanistan

Will Iran Cooperate on Afghanistan? - Tony Karon, Time

Obama’s All Action, No Strategy in Afghanistan
Daily Beast -

Pakistan Militants Shoot Down Drone

Avoid Japan's Economic Mistakes - Benjamin Powell, Washington Times

Stop making excuses for failure in Afghanistan BY MASOOD AZIZ

'The Vagrants'

By YIYUN LI Reviewed by PICO IYER Centered on the aftermath of a young woman’s execution in a desolate part of China in 1979, Yiyun Li’s grieving and unremitting first novel examines the costs and consequences of a society gone mad.First Chapter

'China Witness: Voices From a Silent Generation'

By XINRAN Reviewed by JOSHUA HAMMER A Chinese journalist coaxes reminiscences out of Cultural Revolution survivors.

'Brothers' By YU HUA Reviewed by JESS ROW A popular Chinese epic about growing up during the Cultural Revolution and chasing love and fortune in the new market economy.First Chapter Sunday Magazine: A Profile of Yu Hua

'Postcards From Tomorrow Square'

By JAMES FALLOWS Reviewed by JONATHAN SPENCE A lively collection of a dozen illuminating reports on China from the Atlantic Monthly’s James Fallows. First Chapter

· Afghan Supply Chain a Weak Point The Washington Post The U.S. military is laboring to shore up a vulnerable supply chain through Pakistan and Central Asia as it seeks to expand the flow of supplies into Afghanistan by at least 50 percent to support an influx of tens of thousands of troops, according to defense officials and experts.

North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States

Tibet Lessons By Kelley Currie
Hillary Clinton could learn something from the Bush administration: Human-rights diplomacy with China does work.

Interpol to aid Pakistan investigation of Mumbai attack

Interpol official praises Pakistan's efforts to find the plotters while chiding India for not sharing information. Pakistan has given details of bank accounts, Internet addresses and DNA samples

Winds of change swirl in Pakistan Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has backed down over two controversial moves that were widely seen as an attempt to curtail his political opponents. This can be attributed to a more assertive army chief - fresh from a visit to the United States - and an emboldened prime minister. Zardari still has room to move, but the patience of military headquarters and Washington is wearing thin. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

Comparing Afghanistan and Vietnam - Arthur Cyr, China Post


Fear and Loathing in Pakistan - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times

Afghan Leader Karzai Backs Obama's Call on Taliban

Rival strategies

India and China compete for influence in Nepal

Fear and loathing in Pakistan Doyle McManus

Gains by Islamic extremists and anti-American sentiment among its people make it a tough test for Obama

From Tricycle, a review of China's Tibet? Autonomy or Assimilation by Warren W Smith, Jr

Center for Defense Information (CDI)· Paths to Diplomacy with North Korea

National Academies Press
· 21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States: Lessons from a Decade of Change: Report of a Symposium [free download but registration required]

H11 IHT Roger Cohen: Middle East reality check The United States should follow Britain and talk to Hezbollah.

Thomas L. Friedman: The Great Disruption What if 2008 was the year when we hit the wall -- when Mother Nature and the market both said: "No More.'

The last days of the oligarchs?

Holding Bashir accountable

Any country that continues to enable Bashir should be branded as an accomplice to his many horrors.

Don't go there

By ALEXANDER LAMBSDORFF

Eight years ago the Durban Conference on human rights was turned into an anti- Western rant. Now it seems like history will repeat itself.

EUROPE European press review

The List: Sick Men of Europe

Centre for European Reform
· The Lisbon scorecard IX: How to Emerge from the Wreckage

· A New NATO Bargain BY: RONALD D. ASMUS | The Wall Street Journal NATO is currently divided on two central issues. One is about finding the right balance between maintaining security on the European continent and fighting expeditionary missions in places like Afghanistan.

NYT Subprime Europe

By LIAQUAT AHAMED Losses on subprime mortgages in the United States have already caused a Depression-like banking collapse. Well, believe it or not, Europe’s current crisis is scarier.

Troubled treaty Experts put cases for and against EU's Lisbon Treaty

· Europe's Military Injustice: Pay More and Get Killed More BY: Liam Fox | The Daily Star The cost of sending troops and military hardware around the world to provide security when and where it is needed is causing major financial headaches across Europe.

