Javier Solana points out that the situation of Kosovo is unique because it also includes the process of disintegration from Yugoslavia. Who can deny such judicious commentary? It is evident that Southern Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabaj never have been part of Yugoslavia, nor do their inhabitants speak Serbo-Croatian or Albanian. Their history is different. It is that of disintegration from the Soviet Union. The poor Ossetians can’t understand how evident this distinction is and fail to grasp that all disintegration does not lead to the same result, and that what is a reasonable fight in one situation will not be in another. Download PDF Descargar PDF

So goes an old kurdish adage. On a recent visit to Turkey's southeastern city of Van, a Kurdish businessman told me that, "America has just one friend in the Middle East and that is the Kurds. Kurdish people like America because of protecting Kurds in north Iraq. But if America fights Kurds, it will lose Kurdish friends." Download PDF

Tired of Aceh, Afghanistan, Algeria, Chechnya and Kashmir as places to do a spot of jihad? Worried Iraq may be a shrinking market for terrorism, and Pakistan tougher than expected? Consider Thailand - where a little publicized war has raged between Muslim Malay insurgents and Bang-kok's army since 2002. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Russia’s determination to under-mine the U.S. policy in the Middle East may well weaken U.S. power. But opposing punitive sanctions for Iran at the U.N. and endorsing HAMAS is likely to cost Russia dearly. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Since 2003, democratic revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia have dealt stra-tegic blows to the ambition of Russia's leaders to reconstitute the former So-viet empire by retaining political and military suzerainty over their weaker neighbors. But Russia's imperial pre-tensions along its periphery linger. Download PDF

Last Sunday, while returning home from Pakistan aboard Air Force One, President Bush received a telephone call from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The two men dis-cussed several issues that threaten to disrupt U.S.-Russian solidarity in the war on terror--foremost, Russia's dip-lomatic support for Iran in the dis-pute over its nuclear program at the IAEA, and its decision to welcome Hamas, which recently won control of the Palestinian parliament, to Mos-cow. Download PDF

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