Armenian Blackmail
SEDAT LAÇINER,
USAK,
Mar 12, 2010,
The Diaspora, and also of course Armenia, uses blackmail as a means to fight against Turkey and the Turks. There are many historical examples of it coming from the 19th century.
Iraq: The right idea after all
JOSEPH R. WOOD *,
GMF,
Mar 12, 2010,
WASHINGTON — “Bush was right” is not a view frequently expressed in the New York Times. But, there it was, in Thomas Friedman’s March 10 column: “Former President George W. Bush’s gut instinct that this region craved and needed democracy was always right.”
Not just Greece, not just money: The geopolitical stakes of Southern Europe
IAN O. LESSER *,
GMF,
Mar 11, 2010,
VENICE -The Greek crisis is the product of decades of mismanagement in public finance, a lack of transparency, and the pitfalls of sovereign debt in an age of credit default swaps.
Belarus' Aleksander Lukashenko, European Chessmaster
PAVOL DEMEŠ ,
GMF,
Mar 05, 2010,
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — When Aleksander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus, began a recent campaign to intimidate and punish members of the country’s disobedient Polish community, he opened a new front not only with neighboring Poland, but also with the EU as a whole that must now meet that challenge head on.