https://icga.blogspot.com/2011/02/hard-truths-in-hard-talk.html
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Hard truths in Hardtalk
posted by Philip Cunningham There's a telling moment in the February 1, 2011 BBC Hardtalk interview when host Stephen Sackur asks US publish...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/live-blogging-emergency-military-morale.html?showComment=1216179840000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Live-Blogging the Emergency: Military Morale
Islamabad -- A major reason for the declaration of emergency is the catastrophic loss of morale among the Pakistani army and police. Musha...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/musharraf-adopts-bush-cheney-doctrine.html?showComment=1194300960000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Musharraf Adopts Bush-Cheney Doctrine of "Lawfare"
Islamabad -- One of the curious aspects of General Musharraf's speech last night (by the way, it is General, not President, as he first annu...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1184420580000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1606768548936
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/robert-fisk-on-postwar-lebanon.html?showComment=1220358360000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Robert Fisk on Postwar Lebanon
From an appearance at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in April, the Beirut correspondent of The Independent in the UK explains the rea...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/pakistan-editorialists-respond-to-obama.html?showComment=1223262480000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan Editorialists Respond to Obama, Tancredo
The USG Open Source Center translates Pakistan Editorials Responding to Barack Obama and Tom Tancredo 'Urdu Press Roundup on 'Hostile' State...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1317030007751
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/pakistan-emergency-plus-edition.html?showComment=1750929060164
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan: The Emergency Plus Edition
The wag will say that the nation has never left the state of emergency, but that is just being silly. We now have a legal State of Emergency...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/administrations-iran-drug-policies.html?showComment=1209623940000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Administration's Iran, drug policies endanger Afghanistan
The Sunday Times of London reports from Washington a story I have not seen in any U.S. media: that "the Pentagon has drawn up plans for ma...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/pakistan-editorialists-respond-to-obama.html?showComment=1223262480003
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan Editorialists Respond to Obama, Tancredo
The USG Open Source Center translates Pakistan Editorials Responding to Barack Obama and Tom Tancredo 'Urdu Press Roundup on 'Hostile' State...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1184558100000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/10/rubin-mccains-racism-trifecta.html?showComment=1241647560000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: McCain's Racism Trifecta
I can't stop stewing over this attack on Rashid Khalidi. Even the Washington Post editorial board called out the Republicans on this one, ...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/abdul-rashid.html?showComment=1221413940004
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Abdul Rashid
Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who led the Lal Masjid confrontation perished in a pitched battle with the Pakistan Army. Here are his last words, as r...
informed commentglobal affairsabdulrashid
https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1605200700648
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/10/afghanistan-and-region-view-from-herat.html?showComment=1193045580000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Afghanistan and the Region: The View from Herat
This week (October 17-20) Afghanistan hosted the 17th meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Hera...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1769684717357
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/memo-to-media-supporting-musharraf-is.html?showComment=1633404557418
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Memo to Media: Supporting Musharraf is NOT Realism
Now that I am out of Pakistan, I can watch international news again. (General Musharraf, author of the doctrine of "enlightened moderation,...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/abdul-rashid.html?showComment=1184160360000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Abdul Rashid
Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who led the Lal Masjid confrontation perished in a pitched battle with the Pakistan Army. Here are his last words, as r...
informed commentglobal affairsabdulrashid
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1184481120000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/08/agency.html?showComment=1219261980000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Agency
Pakistan is in dire straits. It is a nation at a crossroads. Extremism is around the corner. The politicians are corrupt. The nukes could en...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/cunningham-burma-more-or-less-needs.html?showComment=1723373005175
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Cunningham: Burma More or Less Needs Help
BURMA MORE OR LESS NEEDS HELP BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAM SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 At first glance, the unfolding crisis in Burma ("Myanmar") offers Am...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/musharraf-adopts-bush-cheney-doctrine.html?showComment=1194233940000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Musharraf Adopts Bush-Cheney Doctrine of "Lawfare"
Islamabad -- One of the curious aspects of General Musharraf's speech last night (by the way, it is General, not President, as he first annu...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1608583971380
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/no-island-is-island.html
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: No island is an island
We live in an intimately inter-connected world as newspaper headlines, shifting investment flows and fluctuating gas prices readily remind u...
