GLORIA Center
Global Research in International Affairs The GLORIA Center is a research institute focusing on international affairs, combining traditional high-standards of scholarship, timely analysis, and new technology to produce the most accurate possible view of issues and events. More about GLORIAGLORIA's Middle East Blog
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How Can Turkey's Government Be a U.S. Ally if it's an Ally of Iran?
March 17, 2010Syria's government newspaper says Turkey is an ally of Syria and Iran. Iran's president says that Turkey is an ally of Syria and Iran. And now the prime minister of Turkey says basically the same thing. Yet much of the West is blind to what is right there out in the open... -
How Bad is the Quality of Media Coverage? A Small Example
March 15, 2010Here's an example of just how bad media coverage is. I'm not writing this as an example of anti-Israel media bias but of just poor reporting which applies to lots of other stories... -
How Quick They Forget: A Short History of U.S. Policy and Israeli Construction in East Jerusalem
March 14, 2010For more than four months the U.S. government has been celebrating Israel agreeing to stop construction on settlements in the West Bank while continuing building in east Jerusalem as a great step forward and Israeli concession deserving a reward... -
Announcing Construction of East Jerusalem Apartments: Stupid, Yes; Proof of Disinterest in Peace, No
March 11, 2010There's been a lot of nonsense written about an Israeli government announcement that 1600 apartments will be built in east Jerusalem. The timing was stupid, of course... -
Zbigniew Brzezinski on Iran: Still Clueless After All These Years
March 7, 2010I remember it as if it were yesterday. January 20, 1978. I was visiting an esteemed professor at Georgetown University and we were talking about the new Carter Administration. The conversation went to Zbigniew Brzezinski... -
Will Obama Have an Iraq Crisis?
March 2, 2010If--and I repeat, if--this story is true it is going to be a very big development that may, as they like to see in the television promos, change the Obama administration forever...
Current Articles
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Why What General Patraeus Said Is Wrong About the Middle East (Or Is It Just Being Misinterpreted?)
March 17, 2010General David Petraeus is a smart guy, one of the smartest in the U.S. government at present. But he's no Middle East expert. Let's examine two remarks he made in his congressional testimony... -
Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis
March 16, 2010It is important to understand that the current controversy over construction in east Jerusalem is neither a public relations' problem nor a bilateral policy dispute. It arises because of things having nothing directly to do with this specific point... -
The Palestinian Authority Walks Out of Talks with a Big Smile on Its Face
March 15, 2010In 1994, Israel asserted, and the PLO accepted, that construction would continue on existing Jewish settlements. For the next 15 years, negotiations were never stopped by that building... -
How to Make Defeatism Look Good: Let's Give Up and Cheer the Islamists
March 12, 2010Iâm not going to bash or rant about a Newsweek article about Turkey by Owen Matthews--shocking and dangerous as it is--but rather talk about what is wrong and inaccurate about it. That article is part of a new wave of defeatism... -
Going Backward? Understanding and Attempts to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
March 10, 2010Last September, President Barack Obama said before a large audience at the UN that within two months there would be intensive, direct, final status talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Sort of a Camp David III... -
The Saudi Foreign Minister Explains the New Middle East
March 9, 2010Here's today's evidence that we are now living in Middle East 2.0 instead of the old version. First, a definition: Middle East 1.0: Characterized by Arab nationalist domination... -
Pardon Me, Obama Administration, But Isn't Your Policy on Fire?
March 8, 2010The story of the U.S. engagement with Syria and the sanctions issue regarding Iran's nuclear program are fascinating. Each day there's some new development showing how the Obama Administration is acting like a deer standing in the middle of a busy highway...
MERIA Journal
The Middle East Review of International Affairs
The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal is the world's largest journal on the region, published quarterly by the GLORIA Center with a global audience More about MERIA
Current Issue:
Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2009)
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GOLDSTONE'S GAZA REPORT: PART ONE: A FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE
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GOLDSTONE'S GAZA REPORT: PART TWO: A MISCARRIAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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U.S. POLICY TOWARD PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
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IRAQ'S NEW POLITICAL ELITES: A DREAM COME TRUE?
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OPPOSITION FOR THE SAKE OF OPPOSITION? POLARIZED PLURALISM IN TURKISH POLITICS
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TO PERPETUATE THEIR DICTATORSHIPS, ARAB RULERS RESORT TO THE ISLAMIC CREED
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THE SIGNIFICANT WARMING OF INDO-ISRAELI RELATIONS IN THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD
Projects
Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East
Current Contents of periodicals on the Middle East reports about journal articles on the Middle East. It appears six times a year and is sent to all MERIA Journal subscribers.PRISM
This project provides reports on radical Islamist movements, especially their ideological presentations and internal debates, usually analyzing materials otherwise unavailable in English. Separate free subscription available.Turkish Studies Institute
The institute's activities include: the publication of Turkish Studies journal (with Taylor and Francis) and the Global Directory of Scholars on Turkey, an online guide to scholars studying all aspects of modern Turkey. Additional research material is also available through this site.U.S. Foreign Policy
The GLORIA program for the study of U.S. Middle East policy examines current and evolving U.S. policy. This project includes detailed year-by-year assessments of U.S. regional policy for a 25-year period.
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