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‘Russia’s Muslim Strategy’

Posted in Caucasus, Central Asia, Islam in West, Mark N. Katz, Russia, Walter Laqueur on Nov 1st, 2009 1 Comment »

From MESH Admin Walter Laqueur contributes a new paper to MESH’s Middle East Papers series, on Russia’s Muslim strategy. That strategy, barely coherent, is riddled with contradictions, as Russia vacillates between resentment of the American-led world order and fear of an ascendant Islam. For now, it’s the resentment against the West that dominates the Russian […]

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False comfort on Afghanistan

Posted in Afghanistan, Caucasus, Central Asia, Michael Reynolds, Russia, Taliban, Walter Laqueur on Aug 31st, 2009 1 Comment »

From Michael Reynolds The other week over at ForeignPolicy.com, in a post titled “The ‘safe haven’ myth,” Stephen M. Walt offered six reasons to be skeptical of the argument that a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan would pose a significant threat to the United States. On the same website, Peter Bergen rebutted Walt. Running through Walt’s six reasons […]

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