Regime Change

The Syrian Regime and the Opposition

American Anthropological Association | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Arab Uprising, Damascus, Regime Change, Syria Protests, Homs, Refugees, Syria, World News
American Anthropological Association

In other parts of the Arab world there was unity between classes and sects, at least for the duration of the protests in public squares, but this is not the case in Syria.

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Mark Gongloff

What's Roiling The Oil Market Now?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Oil Market, Arab Spring, Regime Change, Syria Oil, Oil Prices, Bashar Assad, James Clapper, Syria Protests, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, Business News

Another falling dictator might soon make a splash in the oil market. The latest domino set to drop in the Middle East appears to be Bashar Assad of...

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Assad's Demise, Iranian Shadows

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Arab League, United States, Iran, Turkey, Regime Change, Middle East, Syria, Assad Tehran, Syria Tehran, Assad Iran, Assad Syria, Syria Iran, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

A general look at the scene suggests six major elements that characterize the current situation in Syria which make it unlikely for Syria's President Assad to stay in power.

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UN Security Council: Don't Let the Syrian Failure Become an Arab Failure

Dr. Peter Wittig | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Libya, Sanctions, Yemen, International Security, Regime Change, Middle East, Germany, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, Veto, Diplomacy, International Relations, Arab Spring, Resolutions, Syria, International Peace and Security, World News
Dr. Peter Wittig

Since spring, a wind of change has been blowing through the Arab world. Last week it again reached the shores of Turtle Bay. But this time it turned into a sudden chill.

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Business Must Consider the Political Risk from Unknown Unknowns

Brad Reid | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Black Swan, Risk Management Committee, Political Risk, Regime Change, Middle East, Unknown Unknowns, Business News
Brad Reid

What and where is the next political risk? A few months ago it seemed almost impossible to predict that a political battle over raising the U.S. feder...

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Conyers: Congress Should Bar U.S. Ground Troops From Libya

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: John Conyers, Libya, Regime Change, War Powers Resolution, Libya War, President Obama, Ground Troops, Libya Ground Troops, World News
Robert Naiman

It's far from inconceivable that we could find ourselves at a fork in the road in the future, as many do not believe the goal of forced regime change in Libya can be accomplished without ground troops.

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Is Obama Really George W. Bush?

Aaron David Miller | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Libya, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Libya, Bush Doctrine, Freedom Agenda, Regime Change, Benghazi, Obama Doctrine, Libya Protests, World News
Aaron David Miller

Has Barack Obama become George W. Bush on foreign policy? If the President doesn't catch a break on Libya, he may well be on a glide path to regime change.

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What Makes A War 'Dumb'?

Ryan McDermott | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Libya, Iraq, Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Middle East, Regime Change, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Politics News
Ryan McDermott

Eight years later, we are still in Iraq. Nine years later, we are still in Afghanistan. And now we are promoting regime change in Libya? Needless to say, I am disillusioned.

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Iran Is the Wild Card in the Arab Awakening, but What About Turkey?

Tulin Daloglu | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: France, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Sarkozy, Regime Change, Libya, Arab League, Obama, Arab Awakening, US, Sunni, World News
Tulin Daloglu

It will be a real problem if Assad's regime survives the threat to its power, and if Turkey continues to do business with them -- as usual.

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The UN Security Council Has Not Authorized Regime Change in Libya

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Security Council, Libya, Regime Change, Libya Civil War, Foreign Policy, United Nations, World News
Robert Naiman

The Security Council has authorized military action necessary to protect civilians. It has not authorized military action to overthrow the Libyan government.

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How to Stop Iran's Nuclear Threat

Alireza Jafarzadeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alireza, Unclench Their Fists, Russia, Los Alamos, Sanctions, Opposition, Yukiya Amano, Iran, Obama, Nuclear, UN Security Council, Jafarzadeh, Policy, Ahmadinejad, State Department, The Iran Threat, Down With Russia, Khamenei, Natanz, Alireza Jafarzadeh, Regime Change, Mek, Washington, Iaea, Mojahedin, Un, Pmoi, Death to Dictator, Palgrave, China, Slidepollajax, World News
Alireza Jafarzadeh

The Iranian opposition movement does not ask for money or arms, much less troops. But it does demand that, at this critical juncture, it not be shut out of the Iran policy debate.

