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From Foreign Affairs, Richard Holbrooke on The Next President: Mastering a Daunting Agenda The next U.S. president will inherit a more difficult set of international challenges than any predecessor since World War II.

Robert Kagan on The September 12 Paradigm: America, the World, and George W. Bush The next administration must learn from Bush's mistakes, but should not shy away from using U.S. power to promote American values

Christian Science Monitor Iran, U.S. step cautiously toward dialogue Signals from both Tehran and Washington are often misinterpreted and the subject of attack on the domestic stages in both countries

The Times Return to 1815 is Europe's way forward

The Congress of Vienna divided the continent into spheres of influence. Similar rules are needed now Christopher Meyer

Gareth Porter Why Iraqi 'Client' Blocked US Long-Term Presence

Why CIA Veterans Are Scared of McCain by Laura Rozen

IHT Realists unite By LESLIE H. GELB Now is the moment to forge a new, broader, politically potent coalition of realists to shape U.S. foreign policy

Making peace with Syria

By ALAIN GRESH Are Europe and France and the next American administration ready to push for peace between Syria and Israel?

McClatchy Maliki's growing defiance of U.S. worries allies and critics

The Times Why America needs a post-Bush makeover The US has lost many of its natural supporters and allies in recent years. Here are six changes that would help

Bronwen Maddox

Russia exploits a limp EU summit

European Union agrees to send hundreds of observers to monitor Russia’s compliance with the supposed ceasefire

CSM U.S. hands over Anbar, Iraq's once-deadliest region Anbar Province is where 1 of every 3 US fatalities in Iraq occurred

E.U. talks tough on Russia

In an emergency session Monday, European Union leaders threatened to postpone talks on a pact with Russia unless Russian troops pull back from positions in Georgia

Is the U.S. Army ready for conventional war? Focusing only on counterinsurgency and nation-building is unwise. It must prepare to fight other armies.

Sarah Palin: a bold choice, or a desperate one? So far, so good: McCain's VP pick has electrified conservatives.

Boston Globe A US role in Syrian-Israeli peace The Bush administration should open the diplomatic toolbox for the Israeli-Syrian talks as it seems to be doing for Iran and North Korea. (By Robert Pelletreau and Edward S. Walker, Boston Globe)

Independent Patrick Cockburn: White House strategy is to help McCain win in November

Leading Article: A last chance for Russia to come in from the cold

Mary Dejevsky: The destructive prejudices of Europe's new members

Andrew Sullivan Wily Obama beats McCain on strategy

An interview with Michael Hudson, author of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.

An interview with Paul Kennedy, a man still unafraid of tackling the grand strategies of empire and war; and contrary to expectations

Slate Sarah Surprise Palin's candidacy is fun to cover but raises serious questions about McCain's judgment. John Dickerson

LRB Past Its Peak Michael Klare on the Oil Crisis “Unlike the oil ‘shocks’ of the 1970s, the current energy crisis is almost certain to be long-lasting. None of the quick fixes proposed by pundits and politicians – drilling in protected wilderness and maritime areas, curbs on commodity speculators, pressure on members of Opec to increase output – is likely to have much impact. In 1973-74 and again in 1979-80, events in the Middle East led to a sharp reduction in the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, causing a contraction in global supplies and a rise in energy prices, and thus sparking a global recession. But when equilibrium of a sort was restored to the region, the oil began to flow again and the crisis passed. Now, however, the imbalance between supply and demand is largely due to factors inherent in oil commerce itself – and so is less easily solved.”

What Happened to Iraq? - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review opinion

Wall Street Journal 'Stop! Or We'll Say Stop Again!'
Europe tries to get serious about Russia's invasion of Georgia

Pakistan's Next President Is a Category 5 Disaster

By Bret Stephens Global View Yes, it is possible to make a mockery of democracy.

NYRB Georgia and the Balance of Power By George Friedman
The Russian invasion of Georgia has not changed the balance of power in Eurasia. It has simply announced that the balance of power had already shifted.

New York Times U.S. Hands Back a Quieter Anbar The handover of the Iraqi province, once a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency, marked a long-delayed milestone

DAVID BROOKS What the Palin Pick Says The Sarah Palin pick allows John McCain to run the way he wants to — not as the old goat running against the upstart, but as the crusader for virtue against the forces of selfishness

Guardian United in anxiety

Editorial: The emergency EU summit on Russia may be declared a washout by some, but a crisis cannot be solved in an afternoon

Putin still pulls the strings Simon Tisdall: There is unlikely to be a thawing of relations with the west while Russia's prime minister has a say in the Caucasus crisis

A Middle East Strategy for the West - Barry Rubin (Jerusalem Post)

BBC Shifting script The five principles of Russia's new world order

Jerusalem Post Calling Israel's bluff [ CAROLINE GLICK

Financial Times McCain: a roll-the-dice commander John McCain will not run a safe foreign policy. He adores rolling the dice. His decision to select Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate typifies the man. It is a big risk. It could turn out to be inspired. Or it might turn out to be a disaster. But it is not safe, writes Gideon Rachman

Now Basra basks With the militias quashed, Iraq’s second city has returned to something approaching normality and regional elections are in prospect

Georgia buys Iran time The situation in Europe fits Ahmadi-Nejad’s delaying strategy perfectly – for now – but the nuclear dispute is unlikely to go away

McClatchy Al Qaida has free movement in Pakistan, top official concedes Pakistan's top security official Monday admitted that al Qaida's leadership moved freely in and out of the country and vowed that "no mercy" would be shown to extremists based in its tribal territory that borders Afghanistan

Daily Star Tehran's paradoxical policy in Iraq
By Sadegh Zibakalam

No new Cold War, but ties to Russia need clarification
By David Miliband

Tom Barnett KnoxNews. Helping Iraq cut economic deals with others

Oil is too valuable to drill

The reason not to drill for oil is this: Our descendants will desperately need it later on. (By Jed Horne, Boston Globe)

Daily Telegraph EU is too faint hearted The mounting threat of Russia gives European leaders a chance to find a sense of common purpose.

H 2 Murat Yetkin Gül, Ermenistan maçına gidiyor

Özdem Sanberk Yeni büyük oyun ve istikrar platformu Batı’dan teşvik görmeden Gürcistan Platform’a gelmez. Bunu sağlamak da Türk diplomasisine düşüyor. Amerika ve Avrupa Birliğine, bölgede kimsenin yararına olmayan hasmane ilişkiler ve gerginlik yerine, orta ve uzun vadede işbirliği ve dayanışmayı hedefleyen bu girişimi iyi anlatması gerekiyor. İstikrar Platformu Türkiye Ermenistan ve Azerbaycan Ermenistan ilişkileri açısından da bir fırsat yaratıyor. Tabii Kafkasya’daki barışın temel güvencesi ise Türkiye Azerbaycan dostluğu.

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