informed commentglobal affairsno island
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/pakistan-emergency-plus-edition.html?showComment=1194123780000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan: The Emergency Plus Edition
The wag will say that the nation has never left the state of emergency, but that is just being silly. We now have a legal State of Emergency...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/05/rubin-marines-stuck-protecting-opium-in.html?showComment=1211216820000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: Marines Stuck Protecting Opium in Helmand
An AP story quoting me about the deployment of U.S. Marines to Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan is making the rounds on the ...
informed commentglobal affairsrubin
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1328254816519
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/rollout-to-war-with-iran-update.html?showComment=1595574920255
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rollout to War with Iran: An Update
Update: Since I posted the original note on this topic Wednesday night, there have been several developments. Several more well-informed p...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2011/12/resurgent-arab-islam-need-not-be.html?showComment=1326696147906
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Resurgent Arab Islam need not be unsettling
By Emile Nakhleh and Augustus R. Norton [Cross-posted with " From the Field " and Boston Globe's " The Angle ", where it was first publishe...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1397881600570
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/administrations-iran-drug-policies.html?showComment=1188835980000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Administration's Iran, drug policies endanger Afghanistan
The Sunday Times of London reports from Washington a story I have not seen in any U.S. media: that "the Pentagon has drawn up plans for ma...
informed commentglobal affairsdrug policiesadministration
https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1607091379641
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/10/rubin-my-friend-neo-nazi.html?showComment=1649357579208
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: My Friend, the "Neo-Nazi"
It is really strange to turn on the television and see actual presidential and vice-presidential candidates charging that someone who had d...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/01/more-on-election-rigging-in-pakistan.html?showComment=1199557140000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: More on Election Rigging in Pakistan
UPDATE : I have posted a scanned copy of the PPP's report on election rigging, Another Stain on the Face of Democracy . According to the ...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/05/rubin-marines-stuck-protecting-opium-in.html?showComment=1334854642929
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: Marines Stuck Protecting Opium in Helmand
An AP story quoting me about the deployment of U.S. Marines to Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan is making the rounds on the ...
informed commentglobal affairsrubin
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/01/palestine-israel-bush-sea-change.html
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Palestine-Israel - a Bush Sea-Change? Charles Smith
I am delighted to revise part of my earlier comments to note that President Bush did address Palestinian-Israeli issues in his Abu Dhabi spe...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/07/kuntar.html?showComment=1216234740000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Kuntar
The quality that distinguishes terrorism from violence in general is not merely that it is political, but that it is opprobrious because it ...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2018/05/first-glimpses-of-israelpalestine.html?showComment=1716714391364
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: First glimpses of Israel/Palestine, including Jerusalem, August...
This is a draft chapter from an unpublished manuscript. It recounts my visit to Israel (and Palestine, I would now say) in August 1967, us...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/02/trix-kosova-stories-press-has-missed.html?showComment=1204741260000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Trix: Kosova: Stories the Press has Missed
Kosova: Stories the Press has Missed Frances Trix Since Kosova declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, there has been me...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1325484653204
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/05/rubin-marines-stuck-protecting-opium-in.html?showComment=1210754520000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: Marines Stuck Protecting Opium in Helmand
An AP story quoting me about the deployment of U.S. Marines to Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan is making the rounds on the ...
informed commentglobal affairsrubin
https://icga.blogspot.com/2009/03/and-happy-nowruz-to-you-too-mr-obama.html?showComment=1237571640000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: And Happy Nowruz to You Too Mr. Obama!
