Jean David Levitte

The French Connection and Middle East Talks

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, Catherine Ashton, Jean-David Levitte, Benjamin Netanyahu, Quartet, Middle East, Saudi King Abdullah, Tony Blair, Middle East Peace Talks, Hamas, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News
Steve Clemons

Absent at the Middle East stakeholders dinner hosted by Obama was France. When there is a chance of securing a new equilibrium in the Middle East, France should be a core partner.

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Kouchner's Lament: Misunderstanding the Net

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Freedom, Brent Scowcroft, Old Media, Bernard Kouchner, David Addington, Editorial Cartels, Realism, Mainstream Media, Internet, Progressive Realism, Christine Okrent, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jean-David Levitte, The Web, New Media, Cyber-Dissidents, Richard Cheney, Humanitarianism, Pierre Vimont, Politics News
Steve Clemons

The internet today -- despite the occasional bouts of disinformation and invented scandal -- is far more of an effective and immediate marketplace of information than the world for which Bernard Kouchner seems to pine.

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