THE DIPLOMATIC TIMES REVIEW : Opinion & Analysis

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MUNIR UMRANI

Chicago, IL, USA
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Opinion & Analysis

May 6, 2009: What Are Africa’s Expectations From Obama?
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“Will President Barack Obama be able to deliver in accordance with the super-hero status that Africans are bestowing on him?” That question is addressed in Centre for International Governance Innovation senior researcher Hany Besada in a May 6, 2009, “open...

May 3, 2009: Some Candor, Please, About the Taliban in Pakistan
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(Editor’s Note: The article below was published in The International News of Pakistan on Saturday, May 02, 2009. The Diplomatic Times Review is publishing it with the permission of the author, a Harvard educated lawyer and practicing attorney based in...

Apr 19, 2009: Peter Galbraith: President Obama Has the ‘Luxury of Being Pragmatic…’
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Peter W. Galbraith, United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, offers an assessment of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy initiatives in an interview with foreign affairs columnist and global educator John C. Bersia. See...

Apr 8, 2009: Will Turkey Become a Key Player in U.S. Middle East Strategy?
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Patrick Wrigley, an Istanbul based freelance journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey, Asserts in an April 8, 2009, article at Asia Times Online that, “The arrival of United States President Obama in Ankara [Turkey] on Sunday [April 5, 2009]signaled the growing...

Apr 6, 2009: Diplomatic Notes
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“Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Kazakhstan [on April 6, 2009] for a two-day visit, his first to the Central Asian state,” reports EurAsia.Net. Still in the Middle East: Syndicated columnist David Ignatius writes: The Obama administration is preparing the...

Apr 5, 2009: Is Telling the Truth America Bashing?
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Is President Barack Obama, who raised the United States’ likability quotient during his visit to the G20 and NATO summits in Europe during the past few days, “bashing” America when he acknowledges how the U.S. has behaved in the international...

Apr 4, 2009: Is the U.S. Turning Afghanistan Into Iraq?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Opinion & Analysis

On April 03, 2009, Professor Juan Cole over at Informed Comment published “Top Ten Ways the US is Turning Afghanistan into Iraq,” which I highly recommend. His analysis of President Barack Obama’s recently released Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy and facts...

Mar 23, 2009: Wanted: A Consistent U.S. Position on Mexico
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Denise Dresser, a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times' Opinion section and a columnist for the Mexico City-based newspaper Reforma, offers an insightful analysis of the often prickly relationship between Mexico and the United States as Secretary of State...

Mar 22, 2009: Is Global Economic Crisis Too Complex for World's Elected Leaders?
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Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University Japan in Tokyo, and Andy Zelleke, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s esteemed John F. Kennedy School of Government and co-director of Harvard’s Center for...

Jan 19, 2009: Recommended: ‘Jews Should Learn From African Americans and Move On’
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Recommended: Martin Varsavsky’s January 19, 2009, essay at The Huffington Post headlined “Jews Should Learn From African Americans and Move On.” It’s thought provoking, timely and will likely result in widespread criticism of Mr. Varsavsky. But I’m sure he knew...