Come Home, NATO? The Atlantic Alliance’s New Strategic Concept DIIS This 30-page Danish Report provides an overview of the political and military issues that are likely to shape the coming discussions about NATO’s new Strategic Concept

Sarkozy Embraces NATO, and Bigger Role for France

Heritage Foundation
· Secretary Clinton’s European Tour: A NATO-First Agenda

CRS Long-Range Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe

NATO Enlargement: Senate Advice and Consent

EU Must Surrender to Survive - Gisela Stuart, Daily Telegraph

The Breakup?

by The National Interest

Are the best days of the U.S.-U.K. relationship behind us?


Gordon Brown Lacks a Narrative - Peter Hain, The Independent

Clinton on European charm offensive The US secretary of state conquered the hearts of Europe on Friday at a ‘town hall’ meeting where her emphasis on thoughtful diplomacy and avoidance of threatening language made her sound almost European

· Italy's Nuclear Ambitions BY: Eric Lyman | ISN Security Watch Italy's deal with France to develop nuclear power helps reverse a popular referendum while heading Europe's efforts to become more oil and gas independent.

Italy to Leverage Its Ties With Iran BY: John Phillips | The Washington Times

a review of God's Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe's Religious Crisis by Philip Jenkins

· NATO Presses 'Re-Set Button' With Russia NATO-Russia Council to resume regular meetings following hiatus in the wake of the Georgia conflict.

Islam and freedom of speech

Last month Geert Wilders (above) was invited to screen "Fitna" at Westminster, but the British government barred him from entering the country. (By Geert Wilders, Boston Globe)

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Newsweek Pulled From All Sides

Owen Matthews The economic crisis is starting to help Russia gain power in its near abroad. The West is fighting back.

CRS Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Security Issues and Implications for U.S. Interests

The last days of the oligarchs? The men who saw themselves as the Carnegies and Rockefellers of Russia may soon be thrown into the dustbin of history.

Editorial: Obama woos Putin Washington seems to be offering a deal in which plans for the missile shield in Europe would be halted in exchange for Russia putting pressure on Iran

Armenia Opposition Abandons Talk of Revolution As Ter-Petrosian distances himself from earlier radical rhetoric - now talk of coalition government in the air.

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Pressing the "Reset Button" on US-Russia Relations
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· Ukraine A Net Assessment of 16 Years of Independence: Implementation of Key Tasks and Recommendations

The Impact of the Russia-Georgia War on the South Caucasus Transportation Corridor

WP Georgia, a Nation Stalled On the Road to Democracy Fragility Is Norm for States in Transition

FT Conspiracy theorists capitalise on Russian anxiety Talk of unrest and doomsday scenarios during economic crisis aired openly for first time, with some saying the Kremlin wants fear to spread to help unite divided ruling class

Russia and US vow to conclude arms deal Hillary Clinton says she is looking forward to working with Russia on several issues, while her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov pledges that Moscow “will do everything to reach this agreement”

SIPRI South Ossetia and Abkhazia: Placing the Conflict in Context

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
· Prospects for U.S.-Russian Security Cooperation

Disrepair in enclave dims hopes after war Reconstruction is moving slowly after a war in the Georgian enclave of South Ossetia, and most of Russia's promised aid has not arrived

Mutual need

Why US-Russian relations had to improve

Peterson Institute
· 09-6: Pressing the "Reset Button" on US-Russia Relations

Russian Media Teases Clinton Over 'Reset' Button

Russian FM: Make Middle East Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone

Collapse in Eastern Europe? The Rationale for the Creation of a European Financial Stability Fund CEPS

Justice in Russia A confident Kremlin wouldn't bother with Khodorkovsky

Ukraine: Orange Fades to Black

H13 The Times Military may have to step in If order breaks down in Pakistan then some form of army intervention may be on the cards

Talking to the Taleban

Any reassessment of the war in Afghanistan must focus also on Pakistan

'We will topple al-Bashir if the UN doesn't' 7,000-strong rebel group vows to take its 'Toyota war' to Sudan's capital if the international community refuses to act

'World is heading for a resources war' Scientists warn that preventing a rise in world temperatures is unlikely, even with heavy cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

Obama says US is losing war in Afghanistan President hints at talks with Taleban in an echo of Iraq strategy after a frenetic 48 hours of US diplomacy in region

Washington has more in common with French president Nicolas Sarkozy than with Brown when it comes to trade

