Posting From Pakistan
By Walter Russell Mead | 23 July 2010 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...
Why Peace Can Be As Difficult As War?
By Zaur Shiriyev | 15 July 2010 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...
Who are “We”?
By Peter Berger | 17 July 2010 A Chinese sage defined a wise person as one who sees things together which others see as apart. Writing a blog implies the presumption of at least...
Orthodox Patriarchate in Turkey Wins One Battle, Still Faces Struggle for Survival
By Alexander Christie-Miller | 17 July 2010 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...
Liberal Interventionism R.I.P.
By Gregorio Bettiza | 05 July 2010 While conducting fieldwork in Washington DC this summer, I was struck by the many complaints about President Obama’s lack of interest in pursuing liberal values abroad. “Those working...
The War Over Germany’s Imams
By Paul Hockenos | 02 July 2010 For decades, no one in Germany took much notice of the imported Islamic holy men in their midst. Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs sent imams...
Marx Awakes as China Rises
By Walter Russell Mead | 23 June 2010 Most of the headlines that blare at us from newspaper pages and internet sites are noise. Much of the breathless commentary that we get...
Iran Special: Mousavi, Karroubi, and the Strategy of “We Are Still Standing (for the Revolution)”
By Prof. Scott Lucas | 24 June 2010 And so another statement, accompanied by a picture of the two men warmly greeting each other, from Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. The...
Feminised International Politics: three cases from Latin America
By Dr. Guy Burton | 18 June 2010 What role and impact do women have on politics and international affairs? Nearly a century ago, when suffragettes demanded the vote, a number of...
Turkish Dilemma
By James Traub | 16 June 2010 My son wants to study a non-European language that's going to matter in the future. He has been contemplating Arabic or Hindi. But after the...
Afghanistan Special: New Report on Pakistan’s Intelligence Links with Insurgents (Waldman)
By Prof. Scott Lucas | 14 June 2010 There has been a lot of media furour over the last 48 hours about a new report about the relationship between Pakistan’s Inter Services...
Obama’s National Security Strategy: Israel*
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar** | 04 June 2010 Without trying to be ironic, President Barack Obama's administration issued a helpful factsheet alongside the NSS, released at the end of May 2010. In...
Israeli banditry on the high seas: Options for the OIC*
By Abdullah al- Ahsan** | 09 June 2010 More than a week has passed since Israeli armed forces butchered a number of peace activists in the Mediterranean who were carrying emergency supplies...
Two Cheers for Multilateralism
By James Traub | 09 June 2010 Let us now praise modest achievements. The U.N. review conference for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty concluded at the end of May with a 28-page document (pdf)...
Turkish Vision of Regional and Global Order: Theoretical Background and Practical Implementation
By Prof. Ahmet Davutoglu | 01 June 2010 Preface We, as members of CESRAN, attended the conference entitled “Turkey’s foreign policy in a changing world” held at the St Antony’s College...