Democratization Efforts – Mark Silverberg

America’s Middle East Delusions

When Samuel Huntington wrote his 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, many in the

With all the talk of revolutions, the Middle East continues to slip backwards. We see mobs burning buildings, uprisings, coups,

Nicholas Kristof, in his column “Seeking Balance in the Middle East” suggests that Congressional opposition to the forthcoming UN vote

Poverty alone does not cause revolutions. They are caused by thousands of accumulated injustices that, in their totality, push a

According to recent U.N. Arab Human Development Reports, written by an independent group of leading Arab scholars and intellectuals, oil

For the first time in Middle East history, a radical Islamic terrorist organization, the Moslem Brotherhood (through its Palestinian surrogate

In recent local Palestinian elections some 600,000 Palestinians cast their votes for lists associated with the Islamic terrorist group Hamas

While events unfolding in the Middle East would appear to vindicate the broad parameters of the Bush Doctrine – that

The depth of American generosity and compassion for the lost and the devastated in the wake of the recent tsunami

Palestinian elections notwithstanding, it is important for Western leaders to consider whether a democratic Palestinian society can be harvested from