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Obama's Foreign Fiasco 21 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
It's a privilege to be an American who works on foreign policy, as I have done since the late 1970s, participating in a small way in the grand project of finding my country's place in the world. But n...
Why Was Enoch Powell Condemned as a Racist and Not Charles de Gaulle? 20 Aug 2013 | 02:16 am
The French and British empires historically had different premises, with the former (in the Roman tradition) focused more on culture and the latter more on race, hierarchy, and family. This difference...
Evidence that Morsi Actually Lost the Egyptian Presidency 19 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
Just days after his apparent victory, Cynthia Farahat and I expressed our skepticism about the validity of these election returns: SCAF exploits the Muslim Brotherhood and other proxies as its civilia...
Middle East Studies Specialists Get It Wrong 11 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
An occasional series of bloopers. 1. Bruce K. Rutherford, associate professor of political science at Colgate University, published a book titled Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy ...
The Right Moment for Israel's Danny Danon? 6 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
"Lunacy." That's how Danny Danon describes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to hand over 104 killers to the Palestinian Authority as a "goodwill gesture." He's hardly alone, as many observ...
On Closed Embassies, the Worldwide Travel Alert, and Wimpitude 4 Aug 2013 | 12:27 am
In April, the city of Boston was effectively under military curfew because two terrorists were on the loose. Now, fears of al-Qaeda attacking has led the U.S. government temporarily to close 21 U.S. e...
Will Turkey's Military Emulate Egypt's? 1 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am
That is the important question asked today by Steve Coll: Will Egypt's counter-revolution inspire Turkey's fragmented, avowedly secular military—which once dominated the country's politics, via coup-m...
Fixing Egypt's Economy: No More Military Macaroni 31 Jul 2013 | 07:53 am
Since July 3, Gen. Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi has made it clear who runs Egypt: he does. He faces two great challenges. One is the Islamist element, spoiling for a fight to take back the power it so recentl...
What to Want in Egypt 30 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
In the aftermath of the coup d'état in Egypt, a consensus has emerged, to cite an anonymous Obama administration official, that "Trying to break the neck of the [Muslim] Brotherhood is not going to be...
Thoughts on the Release of 104 Palestinian Murderers 28 Jul 2013 | 04:14 am
Israeli leaders have a long history of making lopsided trades with their Arab enemies. These include: 1985 – 1,150 prisoners for 3 captured Israelis 2000 – 450 Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli bodies and ...
