APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from October 2003

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from October 2003

The US Is Shaping A New Order In The Greater Middle East - A Survey.
October 27, 2003... Editor's Note: This is the beginning of a three-part survey on the way in which the US is changing the established order in the Middle East and is in the process of planning and implementing the emergence of a new order more in tune with...

Part 1: Afghanistan & Iraq - The New Order Is Yet To Take Shape.
October 27, 2003... The American decision to create a new order in the Greater Middle East was crystallised immediately in the weeks after 9/11. But the idea that such wide-ranging change was necessary in the region had begun to take shape many years earlier....

Afghanistan - A Test Of Endurance.
October 27, 2003... The Taliban regime in Afghanistan was ousted within a month in October-November 2001. Since then, the US has discovered what the British and Russians have done earlier - that Afghanistan is a country that cannot be "stabilised" in the...

Iraq - The Make Or Break Experiment.
October 27, 2003... Yet Afghanistan is not the real concern for the US at the moment, as shown by the way it has slipped out of the media focus among other things. The primary concern is the stabilisation of Iraq, where the challenge to the US presence may prove...