A recent report from The Jamestown Foundation put a spotlight in the activities of Neo-Eurasian ideologist, the politically connected extremist Aleksandr Dugin , to build bridges with Turkey’s Pan-Turkic movement :
“….On the one hand, attempts are made to turn the two “Eurasias” into allies rather than competitors; on the other hand, there has been a Dugin-style ideologization of the term in response to American ascendancy. The question is whether the concurrence of these two modes of “Russification” of the Turkish Avrasya is incidental, or whether they are two sides of the same coin. In the 1990s, articles on the Turkish variety of Avrasya systematically criticized Russian Eurasianism; in the early 2000s, the tone changed noticeably. Several Turkish advocates of a more militant Eurasianism called upon their fellow citizen to emulate Russia in developing a specifically Turkish interpretation of this concept [6]. In 2002, at the c...
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Some Important AFRICOMmentaryFrom: zenpundit.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 19:35:29
My schedule recently did not permit much in the way of my normal, extensive, blogsurfing that is the genesis of my regularly scheduled Recommended Reading posts. I would however, like to highlight Matt Armstrong’s recent, in depth, post on AFRICOM . Much like 7-Up, if the vision pans out, AFRICOM is to be “The Un-Combatant” Command. Sys Admin from the inception, interagency “jointness” in conception. But will that actually happen in the real world?
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more A Barnett in a China ShopFrom: zenpundit.com
Post Date: 2008-03-06 08:42:29
Tom appears to have really rattled somebody’s cage at The White Wouse with his profile of CENTCOM commander Admiral Fallon in Esquire Magazine .Â
The Man Between War and Peace by Thomas P.M. Barnett
The money quote from the magazine article that probably caused political WWIII:
Last December, when the National Intelligence Estimate downgraded the immediate nuclear threat from Iran, it seemed as if Fallon’s caution was justified. But still, well-placed ob...
more MountainRunner at Democracy ProjectFrom: zenpundit.com
Post Date: 2008-03-06 20:44:36
Usually, when I link to Democracy Project it is to highlight some important problem that my friend Bruce Kesler attacking head on. Today, Bruce has invited another friend, Matt Armstrong of MountainRunner , to share the spotlight in a special guest post in an area of expertise - the crisis of American public diplomacy:
U.S. Tongue-Ties Self In Talking To World
To begin with, we must accept that the romantic days of the United States Information Agency are gone. So many ...
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