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H1 The Economist Unhappy America If America can learn from its problems, instead of blaming others, it will come back stronger

America and the Middle East More U-turns, please

CNAS Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bruce W. Jentleson, Ivo H. Daalder, Antony J. Blinken, Lael Brainard, Kurt M. Campbell, Michael A. McFaul, James C. O’Brien, Gayle E. Smith and James B. Steinberg (pdf)

New York Times Obama, Vague on Issues, Pleases Crowds in Europe Many Europeans see Barack Obama’s candidacy as a sign of hope for a more flexible, less ideological America. Governments and politicians are not so sure.

DAVID BROOKS Playing Innocent Abroad It will take politics and power to address challenges, the two factors that dare not speak their name in Barack Obama’s lofty peroration in Berlin.

Remarks of Senator Obama in Berlin Germany —VIDEO. (29 min.)

Gerhard Spörl / Spiegel Online: No. 44 Has Spoken — Anyone who saw Barack Obama at Berlin's Siegessäule on Thursday could recognize that this man will become the 44th president of the United States. He is more than ambitious — he wants to lay claim to become the president of the world.

Obama's Berlin Speech: People of the World, Look at Me

Europe and Obama: Short-Term Relationship - Josef Joffe, New Republic

Ha’aretz – Obama to PM: Iran action legitimate only if talks fail Democratic candidate says willing to hold direct talks with Tehran, give them chance to change nuclear policy

Shin Bet head Diskin: Cease-fire with Hamas unlikely to hold Israel's ability to inspire fear among its enemies is on the decline, security chief tells Haaretz

Washington Post Maliki Votes for Obama By Charles Krauthammer, In a stunning upset, Barack Obama this week won the Iraq primary

Bush, US Military Pressure Iraqis on Withdrawal

Neocons Lash Out at White House for Diplomatic Overtures to Iran

Is Petraeus Preparing to Betray the Neo-Cons? by Jim Lobe

Daily Star Changes in US foreign policy style and substance are welcomed and overdue

Would an Iranian nuclear bomb be a great disaster? By Robert Skidelsky

Rand Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries: How Deterrable Are They Likely to Be? Read the Full Report

Israel: Iran to Get New Russian Air Defenses by '09 –

Brent Scowcroft Neutral In Presidential Race

"Closing Time: Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz" International Security Summer 2008 Caitlin Talmadge (pdf 158k) How might Iran retaliate in the aftermath of a limited Israeli or U.S. strike? Iran could halt or impede traffic in the Strait of Hormuz for a month or more. U.S. attempts to reopen the waterway likely would escalate rapidly into sustained, large-scale air and naval operations during which Iran could impose significant economic and military costs on the United States—even if Iranian operations were not successful in truly closing the strait. The aftermath of limited strikes on Iran would be complicated and costly.

America's New Global Challenge By: Ivo Daalder and Anne-Marie Slaughter | The Boston Globe
As Barack Obama travels abroad this week, he is finding a world that still wants America to be engaged, but no longer necessarily waits for America to take the lead. The challenge for the next president is to understand how much has changed and how America can best pursue its national interests in such a different international environment

Financial Times World must look to Europe as capitalisms clash

The Continent could play a big role in shaping the new economic order if it could only marshal its forces effectively. The 27-member EU is now the world’s biggest economy thanks to enlargement and the euro’s strength, says John Thornhill

Iraq oil dispute Proposed contracts process is step forward but no substitute for clear legal framework, says Yahia Said of the Revenue Watch Institute

Gazprom and Russia's Energy Imperialism By: Michael J. Economides and Nate Evans | World Politics Review An ogre of a giant looms to the east of Europe, occasionally in the shape of a country, other times in the shape of a company, the two often indistinguishable. Russia and Gazprom are poised to devour the whole of Europe and its Asian neighbors

China and Russia’s Geographic Divide By: Peter Zeihan | 1913 Intel China has a booming manufacturing economy, while Russia boasts growing exports of raw materials. But a closer look at the geography of the two paints a very different picture, while the history of the two tells an extraordinarily different story. If anything, it is no small miracle that the two have never found themselves facing each other in a brutal war.

Asia Times For Iran, respect above all else Iranian leaders have placed clear emphasis on the importance of the respect displayed by representatives of the countries dealing with Tehran's nuclear portfolio, including the United States. This goes to the heart of the difficulties in dealing with Iran, and offers a path that could lead to unexpected breakthroughs, including Tehran's ties with Israel. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Al Awsat Spiderman in Tehran : Amir Taheri

The Economist Iran Who runs it? The puzzling relationship between supreme leader and president

Syria Red lines that cannot be crossed

LA Times Into no-man's land

By Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway Bush's latest unilateral move in Iraq would imperil troops and hamper his successor

Time Israel's Debate Over an Iran Strike

Salon The Obama show lands in Israel He got a rock-star reception here, but an intriguing question lingers: Which U.S. presidential candidate is better for this country?
By Aluf Benn

