Posted in Geopolitics, Soner Cagaptay, Turkey on Oct 26th, 2009 Comments Off
From Soner Cagaptay
Turkey’s ties with its neighbors have been transformed since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power almost seven years ago in November 2002. Some analysts have described the AKP’s foreign policy as a “zero problems with neighbors” approach. Under the AKP, Ankara has indeed eliminated problems and built good ties with [...]
Posted in Announcements, Books, Robert Satloff on Oct 25th, 2009 Comments Off
From Robert Satloff
On Saturday, October 17, at The Washington Institute’s annual Weinberg Founders Conference at Lansdowne, I was privileged to serve as master of ceremonies for the announcement of our second annual Book Prize for outstanding books on the Middle East published in the previous year. This is a major literary award, one of the [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Matthew Levitt, Philip Carl Salzman, Taliban on Oct 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Matthew Levitt
The Washington Post reports that some in the administration see the Lebanese Hezbollah as a possible model for transformation of the Taliban. Describing the Taliban as a movement “deeply rooted” in Afghanistan, much like Hezbollah is in Lebanon, proponents of a Hezbollah model for the Taliban see a scenario in which the Taliban [...]
Posted in Iran, Mark N. Katz, Nuclear, Robert O. Freedman, Russia, Sanctions on Oct 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Mark N. Katz
After months of seemingly fruitless effort, the Obama administration suddenly appears to have made progress both on improving Russian-American relations and on resolving the Iranian nuclear issue. After the Obama administration announced that it would not implement the Bush administration’s plan to deploy ballistic missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic [...]
From MESH Admin
The New York Times has produced this interactive graphic about the no-longer-secret uranium enrichment facility at Qom in Iran. Click here if you cannot see it below.
Posted in Iran, Nuclear, Raymond Tanter on Sep 30th, 2009 Comments Off
From Raymond Tanter
As the Obama administration prepares for October 1 negotiations with Iran, Tehran steals a page from Pyongyang’s playbook: escalate confrontation in advance of engagement. Why not? Escalation to win concessions and backtracking on promises have worked for North Korea.
On September 27, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps conducted war games that included test launches [...]
Posted in Islamism, Soner Cagaptay, Turkey on Sep 29th, 2009 Comments Off
From Soner Cagaptay
Turkey’s experiment with Islamists-turned-democrats might be coming to a tragic end. When the Justice and Development Party (AKP), rooted in Turkey’s Islamist opposition, came to power in Turkey in 2002 and declared that it had become a democratic movement, nearly everyone gave it the benefit of doubt. At that time, the party pushed [...]
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