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Hillary Dusts off Iranian Bogeyman...Again

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Shia, Persian Gulf, Arms Sales, Senate Authorization Committee, Politics, Regime Alteration, Houthi, Yemen, Hezbollah, Regime Change, Bahrain, Dictators, World News, Iran, Bogeyman, Robert Gates, Arabs, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Military, Foreign Policy, Sunni, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Sharmine Narwani

When I first read about Washington's new Mideast strategy, I winced at the lack of inventiveness in both the phrase "Regime Alteration" and the idea that we can somehow subvert these popular movements for change.

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Today's Business Headline "Futures Turn Higher Following OPEC News"... Really!?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cnbc, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, World, Saudi Aramco, u.s. Policy, Saudi Arabia, Regime Alteration, North Africa Turmoil, International Energey Agency, Oil, Beltway, Opec, Regime Change, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Blazoned on the top of the CNBC News page was the headline, "US Futures Turn Higher Following OPEC News." The article goes on to advise that OPEC was considering raising production for the first time in two years.

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Two Reaganite Presidents: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama

Andrew Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Triangulation, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Politics, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Regime Change, New Deal, Reaganism, Tea Party, Great Society, Politics News
Andrew Levine

Barack Obama understands the evils of Reaganism even better than Bill Clinton. He also knows what ought to be done and what he, as President, must do to get it done. Shame on him, therefore, all the more.

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Iran Sanctions Don't Work -- Counterproductive and Hurt Ordinary Iranians

Ali Gharib | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran Sanctions, Iran, Regime Change, World News
Ali Gharib

This post originally appeared at LobeLog.com, where Ali blogs daily on U.S.-Iran relations. At the Middle Eastern affairs journal Muftah, Hani Mansou...

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The President's Narrowing Options on Iran

Norm Kurz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sanctions, Iran, Regime Change, Middle East, Tehran, Iran Sanctions, Obama, Mullahs, Biden, World News
Norm Kurz

What can we do while a ruthless Iran intensifies the pace of its efforts to acquire nukes and to silence internal opposition?

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The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nsa, Holocaust, Department of Defense, Doubleday, Mossad, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Intelligence Community, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Dr. Strangelove, Iraq War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Internet, Cia, Regime Change, Institute of World Politics, Tehran, Israel, Leon Panetta, Espionage, World News
Keith Thomson

I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

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Iran and America: The Spirit of 1908

John Ghazvinian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Constitutional Revolution, Iran, 1908, Iranian Revolution, Iran Election, Russia, Britain, Twitter, Shah of Iran, Evangelical Christians, Cossacks, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Federalist Papers, Barack Obama, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Morgan Shuster, Islamic Republic of Iran, Basij, Regime Change, Middle East, Iran Protests, Protest, Tehran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khomeini, Tea Party, World News
John Ghazvinian

Is 101 years a bit far to go back to help us understand what's happening today? Not in Iran.

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Iran Uprising Changes Nuclear Calculus

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nationalism, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Negotiations, Regime-Change, Twitter, Joseph Cirincione, Nuclear Weapons, The Uprising, Economy, President Obama, Leslie Gelb, Right Wing, Iran, Richard Lugar, Iran Election, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Joe Cirincione

Mousavi was always more open to dialogue with the West. If president, his discourse could now include the nuclear program with much less fear of attack.

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The Iraq War in Perspective

Richard N. Haass | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Second Iraq War, Regime Change, Iraq War, Bush Iraq, Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq, War in Iraq, Obama Iraq, World News
Richard N. Haass

The second and still ongoing Iraq war was a war of choice, not necessity. The United States could well have accomplished a change in regime behavior and a change in regime threat without regime change.

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