MI5 ‘colluded in scalpel torture’ Secret MI5 memos reveal how the service colluded in the torture of a British resident and former Guantanamo Bay prisoner

Sudan leader taunts West as crisis looms Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir addresses thousands of supporters in Darfur in defiance of warrant for his arrest

Sinn Féin tiptoes through the atrocity

This weekend's killings were a shock, but like the Omagh bombing, they won't stop political progress Paul Bew

Turn Them In

Peace and justice can still prevail in Northern Ireland, but only if its people refuse to give cover to the Massareene barracks killers

Wall Street Journal

Justice in Russia A confident Kremlin wouldn't bother with Khodorkovsky

Newsweek Calming The Bear

A Wall Street bull lays out the case for a quick recovery

The Great Destabilization - Mark Steyn, National Review Online


A Bank Nationalization Plan That Works - Joseph Stiglitz, The Nation

Roubini Says Recession May Continue Until End of 2010

CRS The U.S. Financial Crisis: The Global Dimension with Implications for U.S. Policy

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+ The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

H14 Financial Times A failure to control the animal spirits The idea that unfettered, unregulated capitalism would invariably produce the good outcomes was a wrong economic theory regarding how capitalist societies behave and what causes their crises, writes Robert Shiller

A survival plan for global capitalism If spats over minutiae were to stand in the way of a deal, the verdict of history would be damning. Electorates are unlikely to be more forgiving. The task now is simple: end this brutal recession

Martin Wolf Seeds of its own destruction The era of free-wheeling finance is over, but its consequences will stretch further

An L of a recession – reform is the way out Wolfgang Münchau with a pre-G20 summit warning

Why Obama’s left leaning is no tactical feint Clive Crook on the US president’s politics

Liberalisation sews its own destruction The era of free-wheeling finance is over. But the current crisis could have consequences that stretch much further

Iran says open to US meeting offer Iran has said it wil consider an invitation from its old foe the United States to attend a meeting on Afghanistan and that it was ready to help its neighbour as it battles a growing Taliban insurgency

US officials find ‘common ground’ in Syria The United States wants to see ‘forward momentum’ on peace talks between Syria and Israel and believes Syria could help Middle East stability, a US official said after high-level talks in Damascus

A professor’s bold thinking on terrorism Louise Richardson, a specialist on the subject, was pushed into the public arena with her controversial approach to terrorists, whom she says are people ‘like you and me’

Palestinian prime minister resigns Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said he intended to resign by the end of March in a move that could help bolster unity talks between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions

Summers calls for boost to demand

Top Obama adviser urges global effort

Conspiracy theorists capitalise on Russian anxiety Talk of unrest and doomsday scenarios during economic crisis aired openly for first time, with some saying the Kremlin wants fear to spread to help unite divided ruling class

Chevron seeks new Mid-East reserves

The second-biggest US oil company will in the next few months begin testing of a production technique that could unlock tens of billions of barrels of reserves across the Middle East

Plunging assets cost $50,000bn Falls in the value of financial assets worldwide may have reached more than $50,000bn, equivalent to a year’s global economic output, warns the Asian Development Bank

Tensions run high on Korean peninsula

US and South Korean troops began annual military drills on Monday and North Korea said it had put its armed forces on full combat readiness in response to the exercises, heightening tensions on the Korean peninsula

Republicans urge Obama to let banks fail

Key Treasury officials picked for crisis battle

India’s shrinking national parties As national elections approach, the fragmentation of the political spectrum has raised the question of whether the country is really governable from the centre – New Delhi

The double edge of dividend cuts There are times when financial prudence – or sheer corporate survival – means it is right to take the axe to payouts. But companies must act with caution

Obama woos Putin Washington seems to be offering a deal in which plans for the missile shield in Europe would be halted in exchange for Russia putting pressure on Iran

Middle Eastern cultural diplomacy

Protection by another name Christopher Caldwell examines a questionable defence of free trade

Britain deserves better financial regulation Fundamental reform needed, says James Sassoon

Tax havens fear ‘indiscriminate’ crackdown

Thirty five small states and territories launch rearguard action to fend off threats against their status and possible sanctions imposed by the US and major European economies

H15 Los Angeles Times 12,000 U.S. troops to pull out of Iraq The first phase in a plan to end combat operations will take 6 months, officials say. Meanwhile, a suicide bomber kills 33 police recruits in Baghdad.

