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An Amazing Look Into the Past
Although this is a bit outside what I usually discuss (but I have an excuse coming up in a moment), I recommend to you some truly remarkable pictures of the Russian empire, taken a century ago. Here's my excuse: A number of them are in the Caucasus and Central Asia which can be regarded as part of the Greater Middle East. I hate it ... Read more
BY PROF. BARRY RUBIN | Aug-2010
"What Soviet Threat?" What If Attlee's Radicalism Had Prevailed?
Although British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee (1945-51), is properly known as a Cold Warrior no less gung-ho than his Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, or the American president, Harry Truman, less well known is Attlee's rejection of the salience of the Soviet 'threat' and promotion of a policy of closing British bases in the Mediterranean and Mid... Read more
BY PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR | Aug-2010
Hair Today, Prime Minister Tomorrow
Over the past two decades a streak of hair between the nose and upper lip has gone from a sign of manhood to a class symbol. Until the early 1990s, almost all Turkish men had one, whereas today the moustache belongs to those only in the lower-middle and working-class neighbourhoods known as varos. These concrete-heavy boroughs unattractively encirc... Read more
BY DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY | Aug-2010
Indigneous Party Prospects in Peru
The decision by Peru's indigenous communities to form a political party ahead of next year's presidential election poses a number of questions. These include the prospects of such a party in Peru specifically and the relationship between social movements and political parties more generally. The immediate reasons for the decision ar... Read more
BY DR. GUY BURTON | Aug-2010
Why All Middle Eastern Politics Can't Be Reduced Merely to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
ly cannot comprehend why so many in the West refuse to see that Arabs can be revolutionaries. It is remarkable that so many who claim to be experts don't incorporate the idea that Arabs, like other peoples, might dislike their existing societies or be motivated by ideologies claiming to be the blueprints for utopias. After all, if Af... Read more
BY PROF. BARRY RUBIN | Aug-2010
Afghan Intel War Leaks And After
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange - an Australian journalist and a computer hacker, has begun to draw intense fire over his leaks of Intel files related to Afghan war from the Amnesty International, Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), Obama administration and the US military. Julian is pledging to continue with his crusade against censorship ... Read more
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Aug-2010
China Economy Weekly: Rail Projects, Inflation, International Trade Links
China Clears Inter-city Rail Projects: The National Development and Reform Commission on Friday approved inter-city rail transit networks covering more than 2,000 kilometres to accelerate regional integration. The network runs across central China, mainly in Henan province, and is expected to link nine cities with its 496 kilo... Read more
BY PROF. SCOTT LUCAS | Aug-2010
Clement Attlee, David Cameron and the Special Relationship With India
British Prime Minister David Cameron recently declared his wish to build – or rather renew – Britain's 'special relationship' with India. The likelihood of that, I suspect, is strong mainly because of the character of India's elite, and the evolution of that society since 1947 when India won its freedom from British rule. But what kind of independe... Read more
BY PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR | Aug-2010
The US in Costa Rica: the price of Latin American exceptionalism?
During the current Venezuela-Colombia spat, one particular comment by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, was particularly striking – although not necessarily for the reason he gave. During a speech commemorating Venezuela's founder and his political hero, Simon Bolivar, Chavez highlighted the passage of 46 US warships, 200 helicopters and 7000 ... Read more
BY DR. GUY BURTON | Aug-2010
Iran Document: Mousavi on "Constitutional Monarchy" Movement
We are marking the anniversary of the "Constitutional Monarchy" movement that has echoed the necessity to condition power for more than a hundred years. Aside from demands for justice, freedom, and establishment of law, the placing of conditions on power is the result of our ancestors' struggle and self sacrifice. The institutions th... Read more
BY PROF. SCOTT LUCAS | Aug-2010
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Viewpoint: Throwing the Afghan Baby Out With Bath Water
There have been doubts in the US and Europe about the war in Afghanistan and clamour for an even earlier withdrawal of international troops since the website Wikileaks released 90,000 leaked classified documents on the conflict. In an extraordinary ... Read more
BY AHMED RASHID | Aug-2010
Divide Afghanistan at Your Peril
Over the past 32 years, Afghans have fought a series of wars to keep their country together. For all the machinations of great powers and neighbouring states, no Afghan warlord or leader has ever succumbed to outside pressure for partition. ... Read more
BY AHMED RASHID | Aug-2010
'Made in America' is not the way out of this crisis
President Barack Obama, addressing car workers recently at a GM plant in Michigan, defended his administration's motor industry bail-out, saying that it had rescued "the heart and soul" of American manufacturing, that "has been a symbol of our econom... Read more
BY JAGDISH BHAGWATI | Aug-2010
Anglo-American Relations: The Special Relationship Marches On
Even as British leaders, and the media, proclaim the imminent death of the 'special relationship' with the United States, they cannot seem to help backing America's line in world affairs. Last week, when Prime Minister David Cameron was in Turkey, he... Read more
