Selected International Affairs Publications & Resources

State Department Counter-Terrorism Resources

Patterns of Global terrorism

Chronology of terrorism incidents

Statistical charts on terrorism, 1981-2000

Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Global Security.org

The Washington Post news updates on national security

The Washington Post columns on intelligence issues

International Herald Tribune

Links to newspapers in other countries

The Los Angeles Times

Time Magazine

Newsweek Magazine

The Economist

The Globalist

Foreign Affairs Magazine

The Atlantic Magazine

Middle East Insight Magazine

The Jerusalem Report

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

United States Institute of Peace

Brookings Institution

Council on Foreign Relations

Asia Society

Woodrow Wilson Int'l Center

The Heritage Foundation

SAIS/Johns Hopkins

Speakout.com

U.S. Department of State

State Dept Country Background Notes

United Nations

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Clinton era White House web site (National Archives)

CIA World Factbook

Newspapers of the world (Actualidad)

WorldPress Review (newspapers of the world)

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Books

Required:

Global Agenda 2005 Anthology

(available exclusively at Delaware Book Exchange)

Paperback
Publisher: Foreign Affairs Magaqzine

Index of readings available online -

Note: Some links may require a free subscription to the NY Times online

INDEX

Overview

Making Sense of the Middle East

Oceans Apart? Europe & the US

Secret Potion: Worldwide Women (updated)

Iraq: The Best medicine

Tomorrow's Enemy: al-Qaeda & Beyond

Asia Enigma: China & North Korea

Sleeping Giants: Nuclear Threats

New materials added during the semester

Overview

• The Yikes Years - life as lone superpower makes Cold War look easy (WP)
• Bush World Order (NYT)
• Iraq and US "legitimacy" in the world (Foreign Affairs)
• Mid-course corrections needed (Foreign Affairs)
• Powell defends Bush foreign policy (Foreign Affairs)
• Democratic perspective (Foreign Affairs)
• US politics is everyone's politics (WP)
• End of US Empire? (NYT)
• The Perils Of Empire (WP)
• "Hard power" as "soft" power (NYT)
• Two Years Later, a Thousand Years Ago (NYT)
• America the Invulnerable? (NYT)
• "Learning Americanian" (Glimpse)
• CIA Director Tenet's annual "threat assessment" 2004 (NYT)

Making Sense of the Middle East

• Commentaries by our speaker, Rami Khouri
  • How to Reduce Terror
  • Najaf and the Five Modern Arab Crises
  • Time to Implement Arab Presidential Term Limits
  • Middle East and Washington Reform Each Other
  • Election of Ghosts in Iraq
  • The Hysterical Road from September 11 to Fallujah
  • The "Swamp" Threatens to Engulf Us All
  • After Arafat
  • Political Stirrings in the Arab World
  • Bush's Inauguration Speech: A Credibility Gap Too Wide to Bridge
• Mideast rulers - rulers for life (WP)
• Iran's nukes - perspective from israel (NYT)
• Iraq's elections shake up others in the middle east (NYT)
• Oil producers still in the driver's seat (NYT)
  • OPEN oil chart (NYT)
• Political Islam - where's it going after Iraq? (Foreign Affairs)
• United Nations Arab Human Development Report (online)
  • Summary of UNDP Arab report (pdf download)
• Taking Arabs Seriously (FA)
• Securing the Gulf (FA)
• The Saudi Paradox (FA)
• Iraq War
  • Winning the Unwinnable War (Foreign Affairs)
  • What Went Wrong (Foreign Affairs)
• US covertly aided Iraq in 1980's - NYT 8/18/2002
• NYT:Islam In the World (graphic)
• National Geographic: The World of Islam
  • National Geographic: Map of the Islamic World
    (Caution! large download; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)
    
• US and Iran Flirt with Closer Ties (WP)
• Future of Islam (WP)
• Saudi Links Went Unexamined Pre-911 (NYT)
• U.S.-Saudi Alliance Appears Strong (WP)
• U.S.-Saudi Ties Frayed (NYT)
• U.S. Exit from Saudi Arabia (WP)
• An American Muslim at the hajj (WP)

Oceans Apart? Europe & the US

• Europe and US differ on handling Iran (NYT)
• Europe and US differ on arms sales to China (WPost)
• United Europe helps the US, doesn't it? (NYT)
• Europe isn't United anyway (NYT)
• Condolleezza Rice Prescription for Europe (NYT)
• Despite sensitivity, US keeps nukes in Europe (NYT)
• Robert Kagan on "Old Europe" and US policy (WP)
• Attacks by Arabs on Jews in France Revive Old Fears (NYT)
• How the West Can Be One (NYT)
• Bridges, Bombs or Bluster? (FA)
• Rebuilding the Atlantic Alliance (FA)
• A Strategy of Partnerships (FA)

Secret Potion: Worldwide Women

Iraq: the Best Medicine

Tomorrow's Enemy: al-Qaeda & Beyond

• World doesn't share US view of "war on terror" (NYT)
• Business Versus Terror - Rothkopf
• When the Buzz Bites Back - Rothkopf
• The Protean Enemy (FA)
• In Praise of Cultural Imperialism? - Rothkopf
• Cultural Imperialism rebuttal - Maynes Foreign Affairs (pdf download)
• Bioweapons for Sale - (WP)
• The Spread of Global Pathogens Can Imperil Us All (RAND)
• The Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy (RAND) - Online
  • Summary of above (pdf download)
• Globalization & Disease: Institutions, Policies and the Threat of Bioterrorism (SAIS) (pdf download)
• Regional terror groups pose newest threat (NYT)

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Asia Enigma: China & North Korea