Posted in Michael Young, Malik Mufti, Walter Reich, Terminology, Martin Kramer, Geopolitics on Jun 12th, 2008 6 Comments »
From Martin Kramer
Last September, when I arrived in Cambridge for my fall stay at Harvard, I opened the Boston Globe and saw this headline over an editorial: “The Other Middle East Conflict.” I immediately said to myself: well, I know what the Middle East conflict is—that’s the Israelis and the Palestinians. So what is […]
Posted in Lebanon, Syria, Malik Mufti, Steven A. Cook, Hezbollah, Jon Alterman, Geopolitics, Turkey, Israel, Palestinians, Iran on Jun 6th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Jon Alterman
A funny thing has happened in the Middle East: virtually all of the government opposition to the United States has gone away. After almost a half-century of Cold War battles to protect oil fields, deny Soviet access to warm-water ports, and commit hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, the number of Middle […]
Posted in Steven A. Cook, Malik Mufti, Michael Reynolds, Turkey, Military on Mar 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Malik Mufti
Turkey’s democracy has long rested on a delicate equilibrium between the guardians of the unitary secular-nationalist paradigm who dominate the civilian and military state bureaucracies on the one hand, and the populist politicians who appeal to the particularistic sub-identities of Turkey’s diverse civil society on the other. The proper functioning of this dynamic […]
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