Security 
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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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 [...]
Robert Farley Responds to Spencer Ackerman and Michael Cohen
The responses from Spencer Ackerman and Michael Cohen both boil down to the same point. Many people in the Middle East say that an Iranian nuclear weapon will tip the regional balance of power in alarming ways, and since there is “nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” the balance will be [...]
Michael Cohen Responds to Robert Farley on a Nuclear-Armed Iran
The following is in response to an op-ed by Dr. Robert Farley In Saturday’s Republican national security debate, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney offered the sort of scare-mongering on Iran’s nuclear program that has become the norm in America’s foreign policy debates. “The gravest threat that America and the world faces,” said Romney, is an Iranian nuclear bomb. [...]
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- Spencer Ackerman Responds to Robert Farley on the Significance of an Iranian Nuke
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- Israel Fears Iranian Nuclear Copycat
- The Discovery of Mineral Resources in Afghanistan: Opportunity or Curse?
- The Problems of Arming the Libyan Rebels
