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a and Iran to stop enabling Mr. Assad's savagery. The Washington Post rian intervention is justifiable, and just Anne-Marie Slaughter June 9 -- Henry Kissinger recently argued against intervention in Syria ["The perils of intervention in Syria," Sunday Opinion, June 3] on the grounds that it would imperil

violence in Iraq resulted in large part from the U.S. determination to destroy those institutions along with Saddam Hussein. As a cautionary tale, Kissinger and others point not only to Iraq but also to Libya. Kissinger lumped Libya in with Yemen, Somalia and northern Mali as a "blank space" on the map

lopment arrangement focused on Central Asia. (In a coincidence of scheduling, Hillary Clinton was meeting some of her allies on the Syrian issue in Istanbul at the same time.) How to handle Syria, Iran and the U.S. were topics for discussion in Beijing. Russia's Bind Putin has vowed that Syria will not

re Management University and Copenhagen Business School. Anicle 2. The Washington Post Putin's Ukraine gambit Charles Krauthammer EFTA00684331 Henry Kissinger once pointed out that since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year. All undone, of course, by the collapse

e to Kiev: We can shut down your agricultural exports today, your natural gas supplies tomorrow. We can make you broke and we can make you freeze. Kissinger once also said, "In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power." Either Ukraine will fall to Russian hegemony or finall

egedly telling his son to hide large sums of money has created a crisis for the once-unassailable leader just weeks before key elections. 2.27.14 ISTANBUL-It was Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 60th birthday this week, but the Turkish Prime Minister could be forgiven for not being in the mood for celebrations.

ate: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:26:17 +0000 23 April, 2012 Article 1. The Washington Post Nuclear weapon reductions must be part of strategic analysis Henry A. Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft Article 2. The National Interest The Fantasy of Zero Nukes Amitai Etzioni Article 3. The Weekly Standard Negotiations That

atification of the START treaty. We favor verification of agreed reductions and procedures that enhance predictability and transparency. One of us (Kissinger) has supported working toward the elimination of nuclear weapons, albeit with the proviso that a series of verifiable intermediate steps that maint

t Matter Reuel Marc Gerecht April 30, 2012 -- Since we don't know what Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, said at the recent confab in Istanbul, we can't be sure that Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu was right to dismiss the powwow as a "freebie" for Tehran. Also, the Islamic Republic

archer at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Anicic 5. Project Syndicate The Paranoid Style in Chinese Politics Minxin Pei 17 April 2012 — Henry Kissinger, who learned a thing or two about political paranoia as Richard Nixon's national security adviser and Secretary of State, famously said that even a

inese Politics Minxin Pei 17 April 2012 — Henry Kissinger, who learned a thing or two about political para

he edge of the cliff, but they don't seem eager to jump. The mechanics of an eventual settlement are clear enough after Saturday's first session in Istanbul: Iran would agree to stop enriching uranium to the 20 percent level and to halt work at an underground facility near Qom built for higher enrichmen

but they never quite step up to the task of jointly solving problems. It seems they prefer to let things fester rather than take decisive action. Henry Kissinger argues in his new book, "On China," that the Chinese are culturally unfamiliar with the experience of being allies. Other nations were regarded chi

tribute payments to the Middle Kingdom, and China didn't even have a foreign ministry EFTA_R1_02029354 EFTA02689729 22 until the 19th century, Kissinger says. The Obama administration may be asking for a kind of cooperation that China does not yet know how to give. The same partnership deficit has

omic Forum in Davos is a case in point. Erdogan accused Peres of "knowing well how to kill," and then stormed off the stage and boarded a plane to Istanbul. He returned to a hero's welcome. The highly publicized spat earned the AKP a badly needed boost ahead of local elections in March 2009. Erdogan's

the parties to something like binding arbitration, stop speaking about psychological breakthrough, and start implementing American policy—more Dr. Kissinger, less Dr. Phil. The breakdown Kerry described, after all, is not in actual negotiations but in a contrived show of reciprocity that masks how negot

cial democrat Republican People's Party (known as CHP, for its Turkish initials), polling 26 percent nationwide. CHP was unable to wrest control of Istanbul from AKP and even in Ankara, where the incumbent AKP mayor appeared weak, the two parties' candidates just about tied, and votes are still being co