Obama's Middle East Democracy Problem
Barbara Slavin, Foreign Policy

US mediation may just be a con game
Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star

From proximity to peace?
Editorial, Washington Post

Defense begins with state-building
Editorial, Daily Star

Lobbyists
Doug Bandow, The National Interest

At last, a Turkish military coup that failed
Ibrahim Kalin, Japan Times

The First Moroccan-European Summit
Mohammad el-Ashab, Dar Al-Hayat

European court’s judgment on Cyprus issue legally wrong, politically correct
Orhan Kemal Cengiz, Today’s Zaman

100 days of EU solitude
Bernd Riegert, DW

Try something new: Lift the travel ban
Elena Freyre, Miami Herald

China acts tough in cross-strait issues
Frank Ching, China Post
Iranian President Ahmadinejad Visits Afghanistan
RFE

Fayyad to Biden: Israel's actions undermine prospects for peace
Haaretz

En Égypte, l'avenir sans le raďs n'est plus tabou
Tangi Salaün, Le Figaro

Zimbabwe Sanctions Helping Mugabe
Peter Vermaas, NRC

Somalia Food Aid Bypasses Needy, U.N. Study Says
Jeffrey Gettleman and Neil Macfarquhar, New York Times

La Junta birmana cierra otra puerta a Suu Kyi
El Mundo

Hundreds held in pre-emptive Tibet crackdown
Jane Macartney, Times

India may join Russia in establishing Angarsk nuclear fuel bank
RIA Novosti

Turkey wants concrete steps to send envoy back to US
Today’s Zaman

El Parlamento Europeo condenará "la evitable y cruel muerte" de Zapata
Andreu Missé, El Pais

Seven arrests over alleged plot to kill Swedish cartoonist
Conor Lally and Mary Fitzgerald, Irish Times

Democratic pollsters warn: Obama losing ground on national security
Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy
IRAQUE
Americans Need 'to Just Simply Let Go'
Brian Katulis, Der Spiegel

Good News
Geoffrey Kemp, The National Interest

Irak: premičres leçons des élections législatives
Georges Malbrunot, Le Figaro

AF-PAK
A Civil War Among Afghanistan's Insurgents?
Tim McGirk, Time

Afghan success will reveal if NATO can expand its global role
Richard Weitz, Daily Star

Pakistan: ‘arena’ of the next Cold War
Sajjad Shaukat, Daily Times

A CRISE
Greece Is Not an Island
George A. Papandreou, International Herald Tribune

IMF flunks good governance
Kevin Rafferty, Japan Times

No Credit
John Cassidy, The New Yorker