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November 6, 2014

This Week: Violence in Jerusalem, Nusra gains in Syria, and U.S. Policy Shift on Isis

Significant Developments Jordan-Israel-Palestine. The Jordanian Minister of Islamic Affairs, Hayel Dawood, accused Israel yesterday of attacking the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and of causing fire d…

Israeli border police officers walks in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City November 5, 2014 (Awad/Courtesy Reuters).

Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

November 19, 2010

Diplomacy and International Institutions

Friday File: Obama Heads to Lisbon

Above the Fold. President Obama’s scheduler must be nursing a grudge. Last Sunday the president returned from what had to be an exhausting ten-day, around-the-world trip that took him to four coun…

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

December 1, 2003

North Korea

Neocon Calls Bush’s Policy Toward North Korea ’Confused’

The Daily Yomiuri: How would you define neoconservativism?Boot: I’d have to put it in the context of the three main schools of American foreign policy. One is the realpolitik school, which holds that…

Interview by Max Boot

January 7, 2013

International Organizations

Time for a Coalition of Capable, Like-Minded Democracies?

Could a coalition of democracies help the United States address some of its more daunting global challenges? In a new CFR working paper, Like-Minded and Capable Democracies: A New Framework for Adva…