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H1 The National Interest Online Realists vs. Neocons by Daniel W. Drezner There’s a battle raging for the foreign-policy soul of the Republican Party. Will realists regain their traditional dominance, or be permanently displaced by the upstart neocons?

CNAS Stumbling into the Future: The Indirect Approach and American Strategy Shawn Brimley and Vikram Singh (pdf)

World Media Deliver Damning Verdict on Iraq Situation Five Years On

Military Force Planning and Decision Making: Organizing and Rebuilding Iraqi Security Forces

Bill Richardson Endorses Obama, A.P. Reports

Los Angeles Times Iraq guards asked to trade guns for brooms As calm returns to some areas, the U.S. military is faced with the question of what to do with the tribesmen it hired to defend their neighborhoods.

EurasiaNet China and Russia: The Gendarmes of Eurasia BY STEPHEN BLANK China’s crackdown on protesters in Tibet is potentially setting a precedent for members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Commentary The Israel of the Balkans Michael J. Totten The trials and tribulations of the world's newest independent state

Gates Considers US Force Levels for Iraq

Washington Post Hope in Pakistan The Problems Are Real, but So Is the Progress By Richard Holbrooke Pakistan's problems are real, but so is the progress being made

Iran a Nuclear Threat, Bush Insists Experts Say President Is Wrong and Is Escalating Tensions

The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud

By Charles Krauthammer, Elegantly crafted and delivered, Obama's race speech left key questions unanswered

Guardian Bush's Napoleon moment Dilip Hiro President Bush could have brought democracy to Iraq without invading the country, but instead, he opted for war

The time is now Petra Marquardt-Bigman With Arab leaders prepared to accept a deal based on 'land for peace' and Israel engaged, there are grounds for optimism in the Middle East

Sunni militia strike could derail US strategy against al-Qaida

Fighters accuse the US military of using them to clear al-Qaida militants and then abandoning them

BBC Hard decisions
What would the next US president do about troops in Iraq?

Daily Telegraph Cheney Tour Sparks Iran War Rumors

Asia Times Same game, new rules in Afghanistan
Obituaries for the Taliban's spring offensive are premature, though instead of trying to engage opposition forces head-on, the Taliban will open up new fronts in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. In return, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and United States-led troops will target the Taliban's safe havens straddling the border with Pakistan. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

Exclusive: Cheney resurrects military option against Iran in Gulf tour

William Arkin Iraq Is All About Iran? Not!

Weekly Standard Why We Went Into Iraq by Peter D. Feaver

Wall Street Journal A Thinking Man's Speech

By Peggy Noonan Declarations: Obama forgoes soundbites in favor of ideas.

Democrats Are Still Weak on Security
By Karl Rove Intransigence on Iraq and terrorist surveillance isn't going to help the party in the fall.

Newsweek The West Loses More Ground || Newsweek.com

As the United States and Europe bicker, the Atlantic alliance is losing influence.

Independent Abkhazia, the country that doesn't exist, prepares to follow Kosovo's example

Bush Offers 'Way Forward' With Iran

U.S. President George W. Bush tells Persian-language broadcaster Radio Farda in an exclusive interview that it is Iran's "right" to have a civilian nuclear-power program but that there is no need for the country to enrich uranium

Daily Telegraph Dick Cheney tour sparks Iran war rumours

The Maginot Pipeline By: Kyle Wingfield | The Wall Street Journal Intended as a defense against Russian dominance of EU natural gas supplies, the $7.4 billion Nabucco pipeline is beginning to look like a modern-day Maginot Line

Nabucco Follies: State Department Shills for EU Pipeline to Carry ... World Politics Review

RFERL Gazprom Imperils Hopes For Trans-Caspian Pipeline

Could a landmark deal between Gazprom and three energy-rich Central Asian states doom European plans to transport gas across the Caspian Sea and away from Russian control?

Washington Institute The Hamas Dilemma: A Debate on Alternate Strategies Engage Hamas?
Rob Satloff vs. Rob Malley (mp3).

Time Bracing for a New Hizballah-Israel War

Life of a Qaeda strategist
Adam Shatz, LRB.

Outside View: Bush's failed Kosovo policy By ROBERT M. HAYDEN (UPI) -- Fighting in northern Kosovo this week between Serbs and NATO-led troops shows that the independence engineered by the Bush administration for the breakaway Balkan province is not going according to plan.

IHT Tensions threaten Kosovo's tenuous peace Analysts and Western diplomats warn that the conflict could boil over if the international community does not overcome divisions and marshal a more robust response to Serbia's attempt to partition Europe's newest state.

Christian Science Monitor Can U.S. avert a Japan-style economic bust? Similar crises have hit other nations, but Sweden bounced back far faster than Japan

Ha’aretz – Israel, Germany plan int'l summit to stop Iran nuke program

Bin Laden tape: Iron and fire needed to liberate Palestine

Time A Rival for Iran's Ahmadinejad - Nahid Siamdoust
Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf, the mayor of Tehran, is emerging as a quiet rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

NY Post Revolutionary Guards Post Gains in Iranian Elections - Amir Taheri

Iran: A New Balance of Forces By: Kamal Nazer Yasin | ISN Security Watch The hard-line faction associated with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has failed to secure a majority in the next parliament, a phenomenon which will have far-reaching consequences. The new entrants may form a working majority on an ad hoc basis against the Iranian president

A Suez Moment? ORG This 5-page essay compares Britain's situation at the time of the Suez crisis with the position of the US in respect of Iraq and Afghanistan

NRO JAMES S. ROBBINS: The war in Iraq has achieved its strategic purpose, whether the public believes it was worth it or not. “Quiet Victory

USIP Special Report: Using Quantitative and Qualitative Models to Forecast Instability

Jerusalem Post The clandestine Saudi-Israeli ties Saudi press abounds with reports of products tagged "Made in Israel."

CFR Cook: No Likelihood of US Breaking with Israel on Hamas Talks

Heritage China's Expanding Global Influence: Foreign Policy Goals, Practices, and Tools

Radical Islamists no longer welcome in Pakistani tribal areas

Carnegie A Mid-Term Report of the Hu-Wen Government: Analyzing the Outcome of the National People's Congress

Malaysian Lessons for Asia's Authoritarians By: Victor Mallet | Financial Times Two very different uprisings, one in Tibet and one in Malaysia, have exposed the ethnic and political tensions that often seethe beneath the calm surface of Asia’s successful economies

CSIS Invigorating Defense Governance

H 2 NYT Editorial Turkey’s Democracy on Trial The lawsuit filed by one of Turkey’s top prosecutors last week gravely threatens political and economic stability and Ankara’s international reputation

Report: Turkey Bombs Kurd Rebels in Iraq

'Türkiye'nin Kürt Sorunu'

Washington’da Brookings Enstitüsü’nde düzenlenen panelde “Türkiye’nin Kürt Sorunu” değerlendirildi

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Turkmenistan: Will Berdymukhamedov Commit to the Trans-Caspian Pipeline During His Turkey Visit?

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Iraqi Kurd Daily Details Conflict Between PKK, Turkey's Ruling Party

TURKEY: Ruling Party Risks 'Closure' Inter Press Service

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