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Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA) VOL. 4 (2) – SPRING 2010

in this issue:
Russian Energy Politics and the EU: How to Change the Paradigm

*Authoritarianism and Foreign Policy: The Twin Pillars of Resurgent Russia

*The Georgia Crisis: A New Cold War on the Horizon?

*Enforceability of a Common Energy Supply Security Policy in the EU: Intergovernmentalist Assesement

*“Assembling” a Civic Nation in Kazakhstan: The Nation-Building Role of… »

Hong Kong Journal – n.19 july 2010

The Hong Kong Journal is a quarterly, online publication about political, economic and social issues relating to Hong Kong and its neighborhood. Foundation-financed, it is hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in… »

No. 78: Russian Military Thinking Today – Russian Analytical Digest

(PDF) – in this issue:
*Russia’s New Military Doctrine: A Compromise Document
*The Role of China in Russia’s Military Thinking
*Poll: The Russian Population on Military Threats and the State of the Armed… »

Núm 89-90 Asia en desarrollo: escenarios de riesgos y oportunidades – CIDOB

A nadie sorprende hoy la afirmación de que Asia ha despertado definitivamente de su letargo para convertirse en la región más dinámica del planeta y en un polo emergente de las relaciones internacionales. De manera especial, China e India se han convertido en dos motores esenciales de la economía mundial, gracias a su formidable crecimiento… »

China in North Africa: Oil & Diplomacy in the Maghreb Region – China Monitor

(PDF) – North African countries‘ foreign relations are bound by geography and sustained economic interests. With their proximity to Europe, they perceive the European Union as the strategic partner that is most likely to help them develop their economies and export markets. Since the independence Morocco and Tunisia in 1956 and Algeria in 1962, and… »

CrisisWatch N°82, 01 Jun 2010 – ICG

Four actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in May 2010, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch. Israeli commandos killed at least nine people when they raided a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on 31 May. May also saw renewed… »

CrisisWatch N°81 – ICG

Five actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in April 2010, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin… »

CHINA BRIEF – April 16, 2010 – Volume X, Issue 8 – Jamestown Foundation

(PDF) – in this issue:
*In a Fortnight – By L.C. Russell Hsiao
*Syria in China’s New Silk Road Strategy – By Christina Y. Lin
*Karzai’s State Visit Highlights Beijing’s Afghan Priorities – By Richard Weitz
*Taiwan’s Navy: Able to Deny Command of the Sea? – By James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara
*Chinese Defense Expenditures: Implications for Naval… »

Israele senza Palestina – Limes

Dai ‘due stati due popoli’ allo status quo permanente. Storia di un grande… »

The Iraqi elections: external involvement- Bitterlemons Edition 5 Volume 8

in this issue:
*From black sheep to aliens – Safa A. Hussein
*More foreign than domestic interest – Saad N. Jawad
*Cinderella liberty – Mark Perry
*The Iranian dimension – Sadegh… »

Russian Analytical Digest No. 71: Russia’s Economic and Security Relations with Central Asia

(PDF) – Russia is gradually losing its once-dominant role in Central Asia as the countries in the region build ties with other neighbors. “Staple globalism,” which involves a continued strong role for the state in providing commodity exports and selecting imports of capital equipment and luxury consumer goods, plays a strong role in defining Central… »

CrisisWatch N°78, 1 February 2010 – ICG

(PDF) – Two actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in January 2010. In Haiti, up to 200,000 people are feared dead and several hundred thousand displaced after a devastating earthquake struck the country on 12 January. The situation also deteriorated in Nigeria, where a fresh outbreak of violence between… »

Russian Analytical Digest No. 70: The North Caucasus Crisis

(PDF) – This paper addresses the situation in Russia’s Northern Caucasus 10 years after the beginning of the second Chechen War and Vladimir Putin’s subsequent rise to power. It explores the situation in Chechnya after the official end of the counterterrorist operations, discusses social-political instability in Ingushetia and looks at the relations between Dagestan and… »

Pianeta India – Limes 6/2009

in questo volume:

PARTE I INDIA/INDIE

Francesca MARINO – Esiste l’India?
Meghnad DESAI – Un paese di successo che resta molto povero
Enrica GARZILLI – Gandhi dinasty
K.P.S. GILL – La resistibile ascesa dei maoisti nel Bengala senza Stato
Ajai SAHNI – Il cancro maoista si batte con più Stato
Kanchan LAKSHMAN – Il Pakistan resta uno Stato canaglia
Daniela BEZZI – Corridoio… »

Janvier 2010 – le Monde Diplomatique

dans ce numéro:

*Le mythe renaissant de l’islam conquérant

*Reconsidérer le « bien vieillir »

*Un robot en France, un ouvrier en Chine

*La taxe carbone favorise le « tout électrique »

*L’armée mexicaine de l’Union européenne

*Fantômes russes dans l’isoloir ukrainien

*Peut-on réformer les Etats-Unis ?

