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Has Obama risked too much on Middle East talks?

8/9/2010

Gordon's latest column - published today in Gulf News - looks at the new Middle East peace process launched in Washington last week. Why is Obama investing credibility in negotiations that almost every informed observer believes are doomed to failure? The column considers several possible reasons.

Fear of the other cripples US

11/8/2010

Politicians on the right who should know better are acting in an irresponsible manner... click here to read Gordon's latest column for Gulf News.

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Expect Little From Washington This Year

31/7/2010

This week's column for Gulf News looks recent events in the US - notably the Shirley Sherrod fiasco - and explains the lesson this mess holds for those of us focused on foreign policy: expect little from the administration beyond crisis management until after November's elections.

US will declare victory and pull out

15/7/2010

Gordon's latest column from Gulf News (published Wednesday) looks at the ways in which our debate over Afghanistan is beginning to sound more and more like debates over Iraq four or five years ago.

Trying to explain the health care debate

28/8/2009

Gordon's column from Wednesday's Gulf News.

This has been the Summer of Anger here in the United States. How does one make sense of that?

Why America's health care debate matters for the Middle East

11/8/2009

Gordon's column from Wednesday's Gulf News:

One might think the health care debate is a purely domestic issue - holding no importance for the Middle East. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Guns in America

3/8/2009

Click here to read Gordon's lead article, published on 31 July in the Weekend Review section of Gulf News.

The article seeks to explain, for foreign readers, America's unique - and uniquely fervent - gun culture.

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Has US accepted a nuclear Iran?

29/7/2009

Gordon's column from Wednesday's Gulf News.

What was most surprising about Hillary Clinton's Iran comments was the lack of reaction they elicited here at home.

Learn from McNamara's follies

16/7/2009

Gordon's column from Wednesday's Gulf News.

Does Robert McNamara's career - and his fate in the decades after he left government - hold any lessons for his successors in the Bush and Obama administrations?

BONUS: Click here, or go to the "Articles" section for Gordon's piece on Michael Jackson from Friday's Gulf News.

Is Barack Obama a liberal?

1/7/2009

Gordon's column from today's Gulf News, published in Dubai:

The US president is probably best described as a figure of the centre-left who believes the country is drifting in his direction.

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