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The Middle East and the 'Paradox of Engagement'
23 hours ago ago from democracyarsenal.org
A new article of mine on Obama's Middle East strategy has just come out in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas . You can read it here (or in pdf ). It looks at the internal contradictions inherent in any policy of with the Arab world: how do you appeal to Arab regimes and Arab publics simultaneously? It then proposes what I call a “re-orientation” in U.S. policy based around two policy : positive conditionality and targeted Islamist engagement. ...
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21 hours ago ago from About.com Immigration Issues
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18 hours ago ago from gringo lost
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13 hours ago ago from Discourse.net
Susan Crawford is back at U. Mich. Law from a year as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy on the National Economic Council. And that means she's blogging again starting with a Q&A about the last year. It was fun, she says, but she promised her Dean she'd only be away a year. Welcome back, Susan.
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