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How to make headway with Tehran
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
The revelation by the Iranian regime that Iran is pursuing the construction of a second uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qom has dealt a blow to the already faltering efforts of Obama to open a dialogue with Tehran . The United States today still cling more firmly to the vain hope that [...]
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Promoting democracy, is now out of fashion in Washington?
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
According to several observers, the new U.S. administration has effectively abandoned the policy of promoting democracy in the Middle East. The academic Anouar Boukhars argues however that it is more like a rethinking of strategies to achieve this
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is giving less support to human rights and political reform [...] -
Obama and Netanyahu: two views compared
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Barack Obama the President and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to overcome their first official meeting with no apparent harm to the Israeli-American relations. But their careful language about the shared perception of the dangers and the deep historical ties between the two countries could not hide the obvious: significant and difficult challenges we face [...]
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Elections and war in Afghanistan, the Western strategy towards bankruptcy?
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Afghanistan is now on the way to the appointment of August 20, when it held presidential elections that will have to confirm the reappointment of Hamid Karzai, ol’inizio of a new era under the leadership of one of the opponents who have challenged in the ongoing election campaign.
And common opinion among analysts that Karzai [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bilateral Relations, Energy Policy, Iran, Negotiations, Nuclear proliferation, Sanctions, United States
Tags: Arab-Islamic World, Barack Obama, Cooperation, Democracy, Development, United States
Tags: Arab-Islamic World, Barack Obama, Bilateral Relations, Iran, Israel, Issue Palestinian, Nuclear proliferation, Palestinian State, United States
Tags: Afghanistan, bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Corruption, Democracy, Elections, Great Britain, Military, NATO, Taliban, United States, war in Afghanistan, Western strategy