Archive for 'Alastair Crooke'
Iran and the end of Deference
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on Middle East Channel, foreignpolicy.com, June 2010
The additional sanctions which the Security Council imposed on Iran earlier this month, and the additional sanctions which the United States Congress passed last Thursday, make no sense in terms of policy coherence. No one really believes sanctions will force a change in Iranian […]
Posted: June 29th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Iran.
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The Shifting Sands of State Power in the Middle East
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Washington Quarterly, June 2010
In his commendably candid interview with Time in January 2010, President Barack Obama noted that managing politics in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict “is just really hard.” The president, however, might well have been speaking about the Middle East as a whole. It is not just the […]
Posted: June 29th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Obama administration.
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After the Israeli flotilla incident, Turkey is the new Palestinian champion
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times
June 3, 2010
Beirut, Lebanon
“This is language that we have not heard since the time of Gamal Abdul Nasser.” Thus wrote the influential chief editor of Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fiery response to the Israeli […]
Posted: June 11th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians.
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President Obama: Getting to ‘Yes’
Alastair Crooke
Whilst America has been absorbed by the Afghan election imbroglio, a less-noticed event slid into place in the Middle East. It is less dramatic than President Karzai’s near removal; but this event tilts the strategic balance: Turkey finally shrugged off its US straight-jacket; stared-past any beckoning EU membership, and has fixed its eyes toward […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2009 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Iran, Obama administration.
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Why Can’t Muslim Societies Be More Like a Globalised West?
Commentary by Alastair Crooke
New Global Studies Vol. 3 : Issue 2, Article 4. Published by The Berkeley Electronic Press
BEIRUT – Many commentators on Islam make the same mistake: They instinctively assume that Muslim resistance to western globalisation reflects the inability of Muslims to accept the social and structural change that ‘modernity’ requires. Muslims, in this […]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Islam and globalization, Islamists, Modernity.
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Nukes aside, the real problem with Iran
By Alastair Crooke
The country is emerging as a regional power. Is the West ready for that?
It was pure drama: The leaders of the United States, Britain, and France stepped onto the stage at the Pittsburgh Group of 20 meeting last week to unveil Western intelligence that showed that Iran had a second nuclear fuel enrichment […]
Posted: October 18th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Disarmament, Iran, Obama administration.
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