ISN Special Issue January 2010
In the small Italian town of Rosarno, riots erupted in early January as illegal workers protested against the racist attack of two men by the criminal organization that had arranged for their migration and employment in Calabria. The riots marked a symptom of a wider problem in Italy’s south – the [...]
The PEW Forum December 2009
Executive Summary
For more than half a century, the United Nations and numerous international organizations have affirmed the principle of religious freedom.1 For just as many decades, journalists and human rights groups have reported on persecution of minority faiths, outbreaks of sectarian violence and other pressures on religious individuals and communities in [...]
Arab Reform Initiative
The Arab public has a very good understanding of the concept of reform and a desire to see reform measures implemented in various different areas. The area most in need of reform, according to the respondents, is the economy, with political reform and tackling corruption given as the next [...]
A View from Venus
By Peter Gill
“Intelligence” may well be the final frontier insofar as human rights are concerned. It represents a range of activities that have been carried out by rulers since time immemorial—spies have been characterized as the “second oldest profession” (Knightley 1987)—and, even when organized more formally in state bureaucracies from the [...]
The Researchers’ View
Steven Wooding, Jonathan Grant
Prepared for the Higher Education Funding Council for England- RAND Europe
This report, prepared for and funded by the Joint Funding Bodies’ Review of Research Assessment, presents findings from a series of nine facilitated workshops held with academics and research managers across the UK in December 2002. The objective of the [...]
By WILLIAM A. EDDY
BEFORE THE ALLIED LANDING ON THE COAST OF North Africa on November 8, 1942, the handful of us who knew the date and place of the landings were terrified lest we might talk in our sleep. In those days before the landings it was imperative that one neither cancel nor increase normal [...]
Israeli Settlement Activities & Related Policies
Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem
Throughout history, Jerusalem has thrived as an important political and cultural center and as a religious focal point for the three monotheistic religions. This status has resulted in numerous struggles taking place in an attempt to possess this significant city.
From [...]
Grant F. Smith
Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRMEP)
In this story Grant reveals the emerging details of the secret battles between the Kennedys and the Israel lobby.
AIPAC Founder Isaiah L. Kenen and Ted Kennedy
The lobby’s accolades for the late Ted Kennedy and his support of Israel mask the generally [...]
Recent fighting in Pakistan has displaced at least 2.4 million people. USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Imtiaz Ali testified on July 29 before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs about “Responding to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Crisis in Pakistan.”
July 2009 | Congressional [...]
Jamal Dajani Link TV –
The last time Fateh, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), held a general convention was two decades ago in 1989 in Algiers. Next week, some 2,000 members of the organization, from both the territories and the Diaspora, are expected to descend on the town [...]
Recidivism or Reassertion
By Anthony H. Cordesman
CSIS
Any visitor to today’s Iraq can see, that violence has been sharply reduced, that US and Iraqi forces have done much to meet the mix of remaining threats, and that Iraqi forces are making real progress. At the same time, any planning for US troop withdrawals [...]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Benjamin Netanyahu is in a bind. Israel is facing arguably unprecedented pressure to halt all settlement activity, led by a new and surprisingly determined U.S. administration. But the prime minister also heads a distinctly right-wing coalition and faces intense domestic pressure from settlers and their allies. However important, what will emerge from current discussions [...]
