July 11, 2011 Archives

Week of July 11, 2011 Archives

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Monday, July 11

A U.S. Guerrilla War in Afghanistan?

Brian Downing, Asia Times

Our Dangerous Pakistan Confrontation

John Schmidt, National Interest

Palestinian State Is Threat to Jordan

Alexander Bligh, Jerusalem Post

Ghosts of Hama Return to Haunt Assads

Macleod & Flamand, Al Jazeera

So Who Is Running Yemen Now?

Jeb Boone, Foreign Policy

'True Europeans' Should Improve Union

George Soros, Financial Times

Don't Let Scandal Give UK Lapdog Press

Toby Harnden, Daily Telegraph

Carbon Tax Mission Impossible

Dennis Shanahan, The Australian

Dalai Lama Outmaneuvers China on Succession

Gordon Chang, Forbes

Keep Redrawing the Map of Africa

G. Pascal Zachary, The Atlantic

The Compass: Arabic - Language of Facebook? | Libya & Kosovo

Tuesday, July 12

Who Killed Ahmed Wali Karzai?

Matthieu Aikins, Foreign Policy

France May Be Going Wobbly on Gaddafi

Bruce Crumley, Time

Is the Italian Domino Falling?

Megan McArdle, The Atlantic

Panetta Punts on Iran Threat

Benny Avni, New York Post

Pakistan Aid Not as Important as Pipeline

Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

Pakistan's Middle-Class Extremists

Blair, Fair, Malhotra & Shapiro, CNN

India Asks: Is Afghanistan Ready?

Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate

The Ignored Oppression in Bahrain

Mehdi Hasan, The Guardian

Thailand's So-Called Democracy

Doug Bandow, The National Interest

China's Confucian Past and Future

Francis Fukuyama, Financial Times

Wednesday, July 13

Debt Crisis Will Change the Way We Live

Hamish McRae, Independent

A Thug Worse Than the Taliban

Stephen Grey, The Guardian

Next Big Threat to U.S.-China Relations

Ting Xu, The Diplomat

The Path to Democracy in Egypt

Daniel Brumberg, The Atlantic

Bringing Down Murdoch's Dog

Christopher Hitchens, National Post

Turkey Key to U.S.-Iraq Ties

Sean Kane, Christian Science Monitor

Obama, the Mideast and Anti-Colonialism

Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine

Egypt's Problematic Populism

Jon Alterman, CSIS

U.S. Funding Cut Will Help Pakistan, Hurt U.S.

Omar Waraich, Time

Belgium's Dysfunction a Looming Threat

Christoph Schult, Der Spiegel

The Compass: Arab Views on Obama Plummet | France in Disarray

Thursday, July 14

World Should Fear an Inward-Looking China

Fareed Zakaria, Time

Don't Write Off the U.S. Yet

Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Int'l Herald Tribune

Obama's Failed Middle East Policy

Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard

Syria Tests Turkey's Role as Regional Power

Vali Nasr, Bloomberg

Sarkozy Starts Acting Presidential

Mort Rosenblum, Global Post

CIA Shatters Trust in Medicine

Alanna Shaikh, Foreign Policy

The July Silly Season in Northern Ireland

Fionola Meredith, The Guardian

America's Commitment to South Sudan

Susan Rice, The Daily Beast

How the Arab World Lost Southern Sudan

Lamis Andoni, Al Jazeera

Austria's Freedom Party Makes Its Move

Walter Mayr, Der Spiegel

Friday, July 15

How the U.S. Failed in Af-Pak

Stephen Cohen, The National Interest

John Kerry, Obama's Man in Kabul

James Traub, New York Times

The U.S. Needs Pakistan

H.D.S. Greenway, International Herald Tribune

The Arab Spring As Seen From Tehran

Parsi & Marashi, Cairo Review

As U.S. Declines, Harper Wants Canada to Step Up

Paul Well, Maclean's

Libya After Gaddafi

Omar Ashour, Today's Zaman

Taliban Explain Ahmad Karzai Killing

M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times

Power Vacuum in Afghanistan

Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review

Somalia's Drought a U.S. Problem

Gartenstein-Ross & Vassefi, Atlantic

Murdoch's Scalp Won't Help Anyone

Adrian Hamilton, The Independent