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H1 Washington Post Obama Secures Nomination 

 

Washington Quarterly Summer    Statecraft in the Middle East Dennis Ross

 

Sanctions against Iran: A Promising Struggle Michael Jacobson

 

Obama's First Test: Handling Hillary - Roger Simon, The Politico

 

Clinton's Exit Strategy - Charlie Cook, National Journal

 

Debka Exclusive: Limited US attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards bases in sight  

 

US-Iraq Security Pact Shapes Up as Major Battle

 

NPQ Fareed Zakaria: BARACK OBAMA MUST FACE POST-AMERICAN WORLD

 

CFR Negotiating with Hostile States - Council on Foreign Relations

 

Newsweek Campaign '08: Obama's Foreign Policy Advisers

 

Campaign '08: McCain's Foreign Policy Advisers

Olmert Talks Peace at Aipac Conference by Eli Lake

 

Policy Review Deterring Terrorists What Israel has learned
Shmuel Bar

 

Expanded Deterrence Broadening the threat of retaliation Elbridge A. Colby

 

New York Times  THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Time for Radical Pragmatism We need a radical departure because the course that Israelis and Palestinians are on does not have enough energy to produce a solution.

 

Next on Agenda Is Clinton’s Role  Barack Obama must work to repair relations with Clinton and her supporters and decide whether to offer her a spot on the ticket.

 

UN Says Solving Food Crisis Could Cost $30 Billion

 

Chief Cleric Says Iran Doesn’t Seek Nuclear Arms

 

Rice Calls Dialogue With Iran Pointless

 

Financial Times US naval chief sees role for contacts with Iran The top US naval commander in the Middle East says contacts between the US and Iranian navies would be useful once Tehran stopped sponsoring violence inside Iraq

 

LEADER: Time-bomb of Arab youth bulge LEADER: Demographic time bomb in Mideast

 

Dollar surges as Bernanke speaks out The dollar surged while oil and gold tumbled after Ben Bernanke surprised markets by making clear the Federal Reserve does not want the US currency to weaken any further because of the risks to inflation

 

IHT  A bell tolls for Ahmadinejad Iran's faction-ridden political system shows signs of a promising shift.

 

The paradox of Muslim weakness

By SADANAND DHUME

The sorry state of Muslim societies is what makes Islamism such a formidable force.

 

Thinking About the Future of Food: The Chatham House Food Supply Scenarios Source: Chatham House Full Paper (PDF; 259 KB)

 

Olmert's Dilemma and Israel's Multi-front Negotiations by Barry Rubin

 Oil and the Saudi Peace Offensive | Stratfor

Iran: Reversals on the Foreign Policy Front Manifest at Home .

 

SPIEGEL Interview with US Senator Chuck Hagel: 'We Have Done Terrible Damage'

 

Andrew Sullivan The Clintons Threaten 

 

Azerbaijan: Baku Likely to Reject Russian Offer to Buy Natural Gas BY ROVSHAN ISMAYILOV If you cannot beat them, try to co-opt them: that apparently is Gazprom’s operational philosophy. The Russian state-controlled energy giant on June 2 sounded out officials in Azerbaijan about large-scale purchases of Azerbaijani natural gas. But Baku seems unenthused about doing a deal

 

How to Solve the Greek Dispute over Macedonia's Name By: Edward P. Joseph | Der Spiegel  The 17-year conflict over Macedonia’s official state name has taken a new turn. Greece’s successful effort to block Skopje’s entry into NATO has fueled nationalist dynamics in both countries. But there is more at stake here than a name: Macedonia’s stability -- and Kosovo’s -- rests on urgently finding a reasonable compromise with Greece

 

The Coming Energy Wars By: Rana Foroohar | Newsweek  Oil prices could hit $200 a barrel in the next few months. A year ago no one was talking about $200 oil, and now everyone in the markets is, for scary reasons

 

CFR The National Security Debate

The FP Memo: What Might Have Been in Iraq

 

WINEP Israel and America at Sixty: The Strategic Partnership at a Crossroads - Israel and America at Sixty: The Strategic Partnership at a Crossroads  (audio)

 

Wall Street Journal Why We Went to Iraq
By Fouad Ajami It's not easy to tell people of the threats and dangers they have been spared.

 

The Coming Oil Investment Boom By Holman W. Jenkins Jr. Business World: The market is doing what it does with supply and demand.

 

Obama Needs a Better Reading List By Thomas Frank
Fighting Words:
Fareed Zakaria offers a tired free-trade story.

 

The Obama We Don't KnowAmericans have a right to learn more about the least experienced nominee in modern times

Bernanke Bolsters Weak Dollar

Bernanke said the dollar's steep fall has led to worrisome inflation and stressed the Fed's vigilance on the issue. His comments about the dollar strengthened a conviction among some traders that the currency's long slump may be over. (Remarks)

 

POLITICS-US: How Cheney Outfoxed His Foes on Iran and EFPs

 

WINEP Energy in Danger: Iran, Oil, and the West  In this entry in The Washington Institute's "Agenda: Iran" series, Gulf expert Simon Henderson analyzes how the United States and its allies can loosen, or even bypass, the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint.

 

U.S. Foreign Policy and Regime Instability  SSI
A 72-page US monograph analyzing the extent to which intrastate and interstate conflict and terrorism are influenced by military and foreign policy relationships with the US

 

Half Full or Half Empty? Assessing Prospects for Peace in Lebanon
USIP

 

Guardian Fuel for people first Editorial: Summit should press the case for stopping biofuel production where there is any evidence that it is interfering with food supplies

 

Time Perpetuating the al-Qaeda-Iraq Myth

Juan Cole The First Web 2.0 President?

