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  • Policy Watch: Putin's BMD game 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-06-15)
    In order to prevent the United States from establishing a ballistic missile defense system aimed at Iran in Poland and the Czech Republic -- which Moscow sees as actually directed against Russia -- Russian President Vladimir ...
  • Policy Watch: Putin's Munich speech 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-02-16)
    "Russian President Vladimir Putin's Feb. 10 speech at the Munich Conference on Security Policy received a lot of press coverage in the West for its criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Less noted in the United States, however, ...
  • Policy Watch: Putin's potemkin alliance 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-03-16)
    "Russian President Vladimir Putin places great store by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional international organization Russia co-founded in 2001 that also includes China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, ...
  • Policy Watch: Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-10-09)
    "A lot of people don't like Hugo Chavez, the elected revolutionary leader of oil-rich Venezuela. At the top of the list, of course, is President George W. Bush, whom Chavez recently described as ""the devil"" in a speech ...
  • Policy Watch: Republican deadline in Iraq 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-11-10)
    "The American public's growing unhappiness with the war in Iraq played a large role in the November 2006 elections that resulted in the Democrats retaking control of both the House and the Senate. The lesson for the ...
  • Policy Watch: Russia's double standards 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-03-09)
    Russian officials and commentators frequently complain that Washington applies double standards regarding its own behavior and Moscow's. America, these Russians claim, calls upon Moscow not to do things that Washington ...
  • Policy Watch: Russia's Estonia ties 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-05-25)
    Russia's response to Estonia's removal of a Soviet World War II war memorial from the center of the Estonian capital of Tallinn to an out-of-the-way military cemetery is outrageous, out of proportion and deeply disturbing. ...
  • Policy Watch: Russia, Algeria and Europe 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-11-27)
    In 2006, Russian-Algerian relations expanded markedly, fueling European fears that Russia and Algeria -- two of the European Union's three principal gas suppliers -- will collude to raise the price which EU countries must ...
  • Policy Watch: Russia, Iran, and the U.N. 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-09-25)
    It is increasingly clear that Russia will not only block a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force against Iran, but also one that imposes serious economic sanctions against it. Here's why: ...
  • Policy Watch: Russia-Iran gas OPEC unlikely 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-02-09)
    "Will a natural gas cartel emerge that will work to increase gas prices, as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries does for oil prices? Fears that this could happen have been fueled by Iranian Supreme Leader ...
  • Policy Watch: Saudi Arabia and Iraq 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-12-15)
    "In a Nov. 29 Washington Post op-ed piece, the well-connected Saudi analyst, Nawaf Obaid, warned that the Kingdom would provide aid to Iraqi Sunnis if American forces withdrew from Iraq. The Saudi Press Agency quickly ...
  • Policy Watch: Saudi-Russian partnership 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-07-23)
    At the time of Russian President Vladimir Putin's February visit to Riyadh, some Russian commentators expressed the view that improved Saudi-Russian ties were occurring at the expense of Saudi relations with America and the West.
  • Policy Watch: The Chavez-Gadhafi link 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-03-30)
    Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi have met on several occasions and put on a show of being great friends and allies. Their friendship, though, appears to have little substance considering that while Chavez ...
  • Policy Watch: The GWOT's Long-Term Cost 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-09-09)
    Whatever the merits of how America pursues the Global War on Terror, America is also paying dearly for it in terms of human casualties as well as money spent on it and not other priorities. These costs, of course, are both ...
  • Policy Watch: Thucydides and America 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-07-29)
    "The History of the Peloponnesian War," by the Greek historian Thucydides, remains one of the classics of international relations even though it was written some 2,500 years ago. The Peloponnesian War, between the Greek ...
  • Policy Watch: Transnational revolution 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-04-06)
    Transnational revolutionary movements seek to promote their brand of revolution not just in one country, but in a group of countries or even the entire world. Nationalist revolutionaries, by contrast, seek to promote ...
  • Policy Watch: U.S.' adversaries and Iraq 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-12-22)
    A great debate is now taking place in the United States over whether to withdraw American forces from Iraq. Ironically, many of America's actual or potential adversaries, which opposed the U.S.-led intervention there in ...
  • Policy Watch: What if Iran acquires nukes? 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-05-04)
    "What would happen if Iran announced that it had acquired nuclear weapons just before the 2008 U.S. presidential elections? To try and find out, I ran a role-playing game with this scenario in my ""War on Terrorism"" class ...
  • Policy Watch: What Maliki's move means 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-11-03)
    "Although he has dropped his ""stay the course"" slogan, President Bush has made clear that he intends to keep American forces in Iraq until they achieve ""victory."" He defines victory to be a peaceful, stable, self-governing ...
  • Policy Watch: What now in Iraq? 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-12-08)
    "The recently released Iraq Study Group report has warned against ""an open-ended commitment to keep large numbers of (U.S.) troops in Iraq."" It calls for the withdrawal of all American combat brigades by early 2008, and ...

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