Farideh Farhi I must say that I am stunned by the tone and content of President Obama's message to Iran on the occasion of Iranian New Year...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/israel-free-speech-and-oxford-union.html?showComment=1195883580000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Israel, free speech, and the Oxford Union
Avi Shlaim Mirrored here with the author's permission from Alternet . Israel is often portrayed by its supporters as an island of democracy...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/robert-fisk-on-postwar-lebanon.html?showComment=1220358420001
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Robert Fisk on Postwar Lebanon
From an appearance at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in April, the Beirut correspondent of The Independent in the UK explains the rea...
informed commentglobal affairsrobert fiskpostwarlebanon
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/live-blogging-emergency-military-morale.html?showComment=1216179840002
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Live-Blogging the Emergency: Military Morale
Islamabad -- A major reason for the declaration of emergency is the catastrophic loss of morale among the Pakistani army and police. Musha...
informed commentglobal affairslive bloggingthe emergencymilitary
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/12/iraq-in-obama-adminstration.html?showComment=1229818740000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Iraq in the Obama Adminstration
The U.S. Institute of Peace has published a concise discussion of policy concerns and options for the incoming Obama administration. The d...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2009/12/
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: 12/1/09 - 1/1/10
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1716714765991
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1184447460000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/israel-free-speech-and-oxford-union.html?showComment=1209621900000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Israel, free speech, and the Oxford Union
Avi Shlaim Mirrored here with the author's permission from Alternet . Israel is often portrayed by its supporters as an island of democracy...
informed commentglobal affairsfree speechand theisrael
https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1718914417098
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/bhutto-complex.html
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Bhutto Complex
I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my childre...
informed commentglobal affairsbhuttocomplex
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/kian-tajbakhsh-released-parna-azima.html
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Kian Tajbakhsh Released, Parnaz Azima issued passport?
I am getting e-mail reports from Kabul and Washington that Kian Tajbakhsh has been released on bail from Evin Prison, and that Parnaz Azima ...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/10/kurdish-front-against-iran.html?showComment=1193249100000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Kurdish Front against Iran
Kudos to Richard A. Oppel, Jr. of the New York Times for bringing attention to the conflict between the Kurdish guerrillas and Iran during t...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/05/rubin-marines-stuck-protecting-opium-in.html?showComment=1225420020000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: Marines Stuck Protecting Opium in Helmand
An AP story quoting me about the deployment of U.S. Marines to Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan is making the rounds on the ...
informed commentglobal affairsrubin
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/pakistan-emergency-plus-edition.html?showComment=1209622380000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan: The Emergency Plus Edition
The wag will say that the nation has never left the state of emergency, but that is just being silly. We now have a legal State of Emergency...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/return-from-herat-wherein-one.html
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Return from Herat: Wherein One Pessoptimist Meets Another
A visitor just left my office: Homa Sorouri, an Afghan woman from Herat who is studying international relations as a Fulbright Scholar at t...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1458043805707
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/10/rubin-my-friend-neo-nazi.html?showComment=1670730483667
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: My Friend, the "Neo-Nazi"
It is really strange to turn on the television and see actual presidential and vice-presidential candidates charging that someone who had d...
informed commentglobal affairsmy friendthe neorubin
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/10/rubin-my-friend-neo-nazi.html?showComment=1678958617943
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: My Friend, the "Neo-Nazi"
It is really strange to turn on the television and see actual presidential and vice-presidential candidates charging that someone who had d...
informed commentglobal affairsmy friendthe neorubin
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/pakistan-editorialists-respond-to-obama.html?showComment=1223262480002
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan Editorialists Respond to Obama, Tancredo
The USG Open Source Center translates Pakistan Editorials Responding to Barack Obama and Tom Tancredo 'Urdu Press Roundup on 'Hostile' State...
informed commentglobal affairspakistanrespondobama
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/pakistan-editorialists-respond-to-obama.html?showComment=1223262480004
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan Editorialists Respond to Obama, Tancredo
The USG Open Source Center translates Pakistan Editorials Responding to Barack Obama and Tom Tancredo 'Urdu Press Roundup on 'Hostile' State...
informed commentglobal affairspakistanrespondobama
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/administrations-iran-drug-policies.html?showComment=1188823500000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Administration's Iran, drug policies endanger Afghanistan
The Sunday Times of London reports from Washington a story I have not seen in any U.S. media: that "the Pentagon has drawn up plans for ma...
informed commentglobal affairsdrug policiesadministration
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/pessoptimist-in-istanbul-will-bin-laden.html?showComment=1317029974977
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: The Pessoptimist in Istanbul: Will Bin Laden Win?
