Middle East Policy articles from June 2006

Middle East Policy archives from June 2006

Editor's note.
June 22, 2006... People demand freedom of speech in compensation for the freedom of thought they never use, said Danish philosopher Soren Kirkegaard. Irony aside, being able to say what we please is basic to the American way of life and form of government. We...

Is there a responsible exit from the strategic ambush in Iraq?(Discussion)
June 22, 2006... The following is an edited transcript of the forty-fourth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on April 21, 2006, in the U.S. Capitol with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., presiding. ...

Interview: Azzam Tamimi.(Tamimi Interview)(Interview)
June 22, 2006... Dr. Tamimi is director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London and a member of the Conflicts Forum advisory board. He was previously director of the Islamic Movement Parliamentary Office in Amman, Jordan. He is the author of...

Shiites in Lebanon: the key to democracy.
June 22, 2006... President George W. Bush said after a late-January 2006 meeting with visiting Lebanese parliamentarian Saad Hariri, "It will be very important for the region for Lebanon's democracy to be able to reach its full potential." The significance of...

Arab women's development: how relevant are UNDP measurements?(United Nations Development Program)
June 22, 2006... The Beijing International Women's Conference was held in 1995. In the same year, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) introduced two main gender indicators in its annual Human Development Report: the Gender-Related Development Index...

The United States and Libya: from confrontation to normalization.
June 22, 2006... Relations between the United States and Libya have experienced a staggering improvement since the close of the 1990s. The normalization that has taken place in a relationship characterized by three decades of mutual hatred is the result of a...

How can the U.S. reopen for business to the Arab world?(SYMPOSIUM: U.S.-ARAB BUSINESS)
June 22, 2006... The following is an edited transcript of the forty-third in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council The meeting was held on April 7, 2006, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),...

Nuclear Iran: perils and prospects.
June 22, 2006... On April 11, 2006, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, proudly and triumphantly announced that the Islamic Republic had joined "the club of nuclear countries." Calling it "a very historic moment" of epochal significance, he said that Iranian...

Israel and nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.(Bahgat: Israel and Nuclear Proliferation)
June 22, 2006... Since the late 1960s, Israel has been considered the sixth nation in the world and the first in the Middle East to have acquired a nuclear-weapons capability. An accurate assessment of Israel's nuclear program is almost impossible, given that...

Privatizing foreign policy.
June 22, 2006... In 1977, the venerable foreign-policy expert George Kennan, made the following observation: Our actions in the field of foreign affairs are the convulsive reactions of politicians to an internal political life dominated by vocal minorities."...

The Middle East in 2025: implications for U.S. policy *.
June 22, 2006... Conjuring a world 20 years from now is a very difficult task; imagining the volatile Middle East is even more hazardous. Uncertainties regarding the global distribution of power, the shifting capabilities of, and alliances among, regional...

Massacre in Munich: The Manhunt for the Killers Behind the 1972 Olympics Massacre.(One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God")(Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response)(Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Massacre in Munich: The Manhunt for the Killers behind the 1972 Olympics Massacre, by Michael Bar-Zohar and Eitan Haber. The Lyons Press, 2005. 231 pages. $14.95, paperback. One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics...

Neo-Conned!: Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq, and Neo-Conned! Again: Hypocrisy, Lawlessness, and the Rape of Iraq.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Neo-Conned!: Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq, and Neo-Conned! Again: Hypocrisy, Lawlessness, and the Rape of Iraq, D.L. O'Huallachain and J. Forrest Sharpe, editors. Vienna, Virginia: Light in the Darkness Publications, 2005....

Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs, Paul Aarts & Gerd Nonneman, editors. London: Hurst & Company, 2005.462 pages. $50.00, hardcover. Saudi Arabia has always seemed a mystery to most Americans. An...