*En politique extérieure, Washington veut faire plus avec moins

*Detroit, la ville afro-américaine qui rétrécit

*Wall… »

January, 2010 – Commentary

in this issue:
*The Danger of Normaliut -John Podhoretz
*Celluloid Avengers
*Oil Heat
*Marketing Israel
*The Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace – Evelyn Gordon
*Obama’s Next Three Years – John Bolton
*A Never-Ending Economic Crisis? – David M. Smick
*Why Jews Hate Palin – Jennifer… »

Ethics & International Affairs Volume 23.4 (Winter 2009) – Carnegie Council

In the summer of 2008, Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs convened a conference to recognize Michael Walzer’s enormous contribution to the ethical and political philosophy of the 20th century. This issue features selected papers from the… »

Comparative Connections v.11 n.3 – CSIS

in this issue:
-Regional Overview: Promises Kept, for Better and for Worse
-U.S.-Japan Relations: Interpreting Change
-U.S.-China Relations: Strategic & Economic Dialogue Sets Agenda for Cooperation
-U.S.-Korea Relations: Bill’s Excellent Adventure
-U.S.-Russia Relations: Missiles of September
-U.S.-Southeast Asia Relations: The United States Is Back!
-China-Southeast Asia Relations: Myanmar, South China Sea Issues
-China-Taiwan Relations: Temporarily in the Doldrums
-North Korea-South Korea Relations: On the… »

Policy Review No. 158 – Hoover Institution

in this issue:

*The Terror Fringe:
The deterritorialized tail of jihad

*The Root of the Financial Crisis:
A dearth of knowledge at the nexus of decisions

*How China Won and Russia Lost:
Two dissimilar economic paths

*Bottom-up Nation Building:
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and… »

Russian Analytical Digest – No. 69: Internet Blogs

(PDF) – This publication addresses the Russian internet and social media landscape arguing that it has features that are specific to Russia and distinct from counterparts in the US or elsewhere. It specifically analyzes the impact of the Russian blogosphere on the Russian political system.
in this issue:

*The RuNet – Lost in Translation
*The Internet as… »

The EU-Russia Reviews – November 2009

(PDF) – The XII EU-Russia Review ‘Russia, the OSCE and European Security’ is now available.
in this issue:
*The State of the OSCE

*Can the European Security Dialogue Return Russia
the Sense of Ownership of the OSCE?

*Russia and the OSCE Human Dimension: a Critical Assessment

*Russia and Its Commitments in the Politico-Military Dimension of the OSCE

*Russia and OSCE Operations in… »

The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly – Volume 7 – No. 3 – 2009

In this issue:

*Presidential Elections in Kyrgyzstan: Strategies, Context, and
Implications

*Stabilization of Afghanistan: U.S./NATO Regional Strategy
and the Role of SCO

*Reassessing the SCO’s Internal Difficulties: A Chinese Point
of View

*Iran and India’s Cooperation toward Central Asia

*Revisiting Female Suicide in Muslim Tajikistan: Religious,
Cultural, and Public Health Perspectives

*Perspectives on the SCO: Images and Discourses

*The CSTO, the SCO, and Russia’s Strategic Goals… »

Water Wars – World Policy Journal

Water—more so than oil, diamonds, gold, or any other tangible attribute
of our planet—appears increasingly likely to shape the future of diplomacy
and confrontation, cooperation and conflict. The story of water has long been one of conflict and opportunity, but today new tensions are threatening to eclipse the latter. Growing global populations, exploding industry and trade, and… »

CrisisWatch N°76, 1 December 2009 – ICG

Three actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in November 2009. In Yemen, ongoing fighting in the northern Saada region between the government and Houthi-led rebels spilled across the country’s border when the rebels launched an incursion into neighbouring Saudi Arabia. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the northwest province… »

Russian Analytical Digest No. 68: Russia-Georgia Relations

(PDF) – This paper looks at the state of Georgian-Russian relations one year after the end of both countries’ conflict. It reviews the findings of the EU war report, discusses Georgia’s policy toward Russia and the disputed regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and examines the Georgians’ attitudes to Russia. Subsequently, it presents the findings… »

BLACK SEA NEWS UPDATE, 13 November 2009 No.17 – ICBSS

(PDF) – electronic review of regional affairs by the International Centre for Black Sea… »

THE EU-RUSSIA CENTRE REVIEW – XI 2009

(PDF) – The Russian Judicial and Penitentiary… »

Pakistan, la recerca d’una identitat – Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals

El 14 de agosto de 1947 nació Pakistán. Este nacimiento estuvo marcado por la religión, y también por la conflictividad estructural (la propia orografía, la división territorial), vecinal (Afganistán y la India) e interna (desigualdad étnica en el control de la riqueza y poder, preeminencia militar e inestabilidad institucional). La sociedad pakistaní, de amplia base… »

Russian Analytical Digest No. 66: US-Russian Relations

(PDF) -This issue of the Russian Analytical Digest examines the impact of Russia-friendly policies by the Obama administration on both countries’ relations, focusing on issues of arms control. The featured contributions look at the substance of US-Russia relations and discusses issues related to the follow-on negotiations for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty… »

Policy Review No. 156, August & September 2009 – Hoover Institution

*The Tories and the GOP: Lessons in Losing
The limits of political “modernization”