BY PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR | Aug-2010
How Conspiracy Theories Spread
How and why do conspiracy theories spread in Turkey? Recent developments are a case in point, demonstrating the role of government rhetoric in spreading such theories, as well as anti-Western sentiments. Lately, Turkey has experienced a spike in Kur... Read more
BY DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY | Aug-2010
Presidents and Their Generals: A Conversation with Eliot Cohen
AI: Let's start with the Stanley McChrystal episode. What's your take on this? Why did the general act with such inexplicable tactlessness? Did President Obama, in your view, respond appropriately? Eliot Cohen: Obama handled it well... Read more
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Aug-2010
Can You Handle The Truth?: Poll Shows The Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion
This is one of those stories about the Middle East that is totally amazing but not the least bit surprising. What, you ask, do I mean? From the standpoint of the way the region is portrayed in the West this information is incredible but if you unders... Read more
BY PROF. BARRY RUBIN | Aug-2010
Children of a Lesser God
How easily are such sentiments expressed. Tens of thousands of Afghans have been killed in the past decade of the 'war on terror', waged in pursuit of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. So what are a few thousand more? They're just Afghans, after all, and... Read more
BY PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR | Aug-2010
Turkey's New Foreign Policy Direction: Implications for U.S.-Turkish Relations
Chairman Berman, Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen, Honorable Members. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. Prime Minister Erdoğan, and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) have changed Turkey fundamentally. They do not simply seek good relatio... Read more
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Jul-2010
Statement of Dr. Ian Lesser
Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to share my views on Turkey's evolving foreign policy and the implications for American interests and strategy. With your permission, I will offer a brief summa... Read more
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Jul-2010
Turkey and the United States: How To Go Forward (and Not Back)
Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for the honor of being invited to speak at this hearing on Turkey and U.S. Turkish relations. Turkey is a fascinating, sometimes frustrating, often confusing and very important country in a key part of the world f... Read more
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Jul-2010
Statement of Soner Cagaptay, Ph.D.
Hearing on "Turkey's New Foreign Policy Direction: Implications for U.S.-Turkish Relations" Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, for inviting me to this timely and important hearing on Turkey at this crucial juncture in U.S... Read more
BY DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY | Jul-2010
Chairman Berman's opening statement at hearing, "Turkey's New Foreign Policy Direction: Implications
The purpose of this hearing is to gain insight into the changes in the foreign-policy direction of our long-time ally Turkey. Now the sixteenth-largest economy in the world, Turkey is a complex country, endowed by geography with circumstances that co... Read more
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Jul-2010
A Puzzling Scenario? UNITAS Exercises in Peru
Last weekend the UNITAS naval exercises between the US and several South American navies, including 1300 from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, and soldiers from Canada, came to an end. This regional event is d... Read more
BY DR. GUY BURTON | Jul-2010
The Electrical Workers Union versus President Calderon: Class, Struggle, Repression and the Rise of
There is a direct relation between the rise of criminal gangs, the deepening of neo-liberalism and the repression of social movements and trade unions. Read more
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Jul-2010
Extracting Change in Afghanistan's Development Quagmire
The girls' high school under construction in Jabal Seraj could have turned out like any other development project in the area: crumbling and dangerous. Afghanistan is littered with poor-quality buildings sponsored by foreign donors. The projects are ... Read more
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Jul-2010
A new low for Colombian-Venezuelan relations?
Relations between Colombia and Venezuela appear to have hit a new low. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed by Venezuela's government following the Colombia ambassador's presentation before the OAS last Thursday (22 July) that ... Read more
BY DR. GUY BURTON | Jul-2010
Iran Analysis: The Hardliners Take on Ahmadinejad
The dominant front-line story on EA from Iran these days is the tension within the establishment: the growing conservative/principlist movement against the Government, the fight over Islamic Azad University, the disputes over the budget and the (stil... Read more
BY PROF. SCOTT LUCAS | Jul-2010
Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo
Does the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence Resolve Anything? I always tell my students that, when sitting an exam, they have to answer the question that has been set rather than one that t... Read more
BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF | Jul-2010
What to Expect from the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo
More than two years ago, in February 2008, the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo unilaterally declared Kosovo's independence from Serbia. This was the culmination of an almost ten-year process of contested international administra... Read more
BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF | Jul-2010
Afghanistan's Mineral Wealth: A Blessing in Disguise?
