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Iraqi PM defeats pro-Iranian bloc
Preliminary election results of Iraq’s general election are reported by debkafile’s Middle East sources as an impressive victory for the incumbent prime minister Nouri Maliki’s State of Law Coalition, which was backed by Washington. He ha...
le 09-03-2010 à 22-00 Info blog
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
The great merit of this volume lies in its analysis of the strategic outlook and policy dilemmas of a host of states in Eurasia, a tour d'horizon lucidly rendered. Brzezinski's analysis of the triangular relationship among China, Japan, and America ? tog...
le 09-03-2010 à 18-50 Info blog
Advice From Brzezinski on How to Curb Iran
Iran is both today's paramount foreign-policy challenge, and a quandary of the first order. Its nuclear program keeps expanding, its concern about international opprobrium seems limited, and nobody can be sure the United Nations Security Council will find ...
le 08-03-2010 à 23-49 Info blog
Beijing Seeks Paradigm Shift in Geopolitics
China's on-going tussle with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade is in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-U.S. relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related causes of disagreemen...
le 07-03-2010 à 22-08 Info blog
After King Abdullah: Succession in Saudi Arabia
The relationship between Riyadh and Washington affects a range of U.S. foreign policy interests including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East peace process, and energy. Indeed, Saudi Arabia maintains strategic regional standing as well as le...
le 05-03-2010 à 19-23 Info blog
Iraq Prepares for ?Regional Election'
The March 7 parliamentary election in Iraq will be a significant event for several neighboring countries ? including Turkey and Iran, which both want to dominate the region, and Saudi Arabia, analyst Kamran Bokhari says.
Stratfor | March 5, 2010
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le 05-03-2010 à 17-58 Info blog
Two Conflicting Views of Saudi-Iranian Struggle for Hegemony in Arab World
On January 17, 2010, Turki ‘Abdullah Al-Sudeiri, editor of the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh, published an article commending the Saudi king for his initiatives in the Arab world, which, according to Al-Sudeiri, have turned Saudi Arabia into a leading countr...
le 04-03-2010 à 21-34 Info blog