Hillary Clinton moves quickly on diplomatic fronts The secretary of State was greeted with applause in the Middle East and Europe, but she and the administration face hard work ahead

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will resign The U.S.-trained economist secured large aid donations for the Palestinian cause. He said he was stepping down in an attempt to revive a Fatah-Hamas power-sharing deal

Senior U.S. envoys hold talks in Syria The highest-level visit in more than four years signals President Obama's new approach to the Mideast. Experts predict it will lead to restoration of full diplomatic ties with Syria.

Show of Sunni-Shiite unity in Iraq

Sunni Arabs welcome hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims in the city of Samarra, where an attack on a Shiite shrine three years ago sparked sectarian bloodshed

Hunting extremists, U.S. hits a wall Pakistan undermines U.S. efforts to learn more about the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, officials say.

Sudan's president hits the road with defiance After several days of rallies in the capital, Bashir flies to Darfur, where he rails against the international arrest warrant and plays to the crowd of thousands of supporters

Iran tests air-to-surface missile

The 1,100-pound precision missile mounted on jet fighters has a 70-mile range

Interpol to aid Pakistan investigation of Mumbai attack

Interpol official praises Pakistan's efforts to find the plotters while chiding India for not sharing information. Pakistan has given details of bank accounts, Internet addresses and DNA samples

Big plans in China for revolution's 60th anniversary The Oct. 1 festivities promise some of the dazzle of the Olympics shows. But critics fault plans for a huge military display and bring up other dates, such as the Tibet revolt and Tiananmen protests

EditorialClarifying the war on terror Obama should move away from abuses of the Bush era by adopting clear policies on four fronts.

H16 American Politics

Shields and Brooks Mull Obama's Agenda, Economy's Stumbles

Obama administration still has many vacancies to fill

New York Times: Obama's Interview Aboard Air Force One

When Bolder is Better - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

Alan S. Blinder / New York Times:

Nationalize? Hey, Not So Fast — THE financial crisis grows weirder by the day. When philosophical conservatives like Alan Greenspan start talking about nationalizing banks, you know you've passed into some kind of parallel universe. Why are so many people entertaining an idea that sounds vaguely Marxian?

G.O.P. Senators Say Some Big Banks Can Be Allowed to Fail

GOP Looks to Escalate Attacks on Obama

Spending Offers A Prime Target

Yes, More Mr. Nice Guy By MATT BAI What Barack Obama really means when he talks about bipartisanship

Enough! A conservative's case against Limbaugh

David Frum / Newsweek:
Why Rush is Wrong — The party of Buckley and Reagan is now bereft …

The Republicans' Road Back

Yuval Levin

They need to reconnect to core principles, but apply them in new ways.

Obama Can't Make America Like Europe - Jacob Weisberg, Slate

President's Political Protector Is Ever Close at Hand

Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown — Barack Obama's offhand approach to Gordon Brown's Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America's economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.

Weekend Opinionator: The Party of Limbaugh? A Conservative Debate As the White House goes after Rush Limbaugh, Republicans are debating which they need more right now: a big audience or big ideas.

realclearpolitics memeorandum

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet

Politico ABC’s The Note MSNBC FirstReadTime ThePage Politico Playbook

PoliticsHome fivethirtyeight US News Political Bulletin

Is Obama Trying to Do Too Much? - David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

GOP sees its 2010 prospects improve

H17 Daily Telegraph The EU will have to surrender to survive The European Union is in danger of being crushed by the current economic and democratic crises unless Brussels starts to give power back to the member states, says Gisela Stuart.

The special relationship is an unfunny joke Barack Obama should be careful how he treats the British - one day he'll need us, says Iain Martin.

A dangerous situation in Northern Ireland Telegraph View Security in the province must be reviewed urgently

US says 12,000 troops to leave Iraq by September The United States will withdraw 12,000 American troops from Iraq by September, US officials have said.

H18 Independent Carbon cuts 'only give 50/50 chance of saving planet' Michael McCarthy: States negotiate Kyoto's successor, but simulations show catastrophe just years away.James Lovelock: You Ask The Questions

Leading article: These terrorists are destined to be frustrated

Suicide bomber targets police, killing 28 A suicide bomber struck police lined up at the entrance of the main police academy in Baghdad today

Pakistan: The greatest threat The militants who attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team also have Britain and the US in their sights.

