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H1 New York Times For Two Primaries, Several Scenarios For political, demographic and mathematical reasons, Tuesday’s primaries could reshape the Democratic race

Editorial Georgia, NATO and Mr. Medvedev Russia’s next president, Dmitri Medvedev, must tell his aides to cool their rhetoric and begin a high-level dialogue with neighboring Georgia

Iran Halts Talks With U.S. on Iraq

Washington Post Eight Questions About Today's Primaries By Dan Balz

A Warning Shot From Moscow?

In the Georgian Province of Abkhazia, a Possible Flashpoint for a New War By Anne Applebaum, Is Moscow picking a preemptive fight with Georgia?

Cloak and Stagger By: Leonard S. Spector and Avner Cohen | Los Angeles Times After overestimating the Iraq threat, U.S. intelligence agencies are now dangerously underestimating Syria and Iran.

Sunday Times New Information May Lead U.S. to Revise NIE on Iran -

Jerusalem Post'Israel offering us nothing more than mini-state of cantons' PA official tells 'Post' maps presented by gov't show Israel planning to retain control of nearly half of W. Bank, large parts of e. J'lem.

Selling the War With Iran
by Nir Rosen

Conversation with Fareed Zakaria

FIRST CHAPTER; ‘The Post-American World’

Der Spiegel An 'Americanization' of German Foreign Policy?: Merkel's CDU Calls for Missile Shield for Europe

IHT Germany hopes to focus on 'national interests' Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc Monday called for the establishment of a council to oversee the ministries and agencies responsible for implementing domestic and foreign policies

China's competing nationalisms

By DAVID SHAMBAUGH

Which of the competing Chinese nationalisms will show up at the Olympics in August?

"Harmonious" in China By: John Delury | Policy Review
The idea in China of “building a harmonious society” has a history, one thread of which is very recent and the other thousands of years old. A weaving together of the strands places current ccp propaganda and prc political discourse in a larger pattern of thought.

Assessing Nuclear Activity in Syria and Iran - Emily B. Landau
The U.S. officials who briefed lawmakers on Syria's covert nuclear reactor believed that the reactor was intended to produce nuclear weapons. It was clearly not for producing electricity, and it was ill-suited to be a research reactor. Moreover, Syria had acted suspiciously, rushing to destroy the remains of the reactor after the attack. Determined proliferators are well aware that states are looking for smoking guns, and they put tremendous efforts into hiding their activities. Connecting the dots of weapons-related nuclear activity should be carried out in the realm of strategic analysis, where hard evidence of so-called smoking guns is but one important component. Something is amiss when intelligence officials have to bend over backwards to explain an estimate that doesn't concur with what they believe to be the actual nature of a state's nuclear activity based on their overall analysis and powers of deduction. (Institute for National Security Studies-Tel Aviv University)

Opposition of Beijing, Nuclear Concerns Scuttle Tehran's Bid for Full SCO Membership By: Richard Weitz | World Politics Review

Guardian A new Russian president gives Europe the chance to get tougher - and closer David Clark: The sooner the EU and its neighbour forge a more open political and economic relationship, the better for both

The old dream of a nation, like all nations, remains just that: a dream

Ian Black

Wall Street Journal

The Mystery of Political Charisma
By Joseph S. Nye Jr. It's easy to look good when things are going well.

The Twilight of Supremacy
By Brendan Simms
Bookshelf: If American dominance fades, American power will still matter decisively.

Israel's 60-Year TestBy Bret Stephens Global View: "The anti-Semite makes the Jew," said Jean-Paul Sartre, as if Jewishness was conferred rather than practiced.

Ha’aretz – J'lem source: Rice seeks Israel, PA memo before next week's Bush visit Secretary of State says world must see concrete documents in order to believe negotiations are progressing

Mossad chief to hold talks with UK counterpart in Israel

Asia Times Iran moving into the big league From the Persian Gulf to the Caspian region, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia and beyond, Iran thanks to its geographical location is an ideal connecting bridge that has not until now fully exploited its advantageous equidistance from India and Europe. This is exemplified in the US$7.6 billion gas pipeline that will flow from Iran to Pakistan to India, and which is finally close to reality. Tehran is ambitiously moving from regional power to global power. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

A Fight over Energy - Council on Foreign Relations

Soaring Food Prices Mean Less Education for Poor - Council on Foreign Relations

Christian Science Monitor Who is Moqtada al-Sadr? He is the 'most important and most surprising figure' of the Iraq war.

Iraq's new gated communities: safer, mixed, walled-in Residents are moving back to Saidiyah, a neighborhood once racked by sectarian violence that is now guarded by a 12-foot-high wall.

H 2 Christian Science Monitor Turkey aims for clout as regional mediator Back-channel discussions between Syria and Israel are being facilitated by Turkey, which has close ties to Israel and growing ties to Syria. The United States is supportive of the effort.

Joint Communiqué: Turkey-United States Economic Partnership Commission, Washington, D.C. (May 2, 2008) | Türkçe

Turkiye Polisi Washington'da Think-Tank Acti

Kurdish rebels threaten suicide attacks against US

Turkish PM's Office Denies Reports on Party Plans

Erdoğan denies he is planning to form new party

Turkish PM's office denies reports on party plans

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Turkish military hijacks US stance on Turkey

AKP'nin gözü Türkiye'nin bölgesel rolünü güçlendirmekte
SEMİH EL MUAYETE

Ankara'yla Iraklı Kürtleri aynı masaya oturtmalıyız
Paul D. Eaton

Türkiye'ye füze savunma sistemi

Turkey's Headscarf Legislation: The Negative Impact on EU Accession
Washington Institute for Near East Policy

TURKEY TAKES FIRST STEP TOWARD A PROFESSIONAL ARMY Eurasia Daily Monitor

Susurluk and the Legacy of Turkey’s Dirty War (Terrorism Monitor

Turkish Alevis fight back against religion lessons

Turkey PM denies planning new party

Turkish PM: New party will beat any legal ban

OLDEST TEMPLE ON EARTH DISCOVERED IN TURKEY
EurasiaNet

FT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Turkey is test of EU's attitude to Islamic nations

Caution at Turkey inflation data

Savaş Süzal ABD neden AKP'nin kapatılmasına ilgi duymuyor?

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit

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

PKK offshoot threatens suicide attacks on US interests

PKK'lı Behoz'dan itiraflar!

Türkiye Kerkük'te çözüm için ağırlığını koyuyor

TAMER KORKMAZ

Kuzey Irak'la “Yeni Sayfa”

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Kürtler Türkiye ile birleşmek istiyor!..

PKK yalnızlaşıyor

PKK'nın korkunç planı

DTP heyeti Talabani ve Barzani’yle görüşecek

Kurdish forces fortify border to block PKK infiltration

Özal’ın projesini tartışma zamanıdır

İşte yerle bir olan PKK kampları

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 5 May 08

Mahkeme, Roj TV'yi öven DTP'li başkanları sorumlu davranmaya çağırdı

The CPJ urged Kurdistan President Barzani to publicly investigate a spate of violent attacks against the press

The Other Iraq - The Committee to Protect Journalists reports on Masud Barzani and Jalal Talabani's increasing harassment of the independent press, especially that which criticizes growing corruption within the Iraqi Kurdish government. Here.

Kurdistan: The Other Iraq [Michael Rubin]

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