Wanted: An Arab Jean Monnet
The Middle East is beyond doubt one of the most dangerous crisis…
Realism about Russia
BERLIN: Russia's strategy to revise the post-Soviet order in what it calls…
Serious negotiations or hot confrontation with Iran?
For two weeks, it looked like the regime in Iran had finally…
Europe's calamity
It has happened. After France and the Netherlands rejected the European Constitutional…
High noon in the Middle East
A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel thus has been transformed…
The emerging "New Middle East"
President George W. Bush's Middle East policy undeniably managed to achieve one…
The New Nuclear Risk
Humans love to suppress abstract dangers. They react only after they get…
Modernization à la Carte?
Two centuries ago the American and French Revolutions brought forth the natural…
America and Europe
Deeply frustrated by the Bush administration's policies, many people and governments in…
Afghanistan and the Future of Nato
Things aren't going well in Afghanistan. Sometime at the turn of 2001/2002,…