Ever since the Pentagon announced that it estimated Afghanistan to sit on around $1 trillion of minerals, including iron ore, copper, cobalt, gold, silver and aluminium, and additional reserves of lithium not included in this value estimate, commenta... Read more
BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF | Jul-2010
Only talks with the Taliban can end an unwinnable war
The meeting, attended by Foreign Secretary William Hague, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other foreign ministers, along with the UN Secretary General, is a make-or-break effort to galvanise President Hamid Karzai into taking responsibility... Read more
BY AHMED RASHID | Jul-2010
"Time Tested Friendship": Azerbaijan–Georgian Relations
"After the August war" - most political analysts use this quote when discussing events after the Georgian-Russian war in 2008, which changed the political map of the wider Caucasus. The war also served as an unequivocal reminder that Russia will no ... Read more
BY ZAUR SHIRIYEV | Jul-2010
Democracy and Judaism in Israel
Israel was established as both a democratic and a Jewish state. Both qualities continue to be real enough. But there have been increasing tensions between these two definitions of the state, and some (in Israel and outside it) have questioned whether... Read more
BY PETER BERGER | Jul-2010
BOOK REVIEW
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BY JEYHUN VELIYEV | Aug-2010
Book Review: Kicking Away the Ladder-Development Strategy in Historical Persp
BY OMER F. ORSUN | Jul-2010
Book Review: The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe: Rules and Rhetoric
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Apr-2010
Book Review: Why not Torture Terrorists? Moral, Practical, and Legal Aspects
BY CESRAN-SARAM | Apr-2010
Book Review: Trade Policy, New Century: The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising
BY KAAN RENDA | Apr-2010
Book Review: European Security Culture: Language, Theory and Policy
BY AKSEL ERSOY | Apr-2010
Book Review: Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy
BY ESENGUL AYAZ | Apr-2010
Book Review: Security: A New Framework for Analysis
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Cameroon’s Golden Anniversary of Independence: Anything to Celebrate?*
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Viewpoint: Throwing the Afghan Baby Out With Bath Water
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An Amazing Look Into the Past
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Is GUAM Really Only an “Organisation for Democracy and Economic Development" in The Black Sea Region?*
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The Fear of a Free Kurdistan in the Middle East of the 21st Century
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Hair Today, Prime Minister Tomorrow
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Posting From Pakistan
During the next two weeks I'll be visiting Pakistan at the invitation of the US Embassy there. I won't be there to toe the government line; from time to time US diplomats abroad call on people from m... Read more
By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD | 25 Jul 2010
The AKP's Hamas Policy III: Countering Radicalizat
For Turks today, after seven years of propaganda, Hamas appears to be a good organization as it has been a guest in Istanbul seven times and has had multiple contacts with the government. It even has ... Read more
By DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY | 25 Jul 2010
The AKP's Hamas Policy II: "Us vs. Them"
At home, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has promoted the Islamist mindset of "us Muslims" in conflict with "the bad others" through the media and also by spreading Hamas' views throughout ... Read more
By DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY | 25 Jul 2010
The AKP's Hamas Policy I: How Turkey Turned
Turkey has not traditionally boasted strong popular support for Hamas, or any other groups with a violent Islamist agenda. Turks generally have had an attitude of benign indifference towards their c... Read more
By DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY | 25 Jul 2010
No, Israel is about to Attack Iran Now, Here's Why
How do you know someone has no idea what they're talking about? Answer: They predict that Israel is about to attack Iran. From the perspective of people in Israel who are closely following these issu... Read more
By PROF. BARRY RUBIN | 25 Jul 2010
Why Peace Can Be As Difficult As War?
Current public policy debates in Armenia and Azerbaijan over a possible Nagorno-Karabakh war are more acceptable to those who want to return to their homes rather than live in a “no-war-no-peace” situ... Read more
By ZAUR SHIRIYEV | 17 Jul 2010
Nuking Westphalia: Obama’s Deep Convictions Point
In spite of what some conspiracy-minded critics on the right think, mainstream journalists like Time’s Joel Klein do not often agree with Fidel Castro. That both Klein and Castro ... Read more
By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD | 17 Jul 2010
The Silent Palestinian Refugee Crisis
In 2007, the jihadi group Fatah al-Islam infiltrated the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon, engaging the Lebanese army in a protracted three-month battle. The violence resulte... Read more
By CESRAN-SARAM | 17 Jul 2010
Orthodox Patriarchate in Turkey Wins One Battle, S
On the picturesque island of Buyukada in the Marmara Sea about an hour’s ferry ride from Istanbul, tourists climb a steep track through pine trees to peer through locked gates at the decaying remains ... Read more
By CESRAN-SARAM | 17 Jul 2010
Let's not Forget History's Lessons
Reply to Dr. Cagaptay's Article (Turkey Lost Turkey) “When Ataturk established the CHP in the 1920s, his vision was to make Turkey European”[1]. Yes it was a truly commendable achieveme... Read more
By PROF. BÜLENT GÖKAY | 14 Jul 2010
Pentagon Paid Airport Fees to Turkmenistan, But Ca
For more than six years, the Pentagon paid fees to the Turkmen government for the use of the Central Asian nation’s airports. However, officials in Washington either won’t or can’t say just how much w... Read more
By CESRAN-SARAM | 13 Jul 2010
Is Gazprom Waiting to Pounce on a Piece of a Georg
An effort to remove Georgia’s North-South gas pipeline from a list of strategic state-owned properties is stirring controversy. Officials in Tbilisi maintain that full privatization of the pipeline is... Read more
By CESRAN-SARAM | 13 Jul 2010
Protectionist Myths
At a debate in New York last year entitled “Buy American/Hire American Policies Will Backfire,” with hundreds of people in attendance, my team of three free-trade proponents took on a trio of protecti... Read more
By JAGDISH BHAGWATI | 13 Jul 2010
