By Daniel Yergin Wall Street Journal “The sooner Prudhoe Bay is safely back in operation, the better: A market this tight is very vulnerable to shocks of any kind. The shocks don’t have to be physical. From late March, the price of oil has been primarily driven up not by actual disruption (until Prudhoe Bay); […]
By www.strategypage.com www.strategypage.com August 7, 2006: Arab media continue to revel in their victory over Israel. Hizbollah has not been smashed, Lebanese civilians continue to get killed, as do Israelis. In Arab eyes, this is winning. Which explains why the Arab world has fallen behind the rest of the planet in almost every measure (economically, […]
By Simon Serfaty CSIS Serfaty examines the EU-US partnership, making many recommendations to both parties. Europe must clearly define itself as an international actor, and seeing a strong, united and open Europe is in turn a major US interest…more
By Brent Scowcroft The Washington Post Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated that a simple cease-fire in Lebanon is not the solution to the current violence. She says it is necessary to deal with the roots of the problem. She is right on both counts. But Hezbollah is not the source of the problem; […]
By William Wallis Financial Times The road to a peaceful Jerusalem does not run through Baghdad, as American neo-conservatives argued in 2001-03 – nor through Tehran or Damascus which, according to hawks in the US and Israel, should be under attack. It runs through Washington…more