by editor | Jun 30, 2008 | Afghanistan, Iraq, Politics
by Steven R. Corman I remember arriving in Karlsruhe, Germany on March 17, 2003. It was two days before the Iraq invasion. I didn’t know the date certain of the invasion, of course, but I knew for certain it was coming. I was quite worried (needlessly, as...
by editor | Jun 21, 2008 | Counterterrorism, Intelligence, Politics
by Steven R. Corman As predicted in an earlier post, Hoffman’s counter-tat to Sageman’s response to Hoffman’s panning of Sageman’s book has appeared at Foreign Affairs (below Sageman’s reply). It contains little in the way of new...
by editor | Jun 18, 2008 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Image
by Steven R. Corman On Monday, recently sworn-in Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Jim Glassman published an op-ed piece in the International Herald Tribune. Entitled “The Animosity Does Not Run Deep,” it interprets the latest Pew Research...
by editor | Jun 16, 2008 | Israel
by Steven R. Corman At a conference two and a half years ago I met Sami Hajjar. He was born in Lebanon, and has served in a number of diplomatic posts in the Middle East. Later he was on the faculty at the U.S. Army War College and a member of its Strategic Studies...
by editor | Jun 14, 2008 | Analysis, Iraq, Language, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman During my usual media grazing I ran across an article published yesterday in Aljazeera Magazine by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, in the “reviews” section. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be reviewing, but on the surface it has...