Highlights of the web today:
Richard Haass, head of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes on "The New Middle East" in an on-line preview from the next issue of Foreign Affairs. (My thoughts on Haass's essay here).
Policy Review offers two relevant pieces. Peter Katzenstein and Robert Keohane, "Anti-Americanisms", offers a preview of their forthcoming edited volume; not all about the Middle East, but they do draw on my chapter about the Arab world included in the volume. And John Rosenthal writes about "The French Path to Jihad."
And Christopher de Bellaigue reviews two books on Iran (Ali Ansari's and Ray Takeyh's) for the New York Review of Books.
Public Agenda's latest Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index (http://www.publicagenda.org/foreignpolicy/index.cfm) shows there is a marked dissatisfaction on immigration. Nearly eight in 10 Americans give the United States low grades (http://www.publicagenda.org/foreignpolicy/foreignpolicy_reportcard.htm) for protecting U.S. borders from illegal immigration. And eight in 10 worry (http://www.publicagenda.org/foreignpolicy/foreignpolicy_worries.htm) that it may be too easy for illegal immigrants to come into the country.
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Posted by: William Hallowell | October 26, 2006 at 01:36 PM