The Middle East
January 2006
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Title: Withdraw Now
Author: William Odom
"The invasion of Iraq may well turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in us history. And the longer America stays, the worse it will be."
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Title: Stay to Win
Author: John McCain
JOHN MCCAIN, a Republican, represents Arizona in the US Senate. This essay is adapted from a speech he gave at the American Enterprise Institute on November 10, 2005.
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Title: The "Victory" Strategy: Grand Bargain or Grand Illusion?
Author: A. G. Hopkins
A. G. HOPKINS is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include an edited volume, Globalization in World History (Norton, 2002).
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Title: A "Shiite Crescent"? The Regional Impact of the Iraq War
Author: Juan Cole
JUAN COLE is a professor of history at the University of Michigan and author of the web log “Informed Comment” (juancole.com). His most recent book is Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture, and History of Shiite Islam (London: I. B. Tauris, 2002).
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Title: Democracy in the Rough
Author: Phebe Marr
PHEBE MARR is a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace. She is the author of The Modern History of Iraq (Westview, 2nd ed., 2003).The views expressed here are her own.
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Title: Iraq and Democracy: The Lessons Learned
Author: Larry Diamond
LARRY DIAMOND, a Current History contributing editor, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005). In 2004 he served as a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad.
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Title: The Middle East's Corruption Conundrum
Author: Kate Gillespie
KATE GILLESPIE is an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in November 2005, country by country, day by day.
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Title: The Middle East
A map of the Middle East.
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