ACHIEVING MODERNITY & MODERATION IN THE MUSLIM WORLD:  THE TUNISIAN MODEL FOR AN ISLAMIC REFORMATION -- TUNISIA'S DEVELOPMENT IN RECENT YEARS OF AN ENVIRONMENT OF CO-EXISTENCE AMONG JEWS, CHRISTIANS & MUSLIMS, AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH MODERNITY SERVES AS A COMMON DENOMINATOR & RELIGION DOES NOT GET IN THE WAY OF ONE'S DAY-TO-DAY LIFE -- TUNISIA'S POLITICAL STABILITY, WESTERN-ARAB SYNTHESIS, & ECONOMIC VISION:  A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FOR OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN STATES

EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE BALANCE & OBJECTIVITY IN THE EXAMINATION & ANALYSIS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD:   SEEKING LESS POLITICIZATION, GREATER DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVE, MORE ATTENTION TO THE THREAT OF MILITANT ISLAM, & AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE POST-COLONIALIST & ANTI-WESTERN BIASES CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP & SOCALLED "SCHOLARSHIP" LONG DOMINANT IN THE FIELD OF MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES -- THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA:  FORMED TO PROVIDE A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION THAT WOULD BE MORE INDEPENDENT & REFLECT THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY MORE THAN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES & SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  DE-EMPHASIZING PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & ONCE AGAIN EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN REGIONAL STABILITY AS A U.S. FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY -- FACING THE DOWNSIDE OF A STRATEGY BASED ON THE IDEA THAT DICTATORS BRING STABILITY TO A REGION -- INSTABILITY AS A LOOMING THREAT IN FOUR WESTERN-ALLIED DICTATORSHIPS THAT MANY AT HIGH LEVELS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PERCEIVE AS BULWARKS OF STABILITY:  EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, TUNISIA, & OMAN

IRAN, AFRICA, & LATIN AMERICA:  THE IRANIAN REGIME'S PURSUIT OF A COORDINATED DIPLOMATIC, ECONOMIC, & MILITARY STRATEGY TO EXPAND ITS INFLUENCE IN AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA -- IRAN'S SUCCESS IN VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA, BOLIVIA, SENEGAL, ZIMBABWE, & SOUTH AFRICA -- CHALLENGING U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE AFRICAN & LATIN AMERICAN REGIONS -- CHALLENGING THE MONROE DOCTRINE IN LATIN AMERICA -- AFRICA AS IRAN'S NEXT FRONTIER -- THE DAMAGE THAT CAN BE DONE BY AHMADINEJAD'S OUTREACH STRATEGY -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. TO DESIGN & IMPLEMENT A STRATEGY TO REVERSE AHMADINEJAD'S RECENT GAINS IN PURSUIT OF HIS GLOBAL STRATEGY TO UNDERMINE AMERICA & THE WEST

THE ISLAMIST THREAT:  THE CLOSE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ISLAMISM & FASCISM -- THE WILL OF THE ISLAMISTS TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS -- ISLAMIST DETERMINATION TO CONQUER THE WEST, SUBJUGATE CHRISTIANS, & EXTINGUISH POLITICAL OPPONENTS -- ISLAMISM VERSUS MODERATE ISLAM -- IRAN, ISRAEL, & THE WEST -- THE NEED TO FIGHT THE ISLAMISTS POLITICALLY, IDEOLOGICALLY, & MILITARILY

EUROPE'S CURRENT POLICY TOWARD LIBYAN DICTATOR, TERRORISM SUPPORTER, & INTERNATIONAL TROUBLE-MAKER MUAMMAR QADHAFI:  EUROPEAN LEADERS CLAIM SUCCESS IN THE REFORM & REHABILITATION OF THE LIBYAN POLITICAL REGIME & CITE THEIR SOCALLED "SUCCESS" AS EVIDENCE THAT EUROPE'S POLICY OF SLOW, DELIBERATIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH ROGUE REGIMES WORKS -- THE REALITY:  QADHAFI'S ATTITUDES TOWARD HUMAN RIGHTS & TERRORISM REMAIN UNCHANGED -- NOT ONLY DOES QADHAFI CONTINUE TO SPONSOR TERRORISM & VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS, HE MAY AT ANY TIME USE THE EUROPEAN INJECTION OF CASH & TECHNOLOGY TO RESURRECT HIS WMD PROGRAMS

HIGH TIME FOR A MAJOR CHANGE IN THE WEST'S POLICY TOWARD GAZA:  THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES TO DECLARE THE EXPERIMENT IN GAZAN SELF-RULE A FAILURE, WITHDRAW SUPPORT FOR ANY POLITICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GAZA STRIP & THE PALESTINIAN ARAB WEST BANK, & CONTRIVE THE RETURN OF GAZA TO EGYPT, PRESSURING THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TO ANNEX, TIGHTLY CONTROL, & TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GAZA

THE BUSH PRESIDENCY & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- HOW A MAJOR WORLD POWER'S BROKEN PROMISES IMPACT UPON INTERNATIONAL CRISES -- THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF DETERIORATING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & ONCE-STAUNCH ALLIES SUCH AS TURKEY, ISRAEL, TAIWAN, JAPAN, & SOUTH KOREA -- HOW WELL HAS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LIVED UP TO ITS COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST?

