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November 6, 2014

United States
This Week: Violence in Jerusalem, Nusra gains in Syria, and U.S. Policy Shift on Isis

Significant Developments Jordan-Israel-Palestine. The Jordanian Minister of Islamic Affairs, Hayel Dawood, accused Israel yesterday of attacking the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and of causing fire d…

Israeli border police officers walks in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City November 5, 2014 (Awad/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

October 25, 2013

Thailand
Talks With Thai Insurgents Stall

The Thai government recently announced that its peace talks with several representatives of the southern Thai insurgents have been postponed indefinitely. As Anthony Davis notes in an excellent piece…

Thick smoke rises from a burning police truck as rubber farmers clash with riot police in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, south of Bangkok on September 16, 2013. (Stringer/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

December 10, 2006

Financial Markets
Are the world’s oil exporters shifting away from the dollar?

The FT says so, drawing on work that from the Bank of International Settlements.I like a good petrodollar story -- and a good central bank diversification story -- as much as the next guy.   A lot mo…

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Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

October 16, 2012

United States
TWE Remembers: JFK Learns that Soviet Missiles Are in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day One)

Hillary Clinton famously ran a political attack ad during the 2008 primary campaign saying that a president had to be prepared for a 3:00 a.m. phone call saying that something bad had happened overse…

Map of Cuba annotated by President John F. Kennedy during his first CIA briefing on October 16, 1962. The map is displayed at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. (Brian Snyder/ courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

August 3, 2011

Turkey
Tarnished Brass

Turkey's PM Erdogan is flanked by General Ozel, Defense Minister Yilmaz and top military officials (Umit Bektas/Courtesy Reuters) This is my article published on ForeignPolicy.com on August 2. Comme…

Tarnished Brass
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates