February 16, 2011

How the West Can Aid Mideast Reform

Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian

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The west should look to enable, rather than to do, exercising what foreign policy circles think of as soft or smart power, rather than hard, military might.

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TAGGED: Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt

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