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The Strategic Logic of the Iraq Blunder |
To hear American politicians and the commercial news media tell it, the greatest military power in world history hastily launched an ill-conceived invasion because of intelligence failures and wishful fantasies of sweets and flowers. It is as if... |
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Yemen and the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army |
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Arming Yemen Against Al-Qaeda |
Americans got a crash course on Yemen for Christmas.
That’s because we’ve wanted to know more about the little-known, dirt-poor country in southwestern Arabia where the “underwear bomber” who tried to blow up a... |
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The Death and Life of Jarallah Omar |
News of the shooting deaths of three American health professionals working for a Southern Baptist mission hospital in Yemen follows closely on the heels of the very public murder of a highly regarded figure in the Yemeni opposition.
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How Yemen's Ruling Party Secured an Electoral Landslide |
Yemen's parliamentary elections, held on April 27, 2003, might have set a higher standard for contested elections in the Arab world. Instead, post-election shenanigans and gunfire that disrupted ballot counting in key districts cast doubt... |
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Euro-Med |
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MER220 |
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Killing Live 8, Noisily |
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Forecasting Mass Destruction, from Gulf to Gulf |
While internally displaced Americans were piled into an unequipped New Orleans sports stadium, the question on everyone’s lips was: where were the Louisiana National Guard and its high-water trucks when Hurricane Katrina struck? One... |
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NGOs, INGOs, GO-NGOs and DO-NGOs |
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MER214 |
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Mission: Democracy |
Incumbent national leaders invite foreign election monitors only when it is in their interest to do so. Rarely is significant financial assistance “conditional” on holding elections, although it does improve a regime’s image... |
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