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Predicting critical events, an institutional challenge.

“Close your eyes and you’re not sure if it’s an Israeli or a Saudi speaking.” That’s what Daniel Levy, Middle East director at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), told The New York Times in an article dated March 31st. The ECFR, which has called for a greater role for Al Qaeda in Algeria to “promote democracy,” is funded mainly by George Soros. The New York Times ...

22.05.2014

Pugwash… The Contemporary Relevance Of The 1995 Nobel Peace Prize

... of soft power, public diplomacy, the internet and social media. Henry Kissinger was still at Harvard. Robert MacNamara was managing the biggest failure in the history of the Ford Motor Company, the ill-fated Edsel automobile; the highly publicized wunderkind who computerized the Pentagon and the Vietnam War wasn’t made president of Ford until two months before the Kennedy transition team chose him to be U.S. Secretary of Defense. An Outside-The-Box Gamble That Paid Off Overcoming objections ...

29.11.2013

Future of Assad and Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party In Limbo As Syria Sitzkrieg Plays Out

... possibility that Israel holds an arsenal of nuclear weapons that can be used against them. For its part, Israel has signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, but refuses to ratify it or declare production facilities because of concerns they will be gassed ... ... destruction” groupthink that saw defense spending emerge as the driver of the world economic order during the Cold War era. Since a fundamentalist regime in Syria will not change Israel’s position it will further slow down the pace of Putin’s gambit ...

15.09.2013

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