Fighting for Democracy While Supporting Autocracy
via Lobelog ISIS and Bahrain’s F-16 by Matar E. Matar For the second time in recent history, the United States is trading away support for democracy and fundamental human rights protections in Bahrain...
View ArticleTehran Workshop Offers Insight Into Nuclear Talks
via Lobelog by Eldar Mamedov With only a little over a month to go before the deadline for a comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear program, a group of European, Gulf and Iranian academics and...
View ArticleWhen Military Power is Not Enough
via Lobelog by Robert E. Hunter At West Point last May, President Obama said that “Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.” He continued “…US military action...
View ArticleThe US Fight Against Islamic State: Avoiding “Mission Creep”
by Wayne White Hyping the Islamic State (ISIS or IS) threat risks generating flawed policies. The White House probably is a source of frustration, as its critics claim, but others seem too eager to...
View ArticleIraqi Kurds Seek Greater Balance Between Ankara and Baghdad
by Mohammed A. Salih Erbil—After a period of frostiness, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Turkey seem intent on mending the ties, as each of the parties show signs of needing the other....
View ArticleISIS Eclipses Iran as Threat Among US Public
by Jim Lobe Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, has just released a major new poll of US public opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian...
View ArticleMaking Sense of The Turkey-ISIS Mess
by Graham E. Fuller Among the many confusing factors swirling around the whole ISIS phenomenon is the role, or roles, of Turkey in the situation. It might be helpful to tick off some of the major...
View ArticleIt’s Egypt That Needs Higher Oil Prices
by Thomas W. Lippman The country that could ultimately suffer the most damage from a sustained depression in the world price of oil could be one that is not a major producer: Egypt. Unable to sustain...
View ArticleUS Fight Against Islamic State: Long Haul Ahead
via Lobelog by Wayne White As 2014 draws to a close, there is no shortage of alternative suggestions about how to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS or IS). Most of them involve US escalation, driven by...
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Libya’s Fires
by Wayne White The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) ended on January 2 a fire that raged for days among tanks in Libya’s largest oil export terminal of Es-Sider, but the militia violence fed by...
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