Recently added articles from Middle East Policy:
Correction, Vol. XVI, Number 2, Summer 2009.(Correction notice)
Sep 22, 2009 ... On page 160, Peter Bechtold wrote "Colin Powell, on orders from the White House, ... stated publicly that genocide was occurring." This should be corrected to "Colin Powell, ...
U.S. withdrawal from Iraq: what are the regional implications?(Conference notes)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The following is an edited transcript of the fifty-seventh in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council The meeting was held on July 16, 2009, in the United States Capitol Visitor Center with Thomas R. Mattair moderating. JAMES F. DOBBINS: ...
The Iraqi military re-enters the Gulf security dynamic.
Sep 22, 2009; ... In May 2003, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, announced the formal dissolution of the Iraqi Republican Army. While Bremer has been widely criticized for this decision--and blamed for the breakdown of security in Iraq that followed--this fateful ...
Iran's 20-year economic perspective: promises and pitfalls.
Sep 22, 2009; ... With the start of its fourth five-year economic development plan in March 2005, the Iranian government issued a document called Iran's 20-Year Economic Perspective, outlining a road map for the country's economic, political, social and cultural developments during the next two decades. The ...
The rise to power of Iran's "Guardians of the Revolution".
Sep 22, 2009; ... In the misty landscape of internal Iranian politics, simplistic ideas are often a substitute for analysis. Many analysts consider that power is entirely in the hands of the Shia mullahs, that the supreme leader decides everything and that the "Guardians of the Revolution"--the ...