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From the Editors |
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MER232 |
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The Strategic Logic of the Iraq Blunder |
To hear American politicians and the commercial news media tell it, the greatest military power in world history hastily launched an ill-conceived invasion because of intelligence failures and wishful fantasies of sweets and flowers. It is as if... |
MER239 |
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"The Israel Lobby" in Perspective |
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 82-page paper “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy” has entered the canon of contemporary political culture in the United States. So much, positive and negative, has been written about the... |
MER243 |
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Neo-Conservatives, Hardline Clerics and the Bomb |
Even as the US military launched a long-rumored offensive in the Iraqi city of Falluja in early November 2004, the subject of anxious speculation in Washington was not Iraq, but Iran. President George W. Bush’s victory at the polls on... |
MER233 |
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Iraqi Elections |
Just once, one wishes, events in post-invasion Iraq could transpire without instantly being spun as helping or hurting President George W. Bush. There was no such luck after images of Iraqis cheerfully -- even joyously -- voting in the January 30... |
MER234 |
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Hisham Sharabi |
MERIP mourns the passing in mid-January 2005 of Hisham Sharabi, a formidable thinker and extraordinary teacher who, along with Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, led a generation of activist Palestinian intellectuals who lived and worked in... |
MER234 |
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Running for Cover: The US, World Oil Markets and Iraq |
Last week's panic within the Clinton Administration over a potential winter spike in heating oil prices has greatly eased, as oil prices have begun to fall. The Democrats' political planners feared that Republican candidate George W. Bush... |
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From the Editors |
The Middle East is running out of water. |
MER254 |
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Iraq's Water Woes |
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MER254 |
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Groundswell |
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MER226 |
