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		<title>Swiss Bankers Banned from Travel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I am as frightened as the next person by the instability that this financial crisis has already inflicted and threatens to intensify, it’s sometimes difficult to contain my delight when something both unexpected and completely out of the ordinary occurs, especially when it is an event that would have been considered outside the realm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=103&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Crisis: The Fragility of “Normalcy”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although this past week screaming headlines about executive bonuses, plummeting markets, and massive job losses have graced the the front pages of the Financial Times, this Tuesday a smaller article below the fold caught my attention. This article described the resurgence of international bartering between governments of countries who are unable to secure credit. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=95&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for the help, Zawahiri</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayman al-Zawahiri&#8217;s recent portrayal of Barack Obama as a &#8216;house Negro&#8217; and Jewish pawn highlights Al-Qaeda&#8217;s current state of anxiety. The election of America’s first multi-ethnic and internationalist president may deal a heavier blow to the group than have the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda, despite the politically potent terrorism tag, exists and operates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=88&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Wait is (Almost) Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This country and the world has not suffered from a lack of discussion of the 2008 presidential election. In fact, news commentators report the lamentations of many Americans who feel this election has gone on long enough. Is a 1.5-2-year referendum on the leadership of the most powerful nation in the world too long? I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=80&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Special Forces Strike in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just tonight I heard that a U.S. Special Forces team crossed into Syria to conduct a raid on a small town near the Syrian/Iraq border. Major General John Kelly states in the AP article that there were concerns with border security and the free flow of militants across the border into Iraq. The article also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=71&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>21st Century Pirates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past two months, Somalia&#8217;s pirates have made the news with a spectacular hijacking of a cargo of Russian tanks on its way to Sudan. Another ship was boarded carrying &#8220;minerals,&#8221; which later made the hijackers and their families sick. The Gulf of Aden creates a perfect geographical funnel to a choke point called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=57&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Domestic Politics and Egypt&#8217;s Nuclear Restraint</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mhealey04</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anwar Sadat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt's Nuclear Program]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the security landscape of the Middle East, Egypt was seen as a prime candidate for nuclear proliferation in the 1960s-70s. Yet, despite intermittent efforts to build a nuclear weapons capacity, Egypt has repeatedly shown nuclear restraint. Its failure to build the bomb remains a puzzle for proliferation experts and International Relations scholars. A more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=44&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Implications of Russian Energy Development &#8211; A Policy Brief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Russian energy sector is characterized by a lack of upstream exploration and development in oil and gas. Outside investment and market penetration problems for foreign companies decrease gains from newer technology and reduce production.      Weak and ageing infrastructure prevents Russia from fully realizing potentialrevenue from productionand transportation of its oil and gas reserves to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=37&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weighing A World of Secrets: Assessing the Utility of Intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of intelligence is a dark, shadowy realm that often eludes even astute outside observers. However, open source channels provide a window into this universe, which allows for the cost-benefit analysis of having a national intelligence community. The utilization of intelligence communities can certainly provide tremendous benefits to a regime, but it comes with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journalsis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5190312&amp;post=7&amp;subd=journalsis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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