Tag Archives: Middle East

Peace Now, or Never

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Michaela

By Ehud Olmert As the United Nations General Assembly opens this year, I feel uneasy. An unnecessary diplomatic clash between Israel and the Palestinians is taking shape in New York, and it will be harmful to Israel and to the … Continue reading →

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Perfect Storm

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Michaela

By Mark Levine Perhaps the title isn’t fair. The storm that awaits Barack Obama at the UN is not entirely of his own creation. He did not create half a century of US foreign policy based on support for authoritarianism … Continue reading →

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Unglued

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Michaela

By STEVEN LEE MYERS By Stephen Lee Myers While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges — and worst-case scenarios — that would have once … Continue reading →

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All together now

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Michaela

By Thomas L. Friedman Hold onto your hats and your wallets. Since the end of the cold war, the global system has been held together to a large degree by four critical ruling bargains. Today all four are coming unstuck … Continue reading →

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The silence of the United States

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Michaela

Freedom vs interest – Fault Lines’ Seb Walker travels to the Perisan Gulf to look at US policy in the region, and to explore why the US has taken an interventionist policy in Libya, but not in Bahrain, where there has … Continue reading →

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A world of regions

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Michaela

By Jeffery D Sachs America’s failure to win any lasting geopolitical advantage through the use of military force in Iraq and Afghanistan underscore the limits of its power, In almost every part of the world, long-festering problems can be solved … Continue reading →

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They want to be

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Michaela

By Thomas L Friedman There is a story making the rounds among Lebanese Facebook users about a Syrian democracy activist who was stopped at a Syrian Army checkpoint the other day. He reportedly had a laptop and a thumb drive … Continue reading →

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Science and democracy

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Michaela

From revolution to Enlightenment By Dan Hind Scientific enquiry and politics have always been bound together. The birth of a recognisably modern scientific establishment in Britain coincided with the end of absolute monarchy. An oligarchy of landed and learned gentlemen … Continue reading →

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Know what is in front of you

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Michaela

Osama bin Laden took on a role the world needed. Archetypes are energies in all of us. I find it very useful to work with archetypes in terms of articulating what is going on in – and outside of ourselves. … Continue reading →

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How risky is the global economy ?

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Michaela

By Mohamed A. El-Erian Three years after the global financial crisis, the global economy remains a confusing place – and for good reasons. Should we draw comfort from gradual healing in advanced countries and solid growth in emerging economies? Or should … Continue reading →

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