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Ayatollah Khamenei and a Principled Foreign Policy
Seyed Mohammad Marandi
University of Tehran
Paper presented at the International Conference: RENOVATION & INTELLECTUAL IJTIHAD IN IMAM KHAMENEI, Beirut, 6 & 7 June 2011.
One of the most important points to keep in mind when discussing the leadership of Ayatollah al-Udhma Imam Khamenei is the very fact that he was chosen to succeed the towering figure of […]
Posted: June 28th, 2011 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, Iran, Iraq, Islam and globalization.
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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.
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Posted: April 11th, 2011 under Democracy, Diplomacy, Egypt, Islam and globalization, Islamists, Middle East, POLICY PAPERS.
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The Arab awakening and Syrian exceptionalism
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on www.foreignpolicy.com
Cleavage in political culture between the domestic and external could not have been better illustrated than in President Bashar Assad’s March 30 televised address to the Syrian people. Its style perturbed, and then called down almost universal disdain, externally — for being both insufficient and ill-judged. In Syria, where I was, […]
Posted: April 11th, 2011 under AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Syria.
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Post-Oslo State-Building Strategies and their Limitations
Professor Mushtaq Khan
The Yusif A Sayigh Development Lecture 2010
December 2010, MAS, Ramallah
Conflicts Forum is very grateful to Professor Mushtaq Khan for his permission to share a lecture he gave in December 2010 in Ramallah. The full transcript of the lecture can be downloaded as a PDF (816kb) by clicking here.
“The most immediate question in Palestine […]
Posted: March 31st, 2011 under Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Palestinians.
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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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What prospect for reconciliation?
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on english.aljazeera.net
Enmity towards Hamas has been so systemized that it would require dismantling everything built by Abbas and the US.
Many may still ask about the prospects for national reconciliation; the publication of The Palestine Papers, however, starkly illuminates how this has become plainly impossible.
The Palestine Papers show that – for the leadership […]
Posted: January 31st, 2011 under AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Democracy, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians.
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