Posted in Iran, Mark N. Katz, Nuclear, Russia, Sanctions on Dec 14th, 2009 Comments Off
From MESH Admin A journalist has described President Obama’s approach to foreign policy as “applying the same tools to international diplomacy that he once used as a community organizer on Chicago’s South Side.” In a new number of Middle East Papers, Mark N. Katz explains why these tools are likely to be ineffective in influencing [...]
Posted in Caucasus, Central Asia, Islam in West, Mark N. Katz, Russia, Walter Laqueur on Nov 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
From MESH Admin Walter Laqueur contributes a new paper to MESH’s Middle East Papers series, on Russia’s Muslim strategy. That strategy, barely coherent, is riddled with contradictions, as Russia vacillates between resentment of the American-led world order and fear of an ascendant Islam. For now, it’s the resentment against the West that dominates the Russian [...]
Posted in Iran, Mark N. Katz, Nuclear, Robert O. Freedman, Russia, Sanctions on Oct 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Mark N. Katz After months of seemingly fruitless effort, the Obama administration suddenly appears to have made progress both on improving Russian-American relations and on resolving the Iranian nuclear issue. After the Obama administration announced that it would not implement the Bush administration’s plan to deploy ballistic missile defenses in Poland and the Czech [...]
Posted in Iran, Mark N. Katz, Military, Russia on Sep 23rd, 2009 Comments Off
From Mark N. Katz Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s most recent statement that the Holocaust is a myth and denouncing Israel is an indication that he does not see U.S. President Obama’s call for dialogue and improved relations with Iran as desirable from his perspective.
Posted in Afghanistan, Caucasus, Central Asia, Michael Reynolds, Russia, Taliban, Walter Laqueur on Aug 31st, 2009 1 Comment »
From Michael Reynolds The other week over at ForeignPolicy.com, in a post titled “The ‘safe haven’ myth,” Stephen M. Walt offered six reasons to be skeptical of the argument that a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan would pose a significant threat to the United States. On the same website, Peter Bergen rebutted Walt. Running through Walt’s six reasons [...]
Posted in Diplomacy, Mark N. Katz, Michael Reynolds, Russia on Jul 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Mark N. Katz At the recent Moscow summit, the U.S. and Russian governments made progress on strategic arms control and on Afghanistan. Instead of heralding broader Russian-American cooperation, however, the results of the Moscow summit—and subsequent G-8 summit in Italy—suggest that Russian-American cooperation is likely to remain limited, especially regarding the Middle East. Presidents [...]
Posted in Iran, Robert O. Freedman, Russia on Jul 9th, 2009 Comments Off
From Robert O. Freedman On the two major Middle East issues that divide Russia and the United States and that could have been talked about at the U.S.-Russian summit—Moscow’s legitimization of Hamas by regularly inviting its delegations to Moscow, and Russia’s protection of Iran from serious UN Security Council sanctions—not much appears to have been [...]
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