Posted in Geopolitics, Mark N. Katz, Russia, Walter Laqueur on Aug 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Walter Laqueur Some have said that the Kremlin is unpredictable. I always found the Soviet (Russian) leadership more predictable than the White House. According to Vladimir Putin, the breakdown of the Soviet Union was the greatest disaster of the 20th century. If so, one ought to undo (or reduce) the damage, and Moscow is […]
Posted in Geopolitics on Jul 17th, 2008 Comments Off on Over for America? Haass replies
For the Fourth of July, MESH prompted a discussion on whether the American era in the Middle East had ended, taking as its point of departure this quote from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations: The American era in the Middle East… has ended…. It is one of history’s ironies that the […]
Posted in Geopolitics, Israel, Maps, Palestinians on Jul 10th, 2008 Comments Off on West Bank barrier projections
From MESH Admin This map, by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, provides an update on the status of Israel’s West Bank barrier, showing segments completed, under construction, and planned, as of July 2008. The barrier’s total length is now projected to be 723 kilometers, more than twice the length of the […]
Posted in Afghanistan, Geopolitics, Maps, Pakistan on Jul 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Border wars: Pakistan and Afghanistan
From MESH Admin The online journal Heartland: Eurasian Review of Geopolitics devotes its latest issue to “The Pakistani Boomerang,” and provides this map of the situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, as prepared by Limes, an Italian review of geopolitics. The map shows the tribal areas, sites of clashes between Pakistani forces and jihadists, and cross-border […]
Posted in Geopolitics, Harvey Sicherman, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Joshua Muravchik, Martin Kramer, Michael Mandelbaum, Robert Satloff, Walter Laqueur on Jul 3rd, 2008 Comments Off on Is it over for America in the Middle East?
MESH marks the Fourth of July by asking this question: Is the American era in the Middle East over? The argument was first made by Richard Haass in an article published in 2006: The American era in the Middle East… has ended…. It is one of history’s ironies that the first war in Iraq, a […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Books, Geopolitics, Iran, Iraq on Jun 23rd, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Marc J. O’Reilly is assistant professor of political science at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. His new book is Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007.
Posted in Geopolitics, Martin Kramer, Michael Young, Terminology, Walter Reich on Jun 12th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Martin Kramer Last September, when I arrived in Cambridge for my fall stay at Harvard, I opened the Boston Globe and saw this headline over an editorial: “The Other Middle East Conflict.” I immediately said to myself: well, I know what the Middle East conflict is—that’s the Israelis and the Palestinians. So what is […]
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