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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, [...]

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. [...]

Israeli Conundrum: ‘How to Deal with Iran’

By Ramzy Baroud
Israeli officials face a conundrum that may take more than military muscle-flexing to resolve: how to deal with Iran? The solution to this dilemma will require no less than sheer political genius.
It must be frustrating for Israeli policymakers and their friends and backers elsewhere to stand idle as Iran openly [...]

USIP Addresses Refugee Crisis in Pakistan

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 [...]

T.E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom

To S.A.
I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in stars
To earn you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house,
that your eyes might be shining for me
When we came.
Death seemed my servant on the road, till we were near
and saw you waiting:
When you smiled, and [...]

Halakah and Sharia’ and Legal Issues

Webcasts from the Library of Congress
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 06/17/2009
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes
DESCRIPTION: Judaic and Islamic legal systems (based on Halakah and Sharia’, respectively) have endured for centuries despite the rapid changes and challenges of the modern world –from exploration of outer space to human cloning. They serve as a testimony to the relevance [...]

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