Posted in Geopolitics on Jul 17th, 2008 No Comments »
For the Fourth of July, MESH prompted a discussion on whether the American era in the Middle East had ended, taking as its point of departure this quote from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations:
The American era in the Middle East… has ended…. It is one of history’s ironies that the first […]
Posted in Palestinians, Israel, Maps, Geopolitics on Jul 10th, 2008 No Comments »
From MESH Admin
This map, by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, provides an update on the status of Israel’s West Bank barrier, showing segments completed, under construction, and planned, as of July 2008. The barrier’s total length is now projected to be 723 kilometers, more than twice the length of the 1949 […]
Posted in Pakistan, Maps, Geopolitics, Afghanistan on Jul 7th, 2008 No Comments »
From MESH Admin
The online journal Heartland: Eurasian Review of Geopolitics devotes its latest issue to “The Pakistani Boomerang,” and provides this map of the situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, as prepared by Limes, an Italian review of geopolitics. The map shows the tribal areas, sites of clashes between Pakistani forces and jihadists, and cross-border infiltration […]
Posted in Harvey Sicherman, Robert Satloff, Michael Mandelbaum, Robert J. Lieber, Josef Joffe, J. Scott Carpenter, Martin Kramer, Walter Laqueur, Joshua Muravchik, Geopolitics on Jul 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
MESH marks the Fourth of July by asking this question: Is the American era in the Middle East over? The argument was first made by Richard Haass in an article published in 2006:
The American era in the Middle East… has ended…. It is one of history’s ironies that the first war in Iraq, a […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Geopolitics, Iran, Iraq, Books on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Marc J. O’Reilly is assistant professor of political science at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. His new book is Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007.
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 […]
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