*A Realistic Reset with Russia
Practical expectations for U.S.-Russian relations

*Decline of the Honor Culture
An old code becomes déclassé

*Authoritarianism in Pakistan
The historical roots of dysfunctional politics

*Surrendering Outer Space
America yields the high… »

Mideast Monitor – Vol. 4 No. 1 July-August 2009

SYRIA/LEBANON:
*Still Standing: Aoun after the Elections
*Electoral Reform in Lebanon
*Deconstructing the Popular Vote in Lebanon’s Elections
*The Pivotal Role of Lebanon’s Armenian Christians
REGION:
*Russian-Iranian Relations: Functional Dysfunction
*Russian-Iranian relations may be dysfunctional, but Russia isn’t likely to abandon its troublesome partner.
*Torture Styles of the Rich and Famous: The… »

CrisisWatch N°72, 1 August 2009 – ICG

Four actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and one improved in July 2009, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin… »

afkar / ideas – Número 22, Verano 2009

Revista Trimestral para el dialogo entre el Magreb, España y Europa

tags: Turquía, Unión Europea, Estados Unidos, Magreb, EE UU, Obama, energía, Oriente Medio, Mediterráneo ,… »

Russian Analytical Digest – No. 63: Russia’s Oligarchs

(PDF) – This issue of the Russian Analytical Digest analyzes the role of Russia’s oligarchs in the country’s economic development. Featured articles examine the rise of the oligarchs after 1991, the effectiveness of the oligarchs in managing their businesses under crisis conditions, and the attitude of the Russian state toward… »

La rivolta d’Iran nella sfida Obama-Israele – Limes

Limes 4/2009 in edicola e in libreria dal 7… »

Europe’s World – Summer 2009

Europe-wide policy journal, produced in association with some 100-plus leading European think tanks and academic… »

Politique étrangère 2:2009- Ifri

Politique étrangère est une revue de débats et d’analyses sur les grandes questions internationales. Elle est la plus ancienne revue française dans ce domaine. Son premier numéro a paru en 1936, sous l’égide du Centre d’études de politique étrangère. Depuis 1979, elle est publiée par… »

CrisisWatch N°71, 1 July 2009 – ICG

Nine actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in June 2009, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin… »

Ethics & International Affairs Volume 23.2 (Summer 2009) – Carnegie Council

This issue features a special section on Postwar Justice and the Responsibility to… »

The Nonproliferation Review – July 2009 • Volume 16 • Number 2 – CNS

Articles:
* The NPT: Assessing the Past, Building the Future
* The Health of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime: Returning to a Multidimensional Evaluation
* Chinese Nuclear Posture and Force Modernization
* The Evolution of Cooperative Threat Reduction:… »

African Terrorism bulletin June 2009 – Iss

This issue of the Bulletin looks at the latest US Counter Terrorism Report, which gave the South African Department of Home Affairs a scathing review. According to the report, corruption and inefficiency in the Department render South Africa vulnerable to abuse as a springboard by international… »

Russian Analytical Digest – No. 62: Russia’s National Security Strategy

(PDF) – This issue of the Russian Analytical Digest analyzes the security dimension of Russia’s policy. First, it examines the key policy principles of the Foreign Policy Concept (FPC) and the National Security Strategy (NSS). Further, it considers the national security issues from an economic… »

Journal of Energy Security – June 2009

Issued by The Institute for the Analysis of Global Security… »

Il mare nostro è degli altri – Quaderno Limes

in libreria dal 9… »

Darfur Review III – Fride

DARFUR REVIEW is a monthly selection of Arab official, journalistic and academic sources that are compiled to give an overview of the main events, opinions and documents on Darfur from the perspective of the Arab… »

Current Trends in Islamist Ideology Volume 8 – Hudson Institute

Contents:
The Paradoxes of Shiism
Hillel Fradkin
The Return of Political Mahdism
Jean-Pierre Filiu
The Arab Reception of Vilayat-e-Faqih
Hassan Mneimneh
Hezbollah’s Agenda in Lebanon
Tony Badran
Hezbollah: A State within a State
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
The Shiite Turn in Syria
Khalid Sindawi
Tashayu in Central Asia and Russia
Dina… »

Netanyahu’s Iranian Dilemma – Foreign Affairs

The Israeli public and the country’s intelligence experts have two different views of the threat posed by the Iranian nuclear program. Which will win out, and what is Washington’s… »

Iran Election Bulletin – NDI

This edition examines one of the groups that has been accused of manipulating past elections – the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the basij militia that fall under its purview. Alleged to have had a hand in determining the outcome of the 2005 presidential election, the role the IRGC should play in this… »

Strategic Assessment, June 2009 – Inss

(PDF) – In this issue: nuclear legislation for Israel; improved morality in the IDF; Israel’s strategy of unilateral witdrawal; the MFA situation assessment; Israel-EU relations; Israel and Egypt thirty years since the peace treaty; Syria between active and passive rsistance to Israel; and revisiting basic assumptions of the peace… »

Land War: The Battle over Israel’s Settlements – Fp

As Washington gears up for a showdown over Israel’s settlements, settlers are taking matters into their own… »