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Arab Spring Faces Stormy Weather | Aviation Week

January 12, 2012

Andrew Lebovich, policy analyst for the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation, says that the several political and ethnic groups that refuse to lay down their arms are probably the biggest threat to internal security in a ...

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Less Counter-Insurgency, More Asia in New U.S. Strategy | Madison Times

January 12, 2012

"The Pentagon's proposed reductions in its spending plans are far too low," according to William Hartung, a veteran defense analyst at the Washington-based Center for International Policy. "If the administration were to follow up on its own rhetoric on ...

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Learning From Clinton's Mideast Mistakes | Commentary

January 12, 2012

It pitted, for the motion, Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouthi and the New America Foundation and J Street's Daniel Levy against Israeli diplomat Dore Gold and Miller. The whole debate is worth watching, which can be done at Intelligence ...

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It's Time For the UN To Admit Palestine | Slate Magazine

January 11, 2012

Defending the motion were Daniel Levy, an Israeli citizen who had drafted key language for the 2003 Geneva Accord, and Mustafa Barghouthi, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, a third-party movement in Ramallah devoted to nonviolent activism.

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Corruption Is Why They Win | Times of India

January 7, 2012

In his book Pakistan: A Hard Country, Anatol Lieven described how Pakistan is still governed by the "traditions of overriding loyalty to family, clan and religion" . According to Lieven, Pakistan's political parties are "congeries of landlords, ...

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The Realist Prism: Us-China Relationship Could Hang On Biden, Xi | World Politics Review

January 6, 2012

According to an unnamed administration official cited by the Atlantic's Steve Clemons this week, Vice President Joe Biden has been tasked by the White House with overseeing US-China relations. ...

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To Live and Die in Karachi | TIME Magazine

January 6, 2012

Unsurprisingly, British author, academic and terrorism analyst Anatol Lieven calls Pakistan "perhaps the biggest and wobbliest domino on the world stage." And the most dramatic symbol of that instability is Karachi. A recent surge in violence has ...

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Less Counter-Insurgency, More Asia In New U.S. Strategy | Inter Press Service

January 5, 2012

"The Pentagon's proposed reductions in its spending plans are far too low," according to William Hartung, a veteran defence analyst at the Washington-based Center for International Policy. "If the administration were to follow up on its own rhetoric on ...

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Should The Un Admit Palestine As A Full Member State? | Slate Magazine

January 3, 2012

Join us at NYU’s Skirball Center in New York City for an Oxford-style live debate. Former Palestinian Authority presidential candidate and political activist Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi will team up with former Israeli government negotiator and J Street co-founder Daniel Levy to defend the motion that a Palestinian state should be admitted to the United Nations.

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The Voter's Choice | Dawn

January 1, 2012

Most recently, British journalist-turned-academic Anatol Lieven, in his book Pakistan: A Hard Country exposes this fundamental anomaly in the makeup of Pakistani democracy: the voter, especially in peri-urban and rural areas is so firmly entrenched in ...

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