Posted in Charles Hill, Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy, Terminology on Jun 3rd, 2009 Comments Off on Obama’s grand strategy
From Charles Hill If you put yourself in the position of, say, the political counsellor of the British Embassy in Washington and you were required to send in a pre-Obama-in-Cairo speech analysis, you could draw upon a close analysis of Obama’s words and those of his Middle East team over the past ten days to […]
Posted in Afghanistan, Arab Gulf, Geopolitics, Iran, Martin Kramer, Pakistan, Terminology on Mar 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Martin Kramer The appointment of Dennis Ross as “Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for The Gulf and Southwest Asia” (announcement here) has caused some puzzlement, in part because the geographic focus of his title seems fuzzy. This is especially so for “Southwest Asia.”
Posted in Martin Kramer, Terminology on Sep 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
From MESH Admin This wire service article from the New York Times of April 27, 1952 is evidence of how the National Geographic Society once unsuccessfully tried to define the Near, Middle, and Far Easts “in terms of logical geographical divisions.” It is amusing now to read the rationale for the Society’s insistence on centering […]
Posted in Geopolitics, Martin Kramer, Michael Young, Terminology, Walter Reich on Jun 12th, 2008 8 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 Bernard Haykel, Islamism, Mark T. Clark, Michael Horowitz, Military, Qaeda, Terminology on May 29th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim At the recent inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), presenter LTC Joseph Myers made an interesting point that deserves further elaboration: that, though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine—such as Clausewitz’s On War, Sun Tzu’s The […]
Posted in Hillel Fradkin, Islamism, Martin Kramer, Media, Michael Young, Terminology on Mar 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Hillel Fradkin According to Philip Bennett, managing editor of the Washington Post, Americans lack a proper understanding of Islam. Contemporary media practice is to blame, and it is the job of the same media to fix it. His immediate proposals: hiring more Muslim journalists, better translations of Arabic words or terms and greater descriptive […]
Posted in Culture, Iran, Israel, Stephen Peter Rosen, Terminology on Feb 20th, 2008 5 Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen I am worried. Last year I did some historical research on the shifts in discourse within British, Japanese, and South African official elites prior to their use of biological weapons. In all these cases, including the deliberate distribution of small pox-infected blankets by the British in North America, the use of […]
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