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May 12, 2008
| Author: | Owen Matthews |
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Must Read
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to Newsweek's Owen Matthews about Islam, modernity and Turkey's role in Israel-Syria communications
See more in Religion
April 17, 2008
| Author: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Bitterlemons-International.org
Steven A. Cook states that “not since the Ottoman Empire have the Turks played as prominent and potentially problematic a role in the Middle East.”
See more in Iraq, International Peace and Security
April 7, 2008
| Authors: | Morton I. Abramowitz, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation Henri J. Barkey |
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Must Read
Turkey is at war with itself again, over religion and politics in Turkish life, and the consequences for both itself and its friends could be devastating.
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February 8, 2008
| Author: | Noah Feldman, Adjunct Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
New York Times
Noah Feldman explains that “if Turkey is to continue its integration into European and Western civilization, it needs to show that liberal values and Islam are not only compatible but complementary.”
See more in Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Ethnicity and National Identity, Religion
December 2007
| Authors: | Abdullah Akyuz Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow |
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Article
CQ Global Researcher
Abdullah Akyuz and Steven Cook discuss whether U.S.-Turkish relations are likely to improve.
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Updated: December 19, 2007
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Daily Analysis
Turkish military strikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq underscore the ethnic tensions mounting in the region. The unsettled matter of Kirkuk also feeds insecurity.
See more in Iraq, Peacemaking
November 16, 2007
Podcast
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
See more in Australasia and the Pacific, Lebanon, Peacemaking
November 2007
| Author: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow |
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Article
United States Institute of Peace
Steven Cook argues that Turkey can play an important role in helping the U.S. achieve its interests if the U.S. can accept the differences between the two nations.
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November/December 2007
| Author: | Ömer Taspinar |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The ruckus over the election of a religious conservative as Turkey's president has exposed the illiberal nature of Turkish secularism -- as well as the pragmatism of the country's reformed Islamists. Preserving democracy in Turkey by keeping the military out of politics will be a tall order, but the future of the Muslim world's most promising democratic experiment is at stake.
October 23, 2007
| Author: | Babak Dehghanpisheh |
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Must Read
The Iraqi minister caught between the Turks and the Kurds discusses rising regional tensions—and the unexpected Syrian reaction—in the wake of a cross-border PKK raid.
See more in Middle East, Iraq, Border and Ports, Wars and Warfare
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Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
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In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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