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Countering Democratic Regression in Europe and Eurasia Findings from an October 16, 2009 conference at Johns Hopkins University SAIS Organizers: Adrian A. Basora and Mitchell A. Orenstein   Conference Co-Sponsors Foreign Policy Research Institute S. Richard Hirsch Chair of...

Foreign Policy  Jordan wants the United States to believe that Islamists, headlined by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Action Front (IAF) party, are the most dangerous opposition in the kingdom. Yet this is pure fiction, a ruse that exploits Western...

The Chinese navy has been throwing its weight around in East Asia. A US Navy commander asks how much longer the US can do anything about it. On the night of March 26 the Cheonan, a South Korean Navy...

Foreign Policy Compared to recent dramatic events — Qaddafi’s demise in Libya, Tunisia’s groundbreaking elections, the Coptic killings in Egypt — Jordan’s latest cabinet shuffle barely registered as a news blip. Indeed, King Abdullah’s dismissal of wildly unpopular Prime...

The Washington Times Some 150 countries appear ready to vote in the United Nations General Assembly to recognize Palestine as an “observer state” and would be ready to recognize it as a “member state” if the United States did...

Foreign Policy  Jordan unveiled a package of constitutional amendments last Sunday which offered the most drastic overhaul of the 1952 constitution ever proposed. King Abdullah promised these revisions on June 12 in a surprising televised speech. The new push...

Democracy Digest However much President Obama wants to support the democratic thrust of the Arab spring, strategic considerations place real constraints on his policy options, writes Sean Yom. But there is scope for shifting the threshold of what is...

Ronald Reagan was born into a different world. It was an age when imperial European powers held sway over much of the globe, and the United States had just begun to make its presence felt in international affairs. By...

Foreign Policy  King Abdullah of Jordan celebrated his 49th birthday this past Sunday, and his reign turns 12 years old on Feb. 7. Neither anniversary could fall at a more unpropitious time. As popular protests roil the Middle East,...

Over the past half decade, the decline in the dollar’s value against all major foreign currencies and the concurrent rise in oil prices have put the American economy on a precarious footing. Despite the danger, changes in financial and...