Samir al-Taki’s talk at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC

Guardian Europe's Obama cheers ring hollow in the Middle East Jonathan Steele: Here the US leader has much less power. Israel calls the shots, and the reality on the ground is gloomy and anti-peace

Back to the future in Iraq and Afghanistan Simon Tisdall: Barack Obama's proposal for a switch of focus risks precipitating another double-headed military misadventure

Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words?,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group

Juan Cole A Social History of the Surge

Adult Supervision on Iran From Brzezinski, Scowcroft, and Ignatius
By Steve Clemons

CFR Current and Future Trends in Special Operations Warfare Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities) Michael Vickers

World Politics Review: Strategy for the Next American President: An Interview with Ivo Daalder and Bruce Jentleson

Hedging Against Uncertainty: US Strategy in an Interdependent World William Hogan

EurasiaNet Iran: Tehran Plays for Time as Nuclear Talks Enter Crucial Phase Discussions over the fate of Iran’s nuclear program have entered a critical stage. Faced with the stiffening resolve of the international community, Iranian leaders are frantically maneuvering to find a way to avoid the expansion of sanctions against their country. With no clear solution to its dilemma at hand, however, Tehran appears to be playing for time.

Ford posts the worst quarterly performance in its history

WINEP Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks

Slate How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? by Fred Kaplan

Protectionism goes into reverse The long trend to remove import barriers to international trade may now be over. Reversing the process, countries that produce raw materials are instituting curbs on exports as they regain long-lost purchasing power. Asia is in the lead. - Joergen Oerstroem Moeller

American Prospect Why McCain Should Embrace Withdrawal
The United States must listen to the Iraqi government's demands or risk endangering the gains that have been made during the past 18 months

Iran, Israel, and the risk of war , Paul Rogers

The FP Interview: Richard Holbrooke on Radovan Karadzic

Honorable Exit From Empire
by Patrick Buchanan

Roubini Video Interview on Tech Ticker: Roubini: “Bear Market Only Half Over, But It’s Not Armageddon”

H 2 Daily Star Turkey's reform process is threatened
By Steven A. Cook

Why Are Neocons Attacking Turkey? Foreign Policy In Focus

Türkiye güçlü İran’la yaşar

SAAD MUHYU

Asia Times CHAN AKYA
A Turkish theater for World War III Turkey has been sold to the Saudis at a bargain price for Riyadh's assistance to the George W Bush administration in pushing down the price of oil ahead of the United States presidential elections this year. The path chosen is the same as that used to turn Pakistan into a breeding ground for terrorists, with an accelerated timetable in keeping with a preset script. Around the corner, a civilizational war beckons.

Al-Qaeda hostage plot suspected
A Turkish radical group and al-Qaeda are believed to be behind the July 9 attack on the United States consulate in Istanbul. The official line is that the joint operation was either a hit-and-run or a suicide mission. But details now emerging indicate a plan to occupy the consulate and take hostages, pointing to a possible new trend

Turkey's Ruling Party Risks Being Dissolved as Court Deliberates
Wall Street Journal

EDM THE AKP AND THE TURKISH MILITARY BOTH PREPARE FOR NEW ERAS

France seeks better security and defense ties with Turkey

Chernobyl Memories, Cancer Deaths Haunt Turkey's Nuclear Plans
Bloomberg

EurasiaNet Turkey: "Muslim Calvinists" in Anatolia Show How Piety Can Blend with Modernity

Ankara tries to draw Cyprus into spotlight, asking US to appoint envoy

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

ERDAL ŞAFAKKerkük bombası

Kandil'i çıldırtan itiraf!

Zap’ta 13 hedefe gece balyozu

Bizi teslim alanlar
Alman değildi!

Almanya’nın PKK’ya yanıtı tutuklama oldu

State Dept Inspector to Investigate Texas Oil Company's Deal in Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 24 Jul 08

Cevdet Aşkın

İKT ve Arap grubundan Ankara'ya tam destek

VOA News - Dismissed Turkish Mayor Continues Quest to Make Kurdish Language Official

Iraqi President Discusses Provincial Election Law With US Envoy ...

President Talabani, Crocker Discuss Ways to Endorse Provincial Polls Law

Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Criticizes Provincial Elections Law

Kurdish Defiance Likely to Delay Iraqi Elections

TUSIAD Suggests Establishing Ministry for Developing East & South East of Turkey

Keep an Eye on Those Kurds - Marc Lynch, Abu Aardvark Keep an eye on the special meeting of the Kurdish Parliament called for today over Kurdish outrage over the Kirkuk provisions in the just-passed provincial elections law, which Kurdish leadership is calling a "coup against the Constitution." The Kurdish bloc is calling for a re-vote, which might make sense but would be of dubious legality. Some (overly excitable?) Arab and Iraqi reports suggest that in addition to Talabani vetoing the provincial election law (over which the Kurds walked out of Parliament) the Kurds could pull out of Maliki's government and potentially even bring it down.

DTP’den Gül’e af çağrısı

Demirtaş’a ‘çürük’ten 1 yıl hapis

Kurds call for revote on election laws

PKK’lılar dağcıları üç gün mağarada tutmuş