Elections, Political Transitions And Foreign Policy In East Asia: a Conference Report
The U.S. elections in November 2008 will bring new leadership and reconsideration of policies toward Asia. In China, the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Elections, Political Transitions And Foreign Policy In East Asia: a Conference Report
A nation must think before it acts.
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Taiwan under President Ma Ying-jeou
I. A Horse of a Different Color? Democracy and Distrust in Taiwan Following a seventeen-point victory in Taiwan’s presidential...
Los Zetas: the Ruthless Army Spawned by a Mexican Drug Cartel
Drug-related violence in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, the major portal for U.S.-Mexican commerce, left the city of...
The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
My book The Much Too Promised Land had a very strange origin in the sense that I really never...
An Israeli View of the Iranian Nuclear Challenge
My thinking on Iran is more or less mainstream thinking in Israel, what many Israelis within the defense and...
Turkey and the European Union: Keeping a Friendly Distance
The alienation between Turkey and the EU has grown on both sides to the point that more and more...
Kosovo: The Revenge of CNN and the Politics of Emotion
To paraphrase Talleyrand, the invention and recognition of a “state” called Kosovo by the United States and Brussels in...
The Revolution Will be Brought to You by Text Messaging
During the 2007 protests in Myanmar, the media reported that the opposition was coordinating their protests by text messaging...
Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
The events of 9/11 were a particularly lethal expression of the globalization of religious passion. Yet those events were...
Kenya Update
Unfortunately, since I wrote on the situation in Kenya last month, the prospects have not improved and the country...