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CIAO DATE: 11/07

The Journal of International Security Affairs

Spring 2007 - Number 12

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• From the Publisher (PDF, 1 page, 59 KB)
  Tom Neumann

• Editor’s Corner (PDF, 2 pages, 64 KB)
  Ilan Berman

The Bush Scorecard

• What War on Terror? (PDF, 7 pages, 181 KB)
  Michael F. Scheuer

  When it comes to counterterrorism, the Administration’s glass is more than half empty

• Reinvigorating Intelligence (PDF, 9 pages, 271 KB)
  John C. Wobensmith & Jeff Smith

  Halting steps toward intelligence reform need to be bolstered and expanded

• Draining the Financial Swamp (PDF, 7 pages, 253 KB)
  Andrew Davenport

  The White House has set its sights on a new financial target: the terror masters

• Making Missile Defense Matter (PDF, 8 pages, 295 KB)
  Henry F. Cooper

  Washington needs to move beyond mediocrity in its protection of the American people

• Nonproliferation, By the Numbers (PDF, 10 pages, 393 KB)
  Henry Sokolski

  Preventing nuclear proliferation has become a distinctly political exercise

• Securing the Home Front (PDF, 10 pages, 448 KB)
  James Jay Carafano

  Under the radar, some quiet homeland security successes

Response

• Russian Democracy, Revisited (PDF, 4 pages, 250 KB)
  Stephen J. Blank

  Why Kremlin accountability is indispensable

Looking Ahead

• The Death of Democracy Promotion? (PDF, 7 pages, 388 KB)
  Ilan Berman

  What the Bush legacy teaches us about the spread of democracy

• Countering Iraq’s Weapon of Mass Effect (PDF, 4 pages, 250 KB)
  Dan O’Shea

  Understanding the strategic impact of kidnappings in Iraq

• Forging an Iran Strategy (PDF, 10 pages, 548 KB)
  David L. Grange et al.

  After Baker-Hamilton, a “Plan B” for dealing with Iran

• The Democratic Moment? (PDF, 10 pages, 624 KB)
  Lawrence J. Haas

  What Democrats need to do in order to seize the national security initiative

Dispatches

• RUSSIA: The Centrality of the Caucasus (PDF, 2 pages, 198 KB)
  Sergei Markedonovs

• GREECE: The Limits of “Europeanization” (PDF, 2 pages, 176 KB)
  Andrew N. Liaropouloss

• GREAT BRITAIN: The Economics of Marginalization (PDF, 2 pages, 176 KB)
  Chris Heaton-Harris

Book Reviews

• Reading Iran Right (PDF, 3 pages, 297 KB)
  Gary Metz

  Mark Bowden explains what the 1979 hostage crisis tells us about dealing with Iran’s ayatollahs

• Demography as Destiny (PDF, 2 pages, 184 KB)
  Christopher Brown

  A prescient warning about the coming upheaval, courtesy of Mark Steyn

• Belly of the Beast (PDF, 2 pages, 185 KB)
  Eric R. Sterner

  Iraq through the eyes of Nir Rosen... and the insurgents

• Continuity, not Change (PDF, 4 pages, 347 KB)
  Mackubin Thomas Owens

  Robert Kagan puts the Bush doctrine in historical context