Former warlord to fight Karzai in Afghanistan polls Sherzai welcomes Obama's bid to reach out to moderate Taliban elements and end bloodshed

H19 Military Intelligence Terrorism

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) · Defense Showstoppers: National Security Challenges for the Obama Administration: A Conference Report

· Towards a Balanced and Sustainable Defense

FT A professor’s bold thinking on terrorism Louise Richardson, a specialist on the subject, was pushed into the public arena with her controversial approach to terrorists, whom she says are people ‘like you and me’

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA)
· Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, & the Twenty-First Century


· Updating U.S. Deterrence Concepts and Operational Planning: Reassuring Allies, Deterring Legacy Threats, and Dissuading Nuclear "Wannabes"

The U.S. Military's New Warriors: Robots and video

The new war machine

Who is accountable when robot soldiers commit crimes against humanity?

CRS Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues

Obama vs. Navy/Air Force?

Army Developing Teams for Electronic Warfare

LA Times Editorial Clarifying the war on terror Obama should move away from abuses of the Bush era by adopting clear policies on four fronts.

Obama Vs. Military Spending

Strategic Studies Quarterly, Spring 2009, v. 3, no. 1

Pick of Intelligence: Chas of Arabia - Rich Lowry, New York Post

The man who interviewed Osama bin Laden... 3 times


US Army Doesn't Buy American - Jacques Gansler, Foreign Policy

US Missile Defence: The End Game


'Real IRA was behind army attack'

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemns attacks on a Northern Irish army base in which two soldiers were shot dead.

Who are the Real IRA?

Former U.S. Detainee Alleges British Complicity in Torture: British Complicity In Torture Alleged

Protecting People, Economies, and Infrastructure EastWest Institute The 54-page report of a worldwide security conference held in February 2008. A diverse array of leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America addressed many aspects of global security, including the importance of language and discourse, the role of education, the need to better use existing structures, and the importance of a collective responsibility to ensure security

Come Home, NATO? The Atlantic Alliance’s New Strategic Concept DIIS This 30-page Danish Report provides an overview of the political and military issues that are likely to shape the coming discussions about NATO’s new Strategic Concept

Peter Orszag / The White House:
The Fiscal Impact of Winding Down a War

Rand What It Takes: Air Force Command of Joint Operations

John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:

Yes, We Did Plan for Mumbai-Style Attacks in the U.S. — Why the latest assault on Bush antiterror strategy could make us less safe. — Suppose al Qaeda branched out from crashing airliners into American cities. Using small arms, explosives, or biological, chemical or nuclear weapons …

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· HASC Hearings for March 2-6, 2009 *Special Operations Forces: Challenges and Opportunities [March 3, 2009] *Department of Defense Fuel Demand Management at Forward-Deployed

Under White House Leadership, Cooperative Threat Reduction Programs Should Be Revamped to Address 21st Century Threats
Source: National Research Council

Book Review: 'Uranium' by Tom Zoellner URANIUM: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World

Book Review: 'Sex and War' by Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden

Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden explain the evolution of sex and war.

SEX AND WAR How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World By Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee · Committee Hearings
· The Role for Congress and the President in War: The Recommendations of the National War Powers Commission [March 5, 2009]

Recent/Recently Updated CRS Reports — National Security
Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)
+ Congress as a Consumer of Intelligence Information
+ The National Security Council: An Organizational Assessment
+ Transportation Security: Issues for the 110th Congress
+ National Aviation Security Policy, Strategy, and Mode-Specific Plans: Background and Considerations for Congress
+ Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges
+ The U.S. Secret Service: An Examination and Analysis of Its Evolving Missions

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) · Data Mining Report

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· Chemical and Biochemical Non-lethal Weapons: Political and Technical Aspects
· China's Expanding Peacekeeping Role: Its Significance and the Policy Implications
· Reporting transfers of small arms and light weapons to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, 2007
· South Ossetia and Abkhazia: Placing the Conflict in Context
· The Supreme Court, the Bush Administration and Guantánamo Bay
· Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict

Recent/Recently Updated CRS Reports — Military and Defense Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2009 Appropriations
+ Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues
+ North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States
+ Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (CVN) Homeporting at Mayport: Background and Issues for Congress
+ Military Recruitment Provisions Under the No Child Left Behind Act: A Legal Analysis
+ Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
+ Iran’s Ballistic Missile Programs: An Overview
+ Military Medical Care: Questions and Answers
+ Iraq: Summary of U.S. Casualties
+ U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress
+ Strategic Arms Control After START: Issues and Options
+ War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance
+ Long-Range Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe

U.S. facing asymmetric, cyber warfare (UPI) -- The head of the U.S. Air Force Space Command said future combat environments are shifting toward asymmetric online battlefields.