MODERN EGYPT:  ITS HISTORY, POLITICS, POLITICAL REGIME, PUBLIC POLICY, & POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, & ISLAMISM IN EGYPT -- RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE

THE MIDDLE EAST, MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL REGIMES, & UNITED STATES AID TO MIDDLE EASTERN DISSIDENTS:   TO WHAT ENTENT & IN WHAT WAYS SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGE & SUPPORT POLITICAL DISSIDENTS & PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES GOVERNED BY OPPRESSIVE, TYRANNICAL REGIMES?   SHOULD PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY UNDER THE RULE OF LAW BE A FOREIGN POLICY GOAL OF THE U.S.A. IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

RAPPROCHMENT BETWEEN LIBYA & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  HOW & WHY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S CURRENT POLICY TOWARD LIBYA & MU'AMMAR AL-QADHAFI'S POLITICAL REGIME IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE -- HOW LONGTERM U.S. INTERESTS ARE BEING HARMED -- THE POLICY'S IMPACT ON THE LIBYAN PEOPLE

THE CURRENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBYA & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  HAS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S SUCCESS IN RESOLVING ITS MOST VITAL DIFFERENCES WITH THE MU'AMMAR QADHAFI POLITICAL REGIME IN LIBYA BEEN THE RESULT OF A ROBUST U.S. POLICY OF FORCE PROJECTION IN IRAQ?  WOULD SIMILAR FORCE PROJECTION BY THE U.S.A. CREATE COMPARABLE COMPLIANCE FROM OTHER HOSTILE REGIMES, SUCH AS THOSE IN SYRIA, IRAN, & NORTH KOREA?

MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY:  MIDDLE EASTERN SOCIETIES, THEIR POLITICAL HISTORY, THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS, & THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.A. -- AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN SOUTHWEST & CENTRAL ASIA & IN NORTH AFRICA -- IRAQ, IRAN, KURDISTAN, SYRIA, LIBYA, & SOUTH YEMEN

ISLAMISM & AUTHORITARIANISM VERSUS CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  ISLAMIST POLITICS & THE EGYPTIAN DICTATORSHIP OF HOSNI MUBARAK VERSUS AGITATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL REFORM IN EGYPT -- THE STORY OF EGYPTIAN DISSIDENT AYMAN NOUR

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY & RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:   CHANGING REALITIES & THE DECLINING STRATEGIC RELEVANCE OF EGYPT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS BEING AT THE ROOT OF THE GROWING TENSION BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- THE CRITICAL QUESTION:  HAVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO NATION-STATES GROWN TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT THEY OVERRULE THE POSSIBILITY OF A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL U.S.-EGYPTIAN BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP CONTINUING INTO THE FUTURE?

THE REAL STORY OF THE RECENT G-8 CONFERENCE IN LONDON:  ITS MASSIVE EXERCISE OF SELF-DELUSION & ITS FAILURE TO ADDRESS THE GREATEST THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION SINCE GERMANY'S THIRD REICH -- THE G-8 LEADERS' GROSS INCOMPETENCE, THEIR MISDIRECTED & DOWNRIGHT WRONG PRIORITIES & SOLUTIONS, THEIR REFUSAL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE BIGGEST & MOST DANGEROUS PROBLEM FACING AFRICA & THE REST OF THE WORLD IS POLITICAL ISLAM & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD, & THEIR CONSEQUENT FAILURE TO DEVELOP & ANNOUNCE A BROAD RANGE OF PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO PUNISH ANY NATION THAT HARBORS & SUPPORTS THE JIHADISTS

TUNISIA'S POLITICAL FUTURE:  PROSPECTS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL REFORM IN TUNISIA -- A TUNISIAN DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALIST & FOUNDER OF THE MEDITERRANEAN LIBERAL PARTY DISCUSSES HER IDEAS REGARDING THE NEED TO BRING AN END TO TUNISIA'S ONE-PARTY DICTATORSHIP & REPLACE IT WITH A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MULTIPARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM

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