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Richard Bulliet

Rami G. Khouri

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Immanuel Wallerstein

Al-Qaida’s Desert Terror  
Al-Qaida’s announcement this week of the execution of a sick, 78-year-old Frenchman, Michel Germaneau, somewhere in the vast arid wastes of the Sahara, is seen in Paris as a declaration of war.
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Nobility and Criminality in War  
Have the US, UK and their NATO allies learned anything from the Iraq war experience? The situations today in Iran and Afghanistan suggest that policies are still being implemented with the same weaknesses.
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Strategic Clarity in Afghanistan  
The United States and its allies have at last formulated a plan to bring the nine-year old catastrophe in Afghanistan to an honourable end. It may not be a wise plan and it may prove unworkable, but it has the advantage of clarity.
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Re-Thinking ‘Civil Society’ in the Arab World  
One of the fascinating transformations in the Middle East in the past several decades has been the gradual blurring of the once clear divisions between the state, NGOs and the private sector.
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The Burden of America’s Alliance with Israel  
Two key officials in his administration may be obstructing President Barack Obama’s declared objectives of resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict and reaching a negotiated settlement with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
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Feeding the Prisoner, Paying the Jailor  
The United States wants to fund political activism by young Arabs while it simultaneously provides funds and guns that help cement the power of the Arab governments that the young social and political activists target for change.
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To Ban or Not to Ban the Burqa  
Rather than banning the burqa, what’s needed are jobs, housing, infrastructure, and especially education in deprived areas of France, to give young people of immigrant families the chance to be fully integrated into French society.
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Richard Bulliet
2/17/2010Glenn Beck’s ‘End Time’ Lies
9/28/2009The End of Middle East History
9/28/2009The End of Middle East History
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Rami G. Khouri
7/28/2010Nobility and Criminality in War
7/26/2010Re-Thinking ‘Civil Society’ in the Arab World
7/21/2010Feeding the Prisoner, Paying the Jailor
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Peter Kwong
6/1/2009June Fourth -- Twenty Years Later
5/11/2009They’re Beating-Up Foreign Journalists
4/27/2009No Reform or Relief in China
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Patrick Seale
7/30/2010Al-Qaida’s Desert Terror
7/26/2010Strategic Clarity in Afghanistan
7/23/2010The Burden of America’s Alliance with Israel
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Immanuel Wallerstein
7/15/2010Whose Taxes Are Going Up?
7/1/2010Why McChrystal Did It
6/15/2010Impossible Choices in a World Depression
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