Today I am in Istanbul in a hotel overlooking the Sea of Marmora. I am here for -- of all things -- a conference on the Durand Line. Of cou...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/06/eissenstat-slouching-toward-disaster-in.html
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Eissenstat: Slouching toward Disaster in Turkey
Howard Eissenstat writes from Istanbul : Slouching Towards Disaster in Turkey Walking the streets of Istanbul these days, you would not know...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/no-island-is-island.html?showComment=1216179180002
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: No island is an island
We live in an intimately inter-connected world as newspaper headlines, shifting investment flows and fluctuating gas prices readily remind u...
informed commentglobal affairsno island
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/pakistan-emergency-plus-edition.html?showComment=1600783499504
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan: The Emergency Plus Edition
The wag will say that the nation has never left the state of emergency, but that is just being silly. We now have a legal State of Emergency...
informed commentglobal affairsthe emergencypakistanplus
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/02/rubin-fantastic-obsessions-of-tim.html?showComment=1320261476269
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: The Fantastic Obsessions of Tim Russert
Posts knocking Tim Russert for his performance as a moderator in the Clinton-Obama debate last night are all over the blogs today. I was pe...
informed commentglobal affairsrubin
https://icga.blogspot.com/2011/12/resurgent-arab-islam-need-not-be.html?showComment=1332933127740
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Resurgent Arab Islam need not be unsettling
By Emile Nakhleh and Augustus R. Norton [Cross-posted with " From the Field " and Boston Globe's " The Angle ", where it was first publishe...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2018/05/first-glimpses-of-israelpalestine.html?showComment=1758444601783
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: First glimpses of Israel/Palestine, including Jerusalem, August...
This is a draft chapter from an unpublished manuscript. It recounts my visit to Israel (and Palestine, I would now say) in August 1967, us...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/12/iraq-in-obama-adminstration.html?showComment=1688099017154
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Iraq in the Obama Adminstration
The U.S. Institute of Peace has published a concise discussion of policy concerns and options for the incoming Obama administration. The d...
informed commentglobal affairsiraqobamaadminstration
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/12/crime-foretold-charsadda-bombing.html?showComment=1216177260000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: A Crime Foretold: The Charsadda Bombing
Yesterday's suicide attack that killed 56 people in Charsadda, a village northeast of Peshawar, Pakistan, was not aimed just at Aftab Ahmad...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/israel-free-speech-and-oxford-union.html?showComment=1216178880002
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Israel, free speech, and the Oxford Union
Avi Shlaim Mirrored here with the author's permission from Alternet . Israel is often portrayed by its supporters as an island of democracy...
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https://lists.uvic.ca/pipermail/ilds/Week-of-Mon-20121210/006601.html
[ilds] Bye, Bye Alexandria - Post on Juan Cole's Informed Comment Website
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2018/05/first-glimpses-of-israelpalestine.html?showComment=1648783825073
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: First glimpses of Israel/Palestine, including Jerusalem, August...
This is a draft chapter from an unpublished manuscript. It recounts my visit to Israel (and Palestine, I would now say) in August 1967, us...
informed commentglobal affairs
https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: 3/1/14 - 4/1/14
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1576902692975
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1688355337594
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1608469261540
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
informed commentglobal affairsvisionsgulfsecurity
https://icga.blogspot.com/2009/03/bhasin-pakistan-matryoshka-doll-of.html?showComment=1236105420000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Bhasin: Pakistan- the Matryoshka Doll of terrorism
Madhavi Bhasi writes Matryoshka Doll commonly referred to as Russian nested doll is a set of dolls of decreasing size placed one inside ...
informed commentglobal affairsmatryoshka doll
https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/pakistan-editorialists-respond-to-obama.html?showComment=1223262480001
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan Editorialists Respond to Obama, Tancredo
The USG Open Source Center translates Pakistan Editorials Responding to Barack Obama and Tom Tancredo 'Urdu Press Roundup on 'Hostile' State...
informed commentglobal affairspakistanrespondobama
https://icga.blogspot.com/2018/05/first-glimpses-of-israelpalestine.html?showComment=1757588287143
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: First glimpses of Israel/Palestine, including Jerusalem, August...
