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Religion in World Affairs

Its Role in Conflict and Peace

Author: David Smock

Series: USIP Special Reports

This paper addresses the potentially positive role of religion in peacemaking and conflict resolution, commenting on the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) field work experiences. It examines the link between religion and conflict, reviews the experiences with religious activism, mediation and facilitation and discusses [...]

Neo-Conservatism Explained

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Lew Rockwell Archives

Commentators across the spectrum have finally clued in to neo-conservatism as the intellectual framework of the Bush administration. We are suddenly faced with long think pieces on the role of political philosopher Leo Strauss in influencing the [...]

Project for the New American Century

Tom Barry

The International Relations Center

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was established in 1997 by a number of leading neoconservative writers and pundits to advocate aggressive U.S. foreign policies and “rally support for American global leadership.” One of the group’s founding documents claimed, “a Reaganite policy of military strength [...]

The Neoconservative Convergence

Why the “vast right-wing conspiracy” is working.

By: Charles Krauthammer
From the issue of July 05, 2005, Commentary magazine

The post-cold-war era has seen a remarkable ideological experiment: over the last fifteen years, each of the three major American schools of foreign policy—realism, liberal internationalism, and neoconservatism—has taken its turn at running things. (A fourth school, [...]

EXILE (1)

Fiction

by: Hichem Karoui

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Now that everything is over or nearly over, I can say that it was not bad at all. If I had to put it back from the start, I will certainly do it again, without great changes. On the whole, I am almost satisfied. With the days, the weeks, the [...]

Can the Right War Be Won?

Defining American Interests in Afghanistan
Foreign Affairs – July/August 2009
Steven Simon
STEVEN SIMON is Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1994 to 1999, he served on the National Security Council in various positions, including Senior Director for Transnational Threats.
The Obama administration recently completed its 60-day review of [...]

A Conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton

Lebanon: Future of the Middle East – Saad Hariri

Geopolitics, Strategy and the Future with Henry Kissinger

Classical Islam: a source of religious literature

Edited and translated by
Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin
Preface
The genesis of this book lies with Norman Calder, from shortly before he died in 1998.
In 1997 Norman had been approached by a publisher to put together a book of readings
on Islam. While neither a full prospectus nor a contract for the work had [...]

Islamist Parties and Democracy: going back to the origins

Husain Haqqani & Hillel Fradkin
Journal of Democracy

How should we understand the emergence and the nature of Islamist parties? Can they reasonably be expected not just to participate in democratic politics but even to respect the norms of liberal democracy? These questions lie at the heart of the issues that we have been asked to address.
In [...]

Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East

Author: Barry Rubin
This book provides a history and analysis of political events in the Persian Gulf since the Iranian revolution as well as an analysis of U.S. policy. The purpose of this book was to provide an explanation of how the Persian Gulf area had developed into an area of such importance and turmoil. [...]