Defense Acquisitions: DOD Must Balance Its Needs with Available Resources and Follow an Incremental Approach to Acquiring Weapon Systems GAO-09-431T


· Defense Management: DOD Needs to Increase Attention on Fuel Demand Management at Forward-Deployed Locations. GAO-09-300

Real IRA 'behind army shootings'

A caller claiming to be from the Real IRA tells a newspaper the group carried out the lethal attack at Masserene army base in Northern Ireland.

Top US Cybersecurity Official Quits Over NSA 'Domination'

Good Practices as International Norms? The Modalities of the Global Fight against Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism CEPS

Organized Crime Is Increasingly Active in Film Piracy; Three Cases Link Terrorists to Piracy Profits
Source: RAND Corporation

Bomb blast outside bank in Greece

A bomb explodes behind a bank in Athens, damaging two cars but causing no injuries, according to reports.

Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers

H20 Slate It Can't Happen Here
Why Obama won't bring European social democracy to America.
Jacob Weisberg

Obama, Bush Secret-Keeper
What's the president's rationale for keeping so many legal skeletons in the closet?
Dahlia Lithwick

Independent Carbon cuts 'only give 50/50 chance of saving planet' Michael McCarthy: States negotiate Kyoto's successor, but simulations show catastrophe just years away.

International Nuclear Energy Resurgence

International Status and Prospects of Nuclear Power The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has released International Status and Prospects of Nuclear Power, an informative booklet about the renewed interest in nuclear energy for electricity generation, seawater desalination, industrial and district heat, and other uses (press release).

Century Foundation
· Building on Success: Educational Strategies that Work

United Nations Reform: U.S. Policy and International Perspectives


+ Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements


+ Globalized Supply Chains and U.S. Policy

H21 Newspapers have not really so much lost readers as lost the ability to monetize them. There is hope yet, as James DeLong explains... more»

Dark Passages Violent passages in the Koran and the Bible. (By Philip Jenkins, Boston Globe)

Beauty is both pleasurable and an ethical summons, requiring us to renounce our narcissism and look with reverence on the world... more»

Are men really funnier than women? Here are one or two theories of men’s vs. women’s humor. Or is it three, or seven, theories?... more»

How Science Fiction Found Religion Once overtly political, the genre increasingly employs Christian allegory.

What drives people to steal precious books Obsessed academics will do anything to obtain ancient pages to fill their bookshelves

Lunch with the FT: Slavoj Žižek. The Slovenian Marxist philosopher who wants to reinvent communism talks about the death throes of capitalism, the ideological 'messages' of Hollywood films and the true tragedy of Stalinism

Road speed limit cut to 50mph The government is to cut the national speed limit from 60mph to 50mph on two thirds of the country’s road network

On dark Saudi streets, boredom leads to speed

A review of How We Decide: How the Brain Makes Up its Mind by Jonah Lehrer (and more and more and more and more; and from Bookforum, a review of Lehrer's Proust Was a Neuroscientist).

From Prospect, the case for compulsory civic service: Most people think that young people should be asked to give something back — politicians agree, yet a compulsory scheme has seemed too ambitious — until now; attitudes to pay can change sharply from one era to the next

In our universities we ought to keep on studying philosophy, music, and art. But how about a nod toward the fact that 27,000 children die every day from preventable causes?... more»

Role Reversal: As recession lengthens, more men are laid off and become Mr. Moms

The Kindle Revolution: Digital readers will save writers and publishing, even if they destroy the book business. A look at why books aren't dying and why the end of newspapers is not the end of news. What comes after a golden age? Reports of the impending death of print are greatly exaggerated. The economy of reading is rapidly collapsing — if we can bail out banks, why not the book industry? From Fortune, someday you may be reading your newspaper on an e-paper device, a thin piece of plastic the size of a legal pad that can be taken to the beach or on the train — that day may be a lot closer than you think

Seinfeld Stars To Reunite in Primetime

Workaholic professionals, whose minds 24/7 race ahead to the next encounter, are always elsewhere – the twitterati... more»

Being gifted has its burdens too An inside look at Mensa Israel, the exclusive club for people whose IQ score is in the top 2%.

