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The Other Meltdown: Little to Show for Huge Defense Budgets (Opinion)
Center for Defense Information - Security Policy Research Organization
The Institute for the Study of Religion Violence and Memory
With the permission of the journal’s publisher, Taylor & Francis, this section of the ISRVM web page will be dedicated to the reviews which have been recently published in the journal.
ComingAnarchy.com
Osama’s “Will” was recently released by a Kuwaiti newspaper. The title of the document is misleading — a will, as a document that distributes assets and property, is not recognized in Islam, as inheritance must take place in accordance with Shariah principles. The document is in fact a final message to his children (not to join Al Qaeda) and wives (don’t remarry!).
Libya/Tripoli/Gaddafi
Refugees United
We are an organisation that offers a safe, secure and anonymous way to find family and friends that you have lost contact with. This service is FREE of charge. Using our search tool, you are able to look for missing friends and family, even though you are far from home.
William Youmans analyzes the debate in Burlington, Vermont, over whether the local cable TV company should or should not carry Al Jazeera English. He concludes that Burlington was a special case, rather than the harbinger of a breakthrough into the US market for AJE.
Arab Media & Society
As GPF noted recently, the ongoing negotiation between Tullow Oil (and backers Total and CNOOC) and the Ugandan Government has serious implications for the future of Uganda, and East Africa as a whole. Following the further discovery of oil in Kenya, East Africa's largest economy, by the same consortium, this article argues that the region’s future will be determined by its contrasting political systems.
Global Policy Forum
Since its founding in 1994, the Middle East Quarterly has become America's most authoritative journal of Middle Eastern affairs. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists turn first to the Quarterly , for in-depth analysis of the rapidly-changing landscape of the world's most volatile region. The Quarterly publishes groundbreaking studies, exclusive interviews, insightful commentary, and hard-hitting reviews that tackle the entire range of contemporary concerns — from politics to economics to culture, across a region that stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan.
Middle East Quarterly - WINTER 2010 VOLUME 17: NUMBER 1
Beyond Intractability - More Constructive Approaches to Destruct
The New Beyond Intractability is organizing a Challenge-oriented, Large-scale, Long-term, Learning (CL3) Community . Through this community, we hope users from myriad backgrounds--civilian government, IGOs and NGOs, business, and the military--from all over the world--will join together to discuss and expand the ideas presented here. By doing so, we will be able to work together to improve the knowledge base, while simultaneously learning how to better address intractable conflict and governance problems at international, national, and local levels.
Leon Festinger shared his brilliance with the world when he, opposing all previous psychological behaviorist work, created the Cognitive Dissonance Theory. In his own words, he quickly sums up this quite complex theory: "If you change a person’s behavior, his thoughts and feelings will change to minimize the dissonance" (Groenveld, 1999, p.1).
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
The Fort Dix plot was inspired by, but not directed by, al-Qaida. The five Muslim conspirators from New Jersey, convicted on conspiracy charges in December, watched jihadi videos.