US-Iraq security pact shapes up as major battle

 

Al-Arabiyah Views Syria-Iran Security Accord, Impact of Syria- Israel Peace Talks

 

Iraqi Foreign Minister Denies Failure of Negotiations on Security Pact With US

 

Report: Assad says talks with Israel need US sponsor

 

Ha’aretz  Olmert to AIPAC: Iranian threat must be stopped by all possible means Speaking in Washington conference, Rice stressed the urgency of establishing a Palestinian state

 

Editorial Is war preferable? Most members of the security cabinet reject the tahadiyeh, the temporary cease-fire that Israel and Hamas are negotiating indirectly via Egypt.

 

Assad says talks hinge on current Israeli cabinet According to one report, Syria president says direct talks will begin only next year

 

FT COMMENT: Useful dos and do nots for an economy set on growth By Martin Wolf Achieving sustained, rapid growth turns out to be very hard. This is no objection to the findings of the Growth Report – it is an admission of how little we know about such a complex process

 

CFR What Does It Take to Achieve High, Sustainable, and Inclusive Growth in Developing Countries? (Audio)

The Folly of 'Asymmetric War'
Michael J. Mazarr

 

The Newest Trends in Terror By: Peter Brookes | New York Post
The good news is that al Qaeda's in bad shape; the bad news is that the terrorist threat is evolving. If we don't adapt, the tide could turn back.

 

Policy Review Answering Edward Said  Peter Berkowitz on Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism by Ibn Warraq
Peter Berkowitz

 

Islam, the Law, and The Sovereignty of God
Accommodating Qur’anic principles to the civil religion
Mark Gould

 

NTI 2007 Annual Report: Vision and Action for a Safer World (PDF; 1.7 MB)
Source: Nuclear Threat Initiative

 

SyriaComment News (4 June 2008)

H2 Iraq Kurd PM Says Ready For Power - Sharing In Kirkuk

 

Türkiye’nin Suriye-İsrail barış atağı SONER ÇAĞAPTAY

 

IHT Turkish judicial dispute to test the EU's limits An effort by the top prosecutor in Turkey to get the governing party disbanded and its leaders barred from politics is challenging Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

 

AİHM: Türban yasağı normal

 

Babacan: 'Mahkemenin kararı nihai olacak'

AİHM'den türbana yine ret

 

Iraqi Kurdish news report: Iraqi Kurds ban PKK-linked party

 

Cagaptay The AKP's Image is Damaged

 

 Will Olmert meet Turkish FM while in Washington? Ynetnews

 

Power Race in Asia and Turkey's Asia Policy Foreign Policy Institute

 

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL Obama kazanacaksa Bush İran'ı vuracak!

 

EDM WILL AEGEAN DISPUTES CONTINUE TO BLOCK TURKISH-GREEK RECONCILIATION?

 

State of Denial
Turkey Spends Millions to Cover Up Armenian Genocide

 

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

 

Erdoğan ve Kürt sorunu
AVNİ ÖZGÜREL

 

Kürtler referandumdan vazgeçiyor

 

Iraq Kurd PM Says Ready For Power - Sharing In Kirkuk

 

Iraq's Kurds to make Baghdad new offer on oil law

 

KDP'nin casusları 16 askerin şehit düşmesine yol açtı

 

Başkent Erbil!

 

Turkish foreign minister tempering expectations for Israel-Syria talks

 

Cevdet Aşkın Barzani'den Kerkük'e veda, PKK iyice sıkıştı

 

Neither Kirkuk nor Kurdistan, only Exxon Mobil's Tune!

 

$4.5 billion development planned for Erbil

 

Is Jalal Talabani one of the few?

 

PKK'nın siyasî koluna yasak

 

Başbakan PKK’ya jest yaptı

 

Mustafa Ünal Diyarbakır'da hareketli günler

 

Türk demokrasisi Araplara örnek ALİ EL ŞERİFİ

 

Türkiye'nin attığı 'barış' tohumu tuttu

 

"Kerkük'te iktidarı paylaşabiliriz"

 

Kerkük'te referandum dışı iktidar paylaşımına hazırız

 

Barzani: Bölgemiz üzerindeki tehditler sürüyor

 

HAKAN ALBAYRAK  Kürtçe televizyon, Bahçeli, Erdoğan…

 

Beril Dedeoğlu Erbil’e konsolosluk akını

 

İran Türkiye’yi neden vursun ki!

 

Turks and Kurds [1]: sad Mesopotamia by ABDÜLBAKİ ERDOĞMUŞ*

 

Bridge of Hearts off to warm start from Diyarbakır

 

Iraqi Kurdish PM sees no threat from Turkey

 

Kürtçe yayın dağ kadrolarına jest

Turkey to Open Consulate in Basra in June

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık

 

Türkiye'nin AB üyeliği için referandum

 

AB’yle nişan tazeleme vakti geldi Andrew Finkel

 

Kıbrıs'ta çözüm sınır ötesi ittifaklarda

 

Ankara deplores France's referendum clause

 

 Greek Cypiots, Greece and France hold first ever joint drills

 

Yavuz Baydar Messages of deep concern to Condoleezza Rice

 

Rumlar KKTC'ye yardımı engellemekten vazgeçti

 

Lefkoşa’ya dev cami

 

AİHM: Adil yargılama yapılmadı

 

AKPM'den Türkiye'ye Rum azınlık çağrısı

 

Turkey Turns Cold to European Defense: Implications for Western Security By: Erdal Tatli | The Washington Institute for Near East Policy  In June 2007, Turkey decided to turn its back on European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) after a long series of negot