Point/Counterpoint Is US Policy Igniting Mideast Reform?
November
9, 2005
This
is yet another debate sponsored by IslamOnline.net’s Muslim
Affairs section over the US role in Mideast change. Retired US
Army colonel James L.
Abrahamson and Egyptian international relations
researcher Kareem M. Kamel
disagree on whether the US policy has been promoting
political reform in the Middle East.
You
may also read our live
debate with Abrahamson and Kamel, held on November 14, 2005.
What
do you think of this dialogue? What do you think of the live debate?
Which argument do you support? E-mail us your comments: mideast@islamonline.net*
is a retired US Army colonel and a graduate of the US Military
Academy West Point. He holds advanced degrees in international
relations and history from the University of Geneva’s Graduate
School of International Studies (MA) and Stanford University
(PhD). During the last half of his 27 years of military service,
he taught at the US Military Academy and the US Army War
College. At present he is on the board of and writes for the
Internet journal American
Diplomacy.
Kareem
M. Kamel is an Egyptian
analyst based in Cairo, Egypt. He holds an MA in International
Relations from the American University in Cairo and is
specialized in security studies, decision-making, nuclear
politics, and Middle East politics. He is currently a PhD
candidate at the American University in London, and a teaching
assistant to the Political Science Department at the American
University in Cairo.
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