Archive for 'Diplomacy'
Latest Monograph:
Understanding Hizbullah’s Support for the Asad Regime
A Monograph written by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, an independent Lebanese academic and political analyst.
Although Hizbullah does indeed depend on the Asad regime for its arms’ flow, this consideration alone does not adequately grasp the other motives behind its controversial stance, nor does it sufficiently explain the sturdiness of its alliance with Syria. Reducing Hizbullah’s close alliance […]
Posted: November 1st, 2011 under Diplomacy, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, MONOGRAPHS, Palestinians, Syria.
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Latest Policy Paper:
Islamic Visions of the Outcome of the Recent Arab Revolutions
The second Policy Paper written by Sheikh Chafiq Jaradi, General Director of the Institute of Sapiential Knowledge in Beirut, exclusively for Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download ‘Islamic Visions of the Outcome of the Recent Arab Revolutions’.
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Posted: April 11th, 2011 under Democracy, Diplomacy, Egypt, Islam and globalization, Islamists, Middle East, POLICY PAPERS.
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Permanent Temporariness
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on London Review of Books
It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which I was sitting flew open. In stalked a figure still dressed in a dark overcoat and scarf. He evidently could contain himself no longer. I was in Downing Street with […]
Posted: March 8th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Diplomacy, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians, War on terrorism.
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Why the demise of the Middle East ‘peace process’ may be a good thing
Alastair Crooke
Article posted on The Christian Science Monitor
Recognizing that a two-state solution is no longer in the cards opens the way for other paths that don’t depend on Western mediation. It puts to rest the fiction that a Palestinian state will emerge from even the best intentions of the West instead of from the political […]
Posted: January 13th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Diplomacy, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mediation, Middle East, Palestinians.
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Giving ‘engagement’ a bad name: Obama’s Iran policy at one year
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
The first anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration as President of the United States came this week. The sharpest criticism of Obama’s first-year record on domestic and economic affairs came from the Nobel prize-winning economist, New York Times columnist, and Princeton professor Paul Krugman.
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Posted: January 26th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Diplomacy, Iran, Obama administration.
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The political implications of the Hamas electoral victory from Islamist, regional and Western perspectives
A Conflicts Forum conference sponsored by the European Commission, Beirut, March 2007
Conference Report, Part Two
In March of 2007, Conflicts Forum conducted a workshop on the political implications of the Hamas electoral victory from Islamist, regional and Western perspectives. The conference, held in Beirut, Lebanon, presented speakers from the region, including Islamist scholars and leaders, those […]
Posted: June 18th, 2007 under Bush Administration, CF CONFERENCE, Diplomacy, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, Middle East, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia.
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