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Turkey’s Reactions to the Arab Spring(1)
by Sebnem Gumuscu Turkish foreign policy since the Justice and Development Party (AKP in Turkish) came to power in 2002 has been oriented towards deepening economic relations with the Middle East, and advancing Turkish interests in the region. The Arab Spring only intensified Turkish involvement. The Turkish government has been using different instruments, such as [...]
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Yes, You Can Say ‘Genocide,’ Mr. President.
Mark Dietzen March 16, 2012 On April 24, 2012, the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, President Obama will have the opportunity to fulfill his campaign promise to officially recognize Ottoman Turkey’s deliberate and systematic destruction of its Armenian population as genocide. For decades, the United States has refrained from formal recognition of the mass [...]
New Pentagon Budget Offers Smaller Wars, But More of Them
by Aroop Mukharji Last month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced plans to slash the defense budget by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, reducing the size of the army 14% by 2022. Panetta and the Obama administration simultaneously plan to increase Washington’s fleet of armed, unmanned aircraft by almost 300%, ushering [...]
The One Percent Worth Defending
By Jessie Daniels There’s another one percent coming under attack these days – the US foreign aid budget. Many who are pushing for cuts argue that we do not receive anything in return for our foreign assistance. With one in five Americans believing that foreign aid accounts for as much as 30 percent of the [...]
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