This is a draft chapter from an unpublished manuscript. It recounts my visit to Israel (and Palestine, I would now say) in August 1967, us...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/poor-helmand-security-situation.html?showComment=1186545000000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Poor Helmand Security Situation Explained: Interview
The USG Open Source Center translates an interview with a female member of parliament for Afghanistan's troubled Helmand Province , Nasima N...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/10/rubin-mccains-racism-trifecta.html?showComment=1259343821750
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: McCain's Racism Trifecta
I can't stop stewing over this attack on Rashid Khalidi. Even the Washington Post editorial board called out the Republicans on this one, ...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/pakistan-emergency-plus-edition.html?showComment=1216179960000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan: The Emergency Plus Edition
The wag will say that the nation has never left the state of emergency, but that is just being silly. We now have a legal State of Emergency...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/musharraf-adopts-bush-cheney-doctrine.html?showComment=1216179540002
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Musharraf Adopts Bush-Cheney Doctrine of "Lawfare"
Islamabad -- One of the curious aspects of General Musharraf's speech last night (by the way, it is General, not President, as he first annu...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2018/05/first-glimpses-of-israelpalestine.html?showComment=1775386862590
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: First glimpses of Israel/Palestine, including Jerusalem, August...
This is a draft chapter from an unpublished manuscript. It recounts my visit to Israel (and Palestine, I would now say) in August 1967, us...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/live-blogging-emergency-military-morale.html?showComment=1216179900000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Live-Blogging the Emergency: Military Morale
Islamabad -- A major reason for the declaration of emergency is the catastrophic loss of morale among the Pakistani army and police. Musha...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/pakistan-emergency-plus-edition.html?showComment=1194115560000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan: The Emergency Plus Edition
The wag will say that the nation has never left the state of emergency, but that is just being silly. We now have a legal State of Emergency...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/10/afghanistan-and-region-view-from-herat.html?showComment=1311766413497
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Afghanistan and the Region: The View from Herat
This week (October 17-20) Afghanistan hosted the 17th meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Hera...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2014/03/visions-of-gulf-security.html?showComment=1718914381051
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Visions of Gulf Security
Courting Fitnah: Saudi responses to the Arab Uprisings MARCH 20, 2014 By Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University * This memo w...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/11/pakistan-emergency-plus-edition.html?showComment=1760161414462
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistan: The Emergency Plus Edition
The wag will say that the nation has never left the state of emergency, but that is just being silly. We now have a legal State of Emergency...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/04/rubin-nwfp-peace-plan-tabled.html?showComment=1219108680000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: NWFP Peace Plan Tabled
Khalid Aziz, head of the Awami National Party Task Force in Peshawar has published a preview of the peace plan to be set before the Northwe...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2009/03/bhasin-pakistan-matryoshka-doll-of.html?showComment=1236061620000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Bhasin: Pakistan- the Matryoshka Doll of terrorism
Madhavi Bhasi writes Matryoshka Doll commonly referred to as Russian nested doll is a set of dolls of decreasing size placed one inside ...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/10/rubin-mccains-racism-trifecta.html?showComment=1266775609320
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rubin: McCain's Racism Trifecta
I can't stop stewing over this attack on Rashid Khalidi. Even the Washington Post editorial board called out the Republicans on this one, ...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/12/student-day-in-iran.html
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Student Day in Iran
Today is Student Day in Iran and I am posting below a smart piece I just received from Rasmus Chritian Elling about the student movement and...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/12/iraq-in-obama-adminstration.html?showComment=1229974380000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Iraq in the Obama Adminstration
The U.S. Institute of Peace has published a concise discussion of policy concerns and options for the incoming Obama administration. The d...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/rollout-to-war-with-iran-update.html?showComment=1188771060000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Rollout to War with Iran: An Update
Update: Since I posted the original note on this topic Wednesday night, there have been several developments. Several more well-informed p...
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https://icga.blogspot.com/2008/12/pakistanis-hold-vigil-for-mumbai.html?showComment=1228982220000
Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Pakistanis Hold Vigil for Mumbai Victims
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: progpak@gmail.com / 917.922.9836 Pakistanis Hold Vigil for Mumbai Victims Call Upon India and Pakistan to Wor...
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