The 50 Biggest Movies of 2008

Did Reagan Try to Convert Gorbachev? James Mann lifts the curtain on Ronald Reagan's secret attempt to convince atheist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that God exists.

How the French finally acquired a taste for soap

Push for financial literacy spreads to schools More students taught to avoid the dangers of credit-card debt.

Simple pleasures gain ground

In tough times, people are increasingly turning to activities such as board games and musical evenings with friends.

Death Be Not Allowed

Claire Messud

No one likes to think about dying, but novelists seem scared to—well, death—to write about it.

Download Any Book from Google Book Search hack

Ben Franklin, Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVI, Talleyrand, Hamilton, Napoleon, Madame de Staël, Washington, Mohawk Indians. Lucie de La Tour du Pin knew them all... more»

Soybeans yield more usable protein per acre than other common cultivated plant. Yes, but that is then used to make protein of a different kind... more»

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Türk Dış Politika Gündemine Dair 7 Kısa Not 6 Eylül 2011
“Zafer İlan Et ve Kaç:” ABD ve Afganistan’dan “Sorumluca” Çekilmenin Mantığı 23 Haziran 2011
Orta Doğu'da Durum Raporu 25 Mayıs 2011
Bin Ladin’in Öldürülmesi Üzerine Notlar 25 Mayıs 2011
Bin Ladin’in Öldürülmesi Üzerine 15 Kısa Not 3 Mayıs 2011
ABD ve Karadeniz Nisan 2011

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

ABD-PKK “İlişkisi” Üzerine Notlar Şubat 2009
Mahşerin Üç Atlısı: Ross, Holbrooke ve Mitchell 5 Şubat 2009
SOFA ABD için Irak’ta “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Ocak 2009
Obama Döneminde ABD ve Asya 15 Ocak 2009
Obama’nın Güvenlik Kabinesi Üzerine Notlar 4 Aralık 2008
Yeni ABD Başkanı Obama ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 6 Kasım 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimlerinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerine Muhtemel Etkileri 30 Ekim 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimleri Ekim 2008
Obama’nın Biden’ı Tercihinin Bir Tahlili 26 Ağustos 2008
Amerikan Sağı Üzerine Notlar Ağustos 2008
Gürcistan Krizi, ABD ve Türkiye 11 Ağustos 2008
Obama'nın Dış Gezisi 29 Temmuz 2008
Başkan Bush’un Avrupa Gezisi ve Transatlantik İlişkileri 18 Haziran 2008
ABD Seçimleri (ppt) - 10 Haziran 2008
"Sessiz Tsunami": Global Gıda Krizi (ppt) - 29 Nisan 2008
Amiral Fallon'un İstifası 13 Mart 2008
ABD ve PKK İlişkisi Üzerine Notlar 22 Kasım 2007
“İçeride Liberal, Dışarıda Şahin”: K. Irak’a Harekat Üzerine Notlar 25 Ekimy 2007
K.Irak'a Ekonomik Müeyyideler Üzerine Sorular 25 Ekimy 2007
Irak "Hamle"sinin Muhasebesi Eylül 2007
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri - Yeni Dönemin Gündemi Eylül 2007
ABD, K. Irak ve Türkiye Üzerine Notlar ve Sorular Haziran 2007
ABD ve Orta Doğu: "Müflis mirasyedi" mi "stratejik deha" mı? Mayıs 2007
Recommendations for Strengthening U.S.-Turkish Relations February 26, 2007
ABD'nin Irak'taki Seçenekleri Ocak 2007
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U.S.: Empire, Gulliver or the “First Among Unequals” (ppt) - ASAM 2023 Conference - October 2006
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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
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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
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İyi, Kötü ve Çirkin: ABD'nin Orta Doğu Politikaları Ocak 2002
Unilateralism corrupts, absolute unilateralism corrupts absolutely Turkish News, May 21, 2002
ABD ve Afganistan: Çıkış Var mı? Kasım 2001
Realism and Change
Crime and Punishment - Deterrence and its Failure in Theory and Practice 2001
“Tüketebileceğimizden Daha Fazla Değişim” ya da Eskimeyen Dünya Düzeni Ekim 2001
“ABD-AB İlişkilerinde Metal Yorgunluğu” Haziran 2001
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