041608f - FOREIGN PRESS REVIEW (FPR) - ‘Relevant news, views, comments and analyses for informed debate’ Compiled by Şanlı Bahadır Koç U.S. / Britain / Turkey / Magazines / Think-tanks / Blogs / Misc /Books / Quickread / Numbers / Reports - Subscribe to FPR FPR Table - H4 NYT WP GU H7 ME Isr H10 CSM IHT Eur FSU Asia H13 Times WSJ FT LAT H16 USP DT Ind H19 Mil Int Ter Wonk H21 Misc

H1 Foreign Affairs The Age of Nonpolarity by Richard Haass

The era of American hegemony is over--and Washington will have to change its ways to succeed in the new environment. MP3 Read an excerpt from Mr Haass’s essay.

Analysis: Euroworld 2015: a European strategy for globalisation - Final report of the "Europe and Globalisation" mission chaired by Laurent Cohen-Tanugi

CSIS Colloquium: Zbigniew Brezinski's 80th Birthday Scowcroft, Kissinger, Haass, Ikenberry, Brzezinski et al.

CFR The United States and Shifting Global Power Dynamics

It'll Take More to Derail Obama Nomination - Charlie Cook, Nat'l Journal

Laura Rozen J Street: "New 'Pro Israel, Pro Peace' Political Group Launches in Washington: 'J Street' Hopes to Prod Washington Middle East Policy Back Towards the Center" More from the Post, MJ Rosenberg, Gershom Gorenberg, Ron Kampeas, Matt Yglesias, Ben-Ami, and Dana Goldstein.

'Holocaust Declaration'?
Dowty and Garfinkle, MESH

Rand The Challenge of Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries

Perspectives on the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism

The Global Food Fight By: Simon Roughneen | ISN Security Watch
The biofuel craze, commodity speculation, growing demand in emerging economies and soaring energy prices coalesce to boost food prices, with mass hunger and political instability looming

The gun, fatwa and vote GulfNews By Amir Taheri

Murder's Mess for Muqtada - Amir Taheri, New York Post

Paul Kennedy The Nuts and Bolts of Empire All great empires have required a sophisticated logistical system, and a secure communications system to sustain themselves. In a world of endless challenges imperial ambitions soon collapse. This lecture will examine the hard, infrastructural underpinnings of the Roman, Spanish and British Empires, and reflect on how the USA compares in this regard.

Financial Times Why financial regulation is both difficult and essential A voluntary banking code is almost certainly not worth the paper it is written on. If regulation is to be effective, it must cover all relevant institutions and the entire balance sheet and, not least, it must make finance less pro-cylical, writes Martin Wolf

What follows American dominion? US is no longer dominant, says Richard Haass

Quentin Peel: Echoes of Soviet times, but with style United Russia has no ideology and only one purpose: to back Vladimir Putin as Russian president and now – presumably – to support Dmitry Medvedev, his chosen successor

CFR Iran’s Power Brokers

SyriaComment News Round Up (15 April 2008)

Carnegie Empire of Lies: The Truth About China in the Twenty-First Century

Salon Dick Cheney was never a "grown-up" A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism. By Sidney Blumenthal

The introduction to Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power by Randall L. Schweller.

Countering Terrorism By: Joshua Sinai | The Washington Times
Jerrold Post's "The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to Al-Qaeda" provides a framework for understanding modern-day terrorism's psychological mindset.

Stratfor Iraq: Militias, Provincial Polls and the Ethno-Sectarian Struggle ...

Guardian Change in farming can feed world - report Sixty countries call for radical changes in world farming to avert increasing regional food shortages

How the food crisis is being felt around the world

Ha’aretz –Editorial Iran is playing with fire Iran under the Islamic revolutionary government represents a serious security problem for Israel

Brothers in Arms? Engaging the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt IPPR This 29-page UK paper considers whether Western governments should seek to engage with the Muslim Botherhood

Enlarging the Anglosphere - Gordon Brown, Wall Street Journal

Ignoring Economic Reality on Trade - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek

American Prospect A Middle East Report Card With the clock running out on the Bush administration, can late efforts amount to actual progress in the Middle East? Is the Annapolis process doomed, or can Sec. Rice finally make some progress?

H 2 Condoleezza Rice Remarks at the American-Turkish Council Luncheon

Iran says US aids rebels at its borders Los Angeles Times

PKK ABD yardımını itiraf etti

Arşivden ABD ve PKK İlişkisi Üzerine Notlar 22 Kasım 2007

Türk-Amerikan Konseyi toplantısından başlıklar

Rice lauds Turkey on free speech, urges more rights

Strategic Studies Institute The Evolution of U.S. Turkish Relations in a Transatlantic Context. Edited by Dr. Frances G. Burwell. (pdf)

US general urges ‘partial amnesty’ for PKK members

Daily Telegraph Nato making mistake in Afghanistan, warns Turkish minister

Report: ITC expected to be dismantled

AFGANİSTAN'A ASKER GÖNDERİYORUZ