Middle East

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National Defense January 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Government Needs to Reexamine Rules for Battlefield Contractors The contractor headcount in Iraq nearly matches U.S. troop strength, which raises questions of whether the private sector's role in combat operations has outpaced regulatory, doctrinal and management practices.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2007 Reena Jana	Online Extra: Abu Dhabi Builds Its Architectural Cred The building boom in the United Arab Emirates capital rivals that of Dubai, but Abu Dhabi is banking on ambitious green architecture.
U.S. Banker December 2007 Karen Krebsbach	The Further Economic Isolation of Iran Washington's ongoing campaign to persuade financial institutions to break ties with Tehran twisted another notch tighter with tough economic sanctions against three state-owned Iranian banks, companies and military organizations.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2007 Neal Sandler	The Crisis in Israel's Classrooms A breakdown in the financially strapped school system in Israel is jeopardizing the country's high-tech edge.
Reason November 2007 Kerry Howley	Reconstruction Mess Could anyone have predicted the failures of reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan? According to a new working paper, the public choice theorist Gordon Tullock did just that -- in 1965.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Robert N. Charette	Open-Source Warfare Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn -- and the West is struggling to keep up. The conflict in Iraq highlights how the open global access to increasingly powerful technological tools is in effect allowing small groups to declare war on nations.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Military Identity Technology Leaps Ahead of Policies To help fight the Iraqi insurgency, the Defense Department has pushed biometric collection technologies into the field. But policies on how best to use them are not fully developed.
Reason October 2007 Michael J. Totten	The Next Iranian Revolution How armed exiles are working to topple Tehran's Islamic Government.
Parameters Autumn 2007 William K. Mooney, Jr.	Stabilizing Lebanon: Peacekeeping or Nation-Building While outside actors have played a major role, the weakness of the Lebanese government lies at the foundation of conflicts within the region.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Rich Duprey	Exchange Deal Seems Foreign The multifaceted Dubai-Nasdaq deal is sure to spark xenophobia and nationalism.
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