...Eid H. Mustafa; El-fatih A. Abdelsalam Successive US administrations, including that of George W. Bush, have not recognized Palestinian interests and demands. The Bush administration initially showed a lack of serious intent to intervene in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and had a negative...

... Washington University. Burton M. Sapin is professor emeritus of political science and international affairs, George Washington University. Major Failures of Process and Judgment: National Security Policy Making in the Bush Administration William H...

... The Bush “Vision” for Palestine: Realistic or Apocalyptic? Nicholas A. Veliotes President George W. Bush unveiled his “vision” for addressing the Palestin- ian issue on 24 June 2002. As he endorsed an eventual...

... War World. The author wishes to give special thanks to Brigid O'Neil for valuable research assistance. Bush’s Wars and the State of Civil Liberties Ivan Eland President George W. Bush, after no weapons of mass destruction were uncov- ered in Iraq, fell back...

.... Bush’s Middle East: Second-Term Blues? Nicholas A. Veliotes As President Bush embarks on his second term, much is being written and spoken about second-term presidents in general looking beyond the narrow confi nes of domestic politics to the wider, hoped-for glory...

...Mohamed A. El-Khawas The essay examines Bush's strategies to democratize Iraq. Failure to draft a plan for Iraq's stabilization led to costly mistakes that drove many Sunnis to join insurgent groups, fueling sectarian strife. Holding multiparty elections was a major accomplishment, but it did...

...Anthony C. E. Quainton As a result of the wars undertaken in Iraq and Afghanistan by the George W. Bush administration, the United States has taken on a responsibility to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of these countries. This responsibility has been carried out through...

.... Yet they have claimed one clear success: Libya's decision to renounce WMD in late 2003. The Bush administration believed that this decision was based largely on fears of US military action. This essay, in contrast, argues that other factors were crucial, notably the impact of years of economic...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Misleading propaganda and the creation of false history were pervasive and corrosive during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Both the Clinton administration and the news media were responsible for the disreputable situation. And unlike the discrediting of the Bush administration’s...

...., have focused American attention on the Arab world more than ever before. The attacks fundamentally altered U.S. attitudes and policy toward the region. The Bush administration quickly blamed the Arab world for 11 September and launched a new, preventive strategy to defend the country against those...

... to the American invasion of Iraq and his toppling in 2003. Unlike in the Desert Storm war of the early 1990s, the United States has occupied Iraq itself, and without a comprehensive Arab policy. The George W. Bush administration, upon taking office in 2001, trumpeted its disdain for the hyperactivity...

....”1 The Bush administration has accused Tehran of using its civilian program as a subterfuge to develop nuclear weap- ons secretly.2 Although the United States, Britain, France, and Germany share com- mon goals, they have not found any agreement over the past three years on the best way...

... to play a key role in global and regional affairs. The China-US relationship has recently come under increasing strain, because Beijing and Washington have different interests and priorities. In particular, they don’t see eye-to-eye on several issues in which the Bush administration has keen...

... for their support on a piece of the action in reconstruction and oil contracts, can become helpful members of a coalition. Allies can share the burden. Their involvement helps legitimize the Bush administration decision to go to war and reduces U.S. footprints. The scars over the past differences between...

... agreements with Israel, threatened to burn half the country, and in 1991 hit Israel with thirty-nine Scud missiles. Whatever their concerns elsewhere, for the Bush administration the Arab- Israeli sector of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict are unique. A clear crisis and a failed process...

... Following the United States–led invasion of Iraq on 25 March 2003, schol- arly discourse shifted from ruminations concerning the effect of the war on terrorism on al Qaeda to preventive wars and their implications for collective security. The new Bush doctrine of preventive war is the source...

... in the Wake of the 11 September Attacks Efstathios T. Fakiolas and Tassos Fakiolas Since the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist bombings, the presi- dent of the United States, George W. Bush, and his close associates have deployed a frame of reference...

... Associates, a security consulting firm located in McLean, Virginia. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 The Iran Conundrum Vincent Cannistraro As the American war in Iraq has steadily deteriorated and sectarian violence has worsened, the Bush...

... for a Constitutional Republic. Section Two Picking Up Pieces at Home and Abroad Restless Empire: Washington’s Goals and Problems in the Islamic Arc Ted Galen Carpenter The Bush administration has pursued an extraordinarily ambitious agenda...

... of the political establishment when he pledged to implement all of the recommendations in the report if he became president. President George W. Bush praised the commissioners and expressed general support for their product but refrained from committing to a wholesale adop- tion of the recommendations...