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Western Response to Escalation in Ukraine
7 February 2015 A group of distinguished scholars and former practitioners from the Atlantic Council, the Brookings Institution, the Center for a New American Security, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs have recently published a report (*) which outlines … Continue reading
Quo Vadis Turkey?
3 February 2015 Turkey’s traditional foreign policy, bitterly criticized by the present Government for having betrayed Turkey’s potential, stood on pillars. Our relations with the United States and the European Union constituted the first two. A third one was our … Continue reading
President Obama and the Middle East
1 February 2015 Five speeches delivered by President Obama are important to understanding his approach to the Middle East. These are: • Remarks to the Turkish Parliament (6 April 2009), • Remarks at the Cairo University where he addressed Moslem … Continue reading
Breaking the Syrian Deadlock
26 January 2015 With ISIS controlling swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, terrorist attacks in Paris, turmoil in Libya and Yemen, Boko Haram’s massacres in Nigeria, public discourse of the West on Syria has started to change. References to … Continue reading
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Need For a Modus Vivendi in West-Russia Relations
23 January 2015 In June 2009 President Obama visited Moscow where he expressed his desire for a “reset” in US-Russia relations. This did not happen. On 17 December 2010, Muhammed Buazizi lit the flame of the Arab Spring which … Continue reading
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Arab Spring: The Libya Lesson
21 January 2015 Measures taken by governments to quell Arab Spring revolts “caused the international community grave concern.” But no other country became the subject of a “UN sanctioned” intervention except Libya. The following may help explain why: • Qaddafi … Continue reading
