"In the three and a half years since September the 11th, 2001, we've taken unprecedented actions to protect Americans. Our nation, working with allies and friends, has also confronted the enemy abroad with measures that are determined, successful and continuing.|Full Story
Civil-military relations are a critical, but often overlooked area, in the discussion of political reform in the Arab and Islamic worlds. In a variety of key countries stretching across North Africa, the Levant, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, militaries have played important roles in modernization and institutionalization. |Full Story
After months of routine posturing, run-of-the-mill demonstrations and traditional political bargaining, the debate over disengagement has suddenly taken a very dangerous turn. With Masada-style defiance, the anti-disengagement forces have crossed national red lines in an overt and startling manner that could potentially undermine Israeli democracy. |Full Story
The shifts in the Transatlantic alliance in 2005 will be memorable only if unpredicted events make things go terribly wrong. It is far more likely, however, that 2005 will be the year of "more of the same." Strategic priorities will continue to change and the transatlantic response will be additional bickering and drift.|Full Story
The Israeli Cabinet recently confirmed that it adopted a resolution passed enforcing the application of Israel's Absentee Property Law to properties held in occupied East Jerusalem. The Absentee Property Law was enacted in 1950 in an attempt to legalize Israel's control over Palestinian land in what became Israel.|Full Story
While attention is focused on the insurgency against the interim Iraqi government and the occupation troops, another conflict is brewing in northern Iraq that could precipitate civil war, the break-up of the country and, in a worst-case scenario, Turkish intervention. |Full Story
